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Extracurricular activities
about who you are and how you spend your time outside of schoolwork ... outside of the classroom, choose your activities because they delight -
Next steps
[intro]You made it to the end of our virtual visit experience! We hope it helped you get to know MIT and the students that make this place ... advantage of.[/intro] Tour campus, virtually Follow blogger CJ Q. ’23 as he -
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QuestBridge
-achieving, high-school seniors, regardless of citizenship, to apply to QB partner ... -year Match Scholarship that covers the full cost of attendance, with no parent ... apply. Recommendations: If neither of your QuestBridge recommendations -
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Eating at MIT
eat. Your options If you choose to live in one of the six ... 't use all of their meals can choose to donate them to classmates through a ... delivers to campus!), while the Korean supermarket HMart carries staples of -
MIT visits you
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Biographical & personal information
resources on campus. Citizenship Please select the country of your primary ... bit of information about the people you consider to be your parents in ... or guardians, as well as other members of your household like siblings. -
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Early vs Regular
MIT has two application cycles: Early Action (EA) and Regular Action (RA). What's the difference? Only the dates of the deadlines! It is fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)
this one. :)] The other day I was hanging out with one of my best ... of an undergraduate college degree. My friend, who I love very dearly ... the confined walls of a university and its limiting course requirements -
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The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.
guaranteed admission into a program that grants a Harvard University diploma ... University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in computational materials ... those opportunities unfold in different directions to varying degrees of -
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Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!
Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours ... Netherlands to do a semester at the Technical University of Delft, where I ... ’m not faking it. Everybody’s faking it. Which is just another way of -
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[joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center
Hong Kong had the Octopus card, New York had the MetroCard, and the ... of the MBTA stations, including the Silver Line. He made a post about ... of this done for the London Underground, so I latched onto the idea -
Blog / Academics & Research
neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?
For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge -
Blog / Advice
parallel universe for those feeling dejected
into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same, except for the wet sheen of dejection, weighing upon you alone. But - look up - this parallel universe is also one where art transports you -
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Dissecting emotion what is feeling
is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... out of campus due to COVID. At once it feels like fourteen months has ... not real, because— Two. Here's the context of all this, okay? Two -
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smoke and spice my comfort meal
’s been my Instagram username for the past 2 years. For the entirety of my ... often turned to pakaprow. To me, it brings a sense of comfort like no ... meat stir fry. The sensation of cooking it is always such a riot. Spicy -
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turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye
In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... of my junior year, and I am twenty. There are so many stories I want -
Blog / Academics & Research
“So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*
about the nature of the universe and all that. I’m considering Econ ... A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers -
Blog / Best of the Blogs
the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts
of this four-year university model. These [annotation note="around a ... week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... like a whale lunge feeding']missed them,[/annotation] here’s an index of