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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  challenge you is an experience most people who come to MIT have never had ... stronger sense of who you are and what you want to do. This is the thing ... attitude out in the world. Because my most recent internships have been

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• FAQ / Transfer

  How much does the transfer application cost?

  The transfer application costs $75. Fee waivers are available for all applicants, domestic and international. You can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT offers need
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  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross ... listening to books. People seem to enjoy what I make and the joy of others ... a pretty serious South Park bender at the time and the art in South

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  hollow is the knowledge that, some day, mom and dad will stop dancing in ... . There is never enough time to spend with the people you love.  I am your ... doesn’t care; I could shield you. There is so much more for you to learn

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to ... involves Einstein, but the other - and the first angle I'll try - is to tell ... things I had done to keep myself occupied in the summer, though it was

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in ... feverishly right up to the deadline date - and submitted, confident in my ... think about most is the fact that I almost didn’t apply. This scares me

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... this Guardian article about inventor culture at MIT, here is the Boston ... ; the Disposable Razor Wind tunnels (invented at MIT in 1896) Radar

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... , I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my ... or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  first students to arrive in the fall and practice twice per day before the ... every day and travel to games on the weekends. As a reminder, this is MIT ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  all the mailing lists you want to stay on because you know mit is going ... 'm running errands in california, like going to the bank and getting my mom's tires rotated, and somewhere in the back of my mind there is a small voice

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  not know her. The man on the stage insists that he is not here to perform--he is simply here to be himself. The musicians behind him slow jam while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  ’m working on right now is the most important thing that I could be doing and ... called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is nose to the paper, pencil poised, ready to race across the page as if

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  home and be able to work through the night. I work in my room, on my ... , learning how to fail and bounce back from it. This is one of the big reasons ... can fall down my priorities list. In the spring semester, I want to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  was hard to deny that MIT does in fact wipe the hard drives of your high ... evolved need to consume nutritious minerals? In either case, the spacial ... to Professor Sadoway, who in all likelihood taught you about the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  just made these really cool things. In the same vein I posted Carlos, the ... accidentally drove the lolriokart into an enormous bank of computers in front of ... , like a Segway, is a self-balancing scooter, but, unlike the Segway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  In case you haven't been on the Internet recently, a music video ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views ... the rest of this post to make sense, you should probably catch up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  see in this moment, the door that didn’t open is just *one* door. It may seem like this door is *the* door. We want to tell you that it is ... heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed ... -it note (it was the second draft, apparently), this: I think it’s safe to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had ... last semester to not be about me, the more i was able to do. so in no ... i never really had senioritis in high school—it was probably the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is ... apparatus is that if you spin a mother around in a circle with her head at the center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013