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  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  difficult. Most students who applied to MIT this year were excellent matches for MIT, and most were extremely qualified. Our task is to choose from ... weeks to come. In the meantime, we'll provide open threads today for all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  others. The interview is an opportunity for you to convey that, for us to get to know you more off-the-paper. This is not a business school ... MIT to the interview. I believe that we as ECs are often the most direct

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  a big deal.    in fact, most of the point of life is that ... and decide, in the end, what happens, happens. yes, it is okay to plan ... truth is, happiness is perhaps the most welcoming feeling in the world. it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  listen in on random seminars and take the longer route home. Most ... , where everything is saturated and the world feels surreal in a wonderful ... we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  ’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... on our project. The most important thing I love about my hosts and pod

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  training wheels of the class helped. I learned to think in terms of change ... meaning in the everyday arcs of human experience. But still, I struggled. I ... find ways to drive action, create drama, all in a theatrically compelling

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  understand how much the onus is on me to look out for and take care of myself ... . How to do growth accounting Learned this in 14.05, the intermediate ... able to use mathematical models to explain patterns in the world. I think

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  get access to our own machine shop, laboratory, and lounge in the ... biggest building in the world by volume. It's perhaps difficult to visualize how big the 747 is until you realize that this was the plane selected to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  use “I” too much? The essay is about you, but it’s also about the people ... 50” college essays. I did that too much. As if comparing my work to the ... had one paragraph dedicated to parks in the fall and one dedicated to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  [/annotation]-- more content to come soon!! As background, 6.009 is "Fundamentals of Programming," the[annotation note="Why is it the second if the course name says fundamentals? Good question! ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯"]second[/annotation]class in the computer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  about often in order to function and go about your daily life, the way ... Charles River is in front of me. There is a chip in the sidewalk. And ... friends, Netsanet (name changed) is an Ethiopian born in the United States

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  [annotation note="Misheel: it is important to contrast the need for dfs in ... upshot of this is that they end up being available mostly to the students ... other people in the department without too much background prior to coming

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  our perpetual battle with the mit weather machine spinning arts needs a shaman

  

  costumes soaked in sweat and tears and mostly rainwater. As wonderful as the ... during CPW fireshow. In fact, the last time we did not have a rain threat ... puddles and the piss of Zeus himself with only the fire of their props to

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... in this case being the 1E cats" - credit for caption and images goes to ... courtyard is beautiful in the fall. Notice the Boston skyline peeking through

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  in 20 minutes late, but Amtrak was nice enough to hold the following ... in eight minutes--and Stephen Colbert is paradise enow. In the interest ... DID YOU KNOW? Pennyslvania leads the country in mushroom production

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  when it comes to losing the most important person in your life, there is ... that long ago that I was 17 and applying to college, the truth is that in ... got to hang out with Beyonce in the time since I was that age. I can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  is geared mostly for people who want to work as engineers in the high ... of the most intense and time-consuming classes in Course 6, is a course ... require the student to study a particular area in depth, which might be the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  and navigating the world is one I believe most people try to utilize ... , the word Rule is capitalized when referring to the November Rule in ... ’re in. For MIT, this number is meant to coincide with the number of hours

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there has been one and only one answer to every question. The reason to do a problem was to get the answer. What about the answer? Why does it even

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  universe. Teams fix a device in the intro round to access the MMO. Power is ... is known as the [annotation note='Dan Katz notes in a comment to his ... the puzzle to solve to the answer. This is the stage in which the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021