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• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  Shuli's help, a small switcheroo occurred. So in a few minutes, here are ... correctly, one of the bloggers in our meeting mentioned that they would read the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  didn't even get in on the first try. I had to wait until COVID-19 expanded the program for me in order to get in. And so that's why when I look ... pressure of having a class in order to get things done. Online classes don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which ... , and if your school, as a condition of your enrollment in an AP course ... not to take the test, you do not need to notify us. In other, happier

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Saturday and bouncing out of bed. I love wearing headphones in a hipster ... their parents in the Infinite Corridor - the former are bouncy and the ... Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  INTRO First things first, I have to post this, as promised in an ... earlier entries, both in my personal blog and MIT blog. MIT has certainly ... little knowledge about anything they were about to teach me. In fact

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  Quite a few Fridays ago I locked myself in my room so I could get as ... . There are over 1,000 high school teams nationwide that compete in FIRST. In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  . ------------------------------------- NoOneInParticular wrote: "Would it be inappropriate / discouraged ... ) with a 3.5 gpa (including several B's in math/science), (b) without special accomplishments (such as high school research, or competition in

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  started working in the Sabeti lab at the Broad, my thesis lab. This is the lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab ... always empty except for me). I’m hoping to buy prints of some of my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  Hello again from out in the real world!  It's been a little more than ... more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I did my first tandem skydive while I was back home in Oregon.  I didn

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  , threw my shoes in my backpack, and skated down to the Longfellow bridge ... what very well could have been the longest line ever. I got in it. It ... enough, a line with 2 people in it (as opposed to several hundred, as was

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  mighty in the S-tier. Sometimes classes at MIT feel difficult for the sake ... approximately 1.28% of what was said in lecture, but it was reassuring to know that some of my friends were in the same boat. Lab was a whole 'nother

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  . it's tuesday the 24th and we're waiting outside a house in mid ... , along with a yellow house that stopped me in my tracks. "that looks a lot ... chord in my memory. jeff and i met four years ago in the summer after

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of them and use them for signing in now) with Mac keyboards (thank goodness

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  finally woke up. I sprayed dry shampoo in my hair, and headed to MIT Medical ... him in the basement of the medical building, and Will R. '16 and I got trained in Narcan administration and passed the exam for the session. After

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  ) getting an early start. And that’s where the OME comes in! The Office of ... exactly do students do in Interphase? Well, just about everything normal ... are not, at least in one way, normal. You’re smarter than most of the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  not, in fact, normal "What classes are you taking?" - Our Number System ... . In MIT speak, I'm a CMS/6-3 and this past semester I took 3.091, 21M.011, 18.01, and 8.01L. In non-MIT speak, I'm a double major in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  You're sitting in your living room, one eye on an Agatha Christie ... that there is one puzzle in the universe you have not solved: what did ... life (right? right?) - e-mail her! You're in the mood for a more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  When I tell people that I spent January in Andorra, their first ... compile an FAQ. January in Andorra FAQ What's Andorra? Andorra is a tinnnnnyyy little country in Europe. It's about double the size of Boston by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  in the sense of rushing to try and get an answer. yes, the answers to ... in life. The “things” I think about are vague and amorphous, but all ... figured out before college (or in college) — let me be evidence that you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  /09/06... ------------------------------------- Many people wrote in with concerns about the application tracking portlet ... . ------------------------------------- A few people wrote in asking if I accept personal email and what my ... -by-case basis, because until I'm in the committee room with the rest of my

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006