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• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  admitted from the waitlist? First: there is a link to the waitlist ... of your college choices. The deadline to complete the form is April 18 ... ? Here are some things you should not do: Fly to campus to make the case in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  present in the world. That's really all there is to it. romance ... ; I'm there less than half the day, and even then, it's mostly to work ... especially, the motto is, "work hard, play hard." How much of each is enough

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  own jargon, too, though it doesn’t seem to have as much. On the first ... four novels, to be read in the first four weeks, with additional craft ... Harvard it is societally easier to major in a humanities field. For example

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  ones I managed to bootleg off the PowerPoint display from my seat in the ... a poetic is). Like chocolate, winter break melts under the hot ... the fact that the reference frame of this sentence is accelerating

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a ... all stayed in the right order. Not a single thing was ever explained to ... more efficient way and tries to change it in the middle. (Trust me, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  02139. My flight was set to leave in the morning from the B terminal of ... . Coincidentally, the room I was placed in (I later moved up to the 8th floor in C ... groceries to rot in the lobby, and I turned around to get my ID from Killian

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly ... Center. And since my postdoc is an MD/PhD and goes to the hospital on ... was cool in the first place, to sit and listen to Professor Sheng talk

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  Berkeley: The number one thing is to be yourself. Take it seriously, but not ... they are meaningful to you. In general, what is meaningful to you ... I looked my interviewer in the eye, blinking away sweat from my

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  close to the chapel (currently under construction). In fact, Maseeh is ... as the Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center) is home to the varsity weight ... 't in the photo. The tiny robot is currently sitting on my desk unopened

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  is, and it reminded me how grateful I am to live in a community where everyone is so happy to live also. Next up was soundcheck for the CPW ... composed the speech mostly in the shower, where inspiration often strikes. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  sentence is to be interpreted literally in the context of “there's so many blog readers in this picture that the probability of your inclusion is ... , however, accurately reflect the views of the author. Much to my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  Part 1 here. *     *     * Rush Holt is in the room, but most ... scientist's role in advocacy is in the first place. Eventually, Dan has to go ... most of us: the PhD physicist-turned-politician, one of two physicists in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting ... Grand Theater in Tacoma. I hopped in my car and drove down I-5. The film ... to have some sense of as much of America's cities and towns as I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  the interview, speak in a manner that is easy to understand, and bring ... description of the current interview process is posted here.  Here in Cambridge ... "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  site to learn more about him. My favortite page is the one on which he ... question. It was a bit weird to be sitting in the same room with the guy who ... happened between people in your life. Maybe most of them come down to one

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  class every student has to take"]GIR[/annotation], and it is (from the ... hands-on lab sections where we got to see the theory in action, and I had ... °, cold air has to be pumped in. But how much, and for how long? Too much

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  .  How could you tell the person who is writing your most important ... lie in bed and stare at the ceiling for a bit, left with enough time to make it to the next interview location, found out that it was in an

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  drive to be doing the most I possibly could be in any given moment. In ... crazy, no overtime, plenty of time in the evenings and on weekends to ... projects was that I was still exploring what I wanted to do in the long run

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  ones I wrote and rewrote the most times. What I’m trying to say in this ... , this is when I wanted to major in math and REALLY cared about competitive ... an admittance to Phillips Exeter, arguably the best high school in the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  proudly brought it to school, got up in front of the class, and spent thirty ... . I was startled to see one of the graduate students in my group there ... felt our way outside, in the dark, and had just found space to breathe

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012