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  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  gaps in my mathematical background, and I'm way better off for it." How ... deadline?" or "how many letters of recommendation do I need?" Please ask the ... in Economics, and I'd love to attend a school that is strongly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  compassion as I can. You share so much of yourselves with us in the application ... extensively on this website and in many blog posts. Plus, you wouldn’t want any ... .) Instead, this post is about how I, as a person, interact with that process

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  in between. We can't wait to welcome them to campus to join the 4 ... available at > > > decisions.mit.edu < < < You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body ... money. But that day, after talking to many of them, I realized how they ... startups to make returns. As an entrepreneur, being in their good graces and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... reading americanah. everyone in the book is a caricature and i love it. a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  busy... and classes haven't even started yet. In the past three days, I ... can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online retailer of my choice. In other news, Mitra recently acquired a free i

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  After 8 months, I was finally in. In the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... means I'll have to swing by the shop to make something awesome so I can ... light! I didn't take picture of the whole process, but I can walk you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... happy that I live in a dorm that can mobilize within 24 hours, to go from ... admit that I was despairing a little. There are almost 300 people in New

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  identities. So all in all, not a bad summer. I'm not sure how this upcoming ... time it looks like this: Luckily I've been in a super supportive ... myself immensely! :) In my free time I also broke out my tablet and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , because I forgot the mat in Connecticut a screwdriver with many many ... embroidery floss! in all sorts of [annotation note="I have a weakness for color ... I smile a little at the family-unit-energy of everyone running around

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  still send in supplementary materials and, if so, until what date can I do ... 't circle any, but in the titles put how many years I've been practicing the ... letter of recommendation with my birthdate? Also, how can I make sure the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... attended orientation/put my luggage in Burton-Conner, the dorm at which I was ... food itself (I admit to eating chocolate-dipped Oreos alone in a corner

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  by one. I don’t buy from those stores, even in Boston.  I run by the ... gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry ... windows to keep out the heat. I mean — obviously. In Arizona it’s hostile

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  outside, staring in unbroken awe at the air. I don’t know how long it took ... is that I can feel how much I’ve grown since then. You wouldn’t believe ... ’s coming. In its own way, MIT is a conundrum. You can’t always tell how

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  .” I was surprised how naturally I transitioned into MIT life, in my head ... . That’s why CPW (and the Admissions blogs, if you can’t visit in person ... major. In 2015, as a crimson- and short-haired freshman with glasses, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  , 6, or 18. This is how I imagine the career fair going for my friends ... to go into tech - I'm interested in digital marketing and transmedia ... company at least once to see if I might be interested in them, or them in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  It's so nice to be graduated -- I can make lists of things that I ... that I did. In an obvious sense, money is good, and I've always felt that ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  idea that the fish in my bucket are the ones I want, and I can't get ... from something I still don't understand in the Media Lab, is coming back ... in attendance. I was in the room with the entire admissions Illuminati

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  then. And though I still can't grow a decent beard, oh how the times have ... thought of MIT because they'd find it fun too? I actually do believe in viral marketing, which is to say that I believe promotions can be as fun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  somewhere in the sky, and when I got home I invested in a big, dark green ... buy a year later as post-exam consolation presents. I got a campus tour ... climbed things. I participated in a protest. I met amazing people. I rocked

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012