Search
Search Results
-
-
Blog / Admissions
International Selection Day 1
*Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... a selection committee meeting: it was the first day of international ... conclude selection of the international class. Relatedly, I had a great -
Blog / Admissions
RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)
fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango ... Castle (one of 13 Indian restaurants within a mile of MIT, according to ... . Tonight, I'm going to a screening of the Oscar-nominated short films at the -
Blog / Admissions
Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.
year. It's another strong applicant class. The reading of domestic (US ... action) for the MIT Class of 2009! Selection committee will continue for about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including -
Blog / Admissions
Don’t believe everything that you read
Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you achieve 2 of the 5 you are in. 1. USAMO 2. ISEF 3. 1600 4. 4.0 (unweighted -
Blog / Events
Normalville
Fellowship Of The Duck Cookie Monster Dogs Playing Poker An Ax to Grind ... to start solving the puzzles... We had a wall full of unsolved puzzles to work through. Of course, we also solved many -
Blog / Admissions
First read
Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of ... makes a good summary of an application. I just finished reading and -
FAQ / International applicants
What if I don’t have a school counselor?
school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it ... . Because school systems vary outside of the U.S. and many international ... /principal to upload your official transcript (with three years of subject grades -
FAQ / International applicants
How do international students apply to MIT?
to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications ... comfortable evaluating your application in context. A committee of experienced ... application will be reviewed within the context of the resources available to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals
='this review provided by the father of one of my friends. Incidentally, the phrase "one of my friends’ dads" feels very natural when spoken, but ... few years, I've been in charge of many a thing, between music directing -
Blog / Classes
meandering my nonlinear academic path so far
, two change of majors forms, and many advisor meetings initiated by ... make my visions a reality. I actually wrote 6.3 instead of 6-3. Thank ... had looked up an official MIT website of some sorts before writing this -
Blog / MIT Life
Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land
resident of [annotation note="third floor of the east parallel of the dorm East Campus"]Tetazoo[/annotation] and a resident of [annotation note="second floor of the west parallel of East Campus"]Putz[/annotation] swap rooms -
Blog / Extracurriculars
books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions
One of my 2020 resolutions was reading 10 books, and I just completed this goal last week! I think by the end of 2020 I’ll have read a little more than 10 books as I’m in the middle of reading an eleventh book -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this
that sort of analysis is too rigorous for this blog post, and also too ... of post for restaurants before we all got kicked out of Cambridge, but ... permanently humongous backlog of video games that I barely manage to make a dent -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS
reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day. We had bathrooms on every floor of the dorm building, and they all ... went to the bathroom on our floor, found the guy at the end of the -
Blog / Events
Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works
. Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and discussion, between me and one of my friends. We're nerds who like to stay up ... false. Believe at your own risk. The Question: A couple of weeks ago -
Blog / Academics & Research
TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!
professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... and sends pictures of the sky for signs of exoplanets. [caption id -
Blog / Uncategorized
Collections Simple
things I have been doing both inside and outside the confines of MIT. I ... I once did. I don't think as deeply about the opinions of the people around me, or even the opinions I have of others. I am currently taking 9 -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
making art for fun what a crazy concept!
When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first ... feeling a bit of déjà vu and lasting trauma from college application essays ... an “Institute of Technology.” Having been talking to other class of -
Blog / Challenges
bumpers a revelation i had while bowling
bad about asking my company to spend a lot of money on me, I decided to only stay here for one night. I got up at the crack! of! dawn! to catch my seven a.m. flight to DCA, which is one of three airports that serves
