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[intro]MIT students are as creative in the studio and on stage as they are in the lab. More than half of undergrads enroll in arts and ... name a few. Tune in below to watch the MIT Video Game Orchestra in their -
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The application The first-year application is closed in the MIT ... to be completed online. Creative portfolios in SlideRoom are available ... ) Early Action applicants will receive an admissions decision in mid -
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“day in the life of an MIT student” looks like for them—and that's part ... know them yourself? Student perspectives Explore a day in the Life of MIT -
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[/annotation] of the Class of 2028. You may also be interested in this post from our ... http://iso.mit.edu/about/statistics.shtml. Socioeconomic Status First generation in their family to attend college 20 -
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10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.
-yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you want in!” emails I've gotten over these past few months. My family eats ... Central Jersey, I can’t help but reminisce about 1st semester and MIT. I can -
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November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction
month later. Two Novembers 1st's ago, I visited the Google office in ... , simpler dream. To just do the absolute best I can do in whatever I end up ... . I spent days after I submitted my application pacing back and forth in -
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An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.
I can understand this paragraph. After confessing this to myself, it ... minutes. Ex: I couldn't find your room because all the floors in Mc ... “run away from this as fast as you can.” Ex: I hear that East Campus -
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How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge
time. (Despite the fact that usually I can barely see the top.) How it ... autopilot while describing in detail how to stain a block of wood, and that I ... mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was -
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The end of a chapter
England. It feels somewhat surreal how time flew by so quickly! I am now a ... my year abroad and now, I can’t take some of the classes I really want ... a disease, in my mind I think of the mechanisms of infection -
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Race Against Myself Learning how to walk
worse. In 1st grade, I read this story called The Tortoise and the Hare ... In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in -
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Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who
processes. It's incredible how MIT supports all this in the first place, and I ... 'll explain this in analogy to how movies are made. We can divide the Hunt into ... longa. Can I say how awesome these names are?"]the most important ones -
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Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.
bicycle (wikimedia)I began commuting by bike when I was in college, taking ... rusty to boot, I quickly fell in love with biking as a means of ... about 35-40 minutes of a workout in the morning and afternoon. I arrive at -
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[Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25
concentration of college students. There are more colleges than I can count in the ... -school-senior-me didn’t know how to answer. So I gave the only response I knew for sure: “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in -
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How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in
on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... physics... and a 450 in writing. (Note: Adam and I are always warring about ... . (Adam: "Tell them I got 21st [at Junior Olympics] my first year, and ask