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FAQ / First-year application
How does the MIT admissions process work?
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FAQ / Life and culture
How does one attain a Pirate License?
arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate—but students that complete courses in archery, pistol shooting, sailing, and -
FAQ / First-year application
May high school juniors apply?
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Blog / MIT Life
sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)
responsibilities in a couple different clubs was too much. it's been mostly a ... (x/2) of them are getting done; a semester of scraping by in everything ... 1.30 am) just to turn in floor(x/2) of my assignments. some days are -
Blog / Admissions
CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!
, I am cool enough to now say, “I am enrolled at MIT!” In fact, I just ... doors in the infinite corridor until I found: After the chat group ... that all of the admissions officers were in the student center. We didn -
Blog / Hacks
Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…
Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... easiest question: Pete: Where in NJ are you from? I'm from Middletown, New Jersey. It's in Monmouth County, in the central shore region of the state -
Blog / Uncategorized
things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten
on couches, bothering my roommates, and contemplating life in this pandemic. In an effort to, well, not do this, I've been revisiting some old ... just the lighthearted nature of the show mixed in with a darker, deeper -
Blog / Internships & Externships
Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!
you to my team, Team 12. I worked in a team of four other TNTs and two ... have accomplished so much and grown in ways that I cannot even describe. Week 0 In the first week of the program, we were paired with another team -
Blog / Miscellaneous
a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018
kind of stuff but some algorithms are just bad. Not just bad in the sense ... inevitably care for me in my old age to play music that I actually like. ... ): Blogger: Me First song listened to in 2018: "m.A.A.d city" by -
Blog / Challenges
Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo
building 38 is, because all the buildings in the 30s are in a completely ... Pirate Certificate - 25% complete. Turns out that you can in fact get PE ... -shirts rained down on me much more abundantly in freshman year. I don’t think I -
Blog / Academics & Research
What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month
up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say ... the Bedford VA, a national leader in supporting the higher education of veterans, in collaboration with Bowie State University, Maryland’s oldest -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men
in the wrong direction, I saw Random Hall for the first time. As I ... -story structure just across the street, with balconies jutting outwards, bearing in ... -lost enough to tread memory lane, at least two events stand out in my mind -
Blog / MIT Life
Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."
this reflects a general trend in my life, or is just a phase) so here ... sitting in the kitchen at 6am, one hand writing an equation to show that the ... Nov 3: I ended up in an ambulance, then at Cambridge Hospital, then -
Blog / Admissions
MY college essay 498 words of angst.
-dropping in its home makeover-like looks). Do you know anything about it? (JKim ... . I feel like it was used in some previous i3 publication (the handbook ... , custom fish tanks, are allowed in these dorms if they meet safety -
Blog / Challenges
senioritis i wish i had no work today
fascinating algorithms class, taught by two of the biggest names in the budding ... project. 18.704 seminar in algebra. seminars are this mit math department ... interesting book, but i'm more interested in the categorical parts of the class -
Blog / Miscellaneous
on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.
are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point ... [/annotation] in something else I dunno — and preemptively held it up to anyone I ... lived in St. Louis, the question probably meant what my ethnicity was or -
Blog / How to Human
why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness
Recently, my friend rejected several people who were interested in ... 've also known this friend to be pretty honest with me, and in the past, he ... self-knowledge extends to domains besides romance. In fact, it permeates -
Blog / IAP
IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool
scheduled around psets or paid for in punted psets. One such spontaneous ... "sure, why not?" In fact, I was labouring under the very mistaken ... choice for several trips I took to Boston in high school, and we never got -
Blog / Admissions
Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2
in October, I was scrolling through the @mitadmissions feed when I came ... flashed in my head. The problem was I didn’t actually know what the exact ... message to Angela asking if she would be interested in potentially working