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Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…
once - there is an iterative process in which many applications are seen several times by various committees. In other words, an application is ... 's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how -
Blog / Admissions
Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…
applicant. I'll tell you right up front that I attribute my success in grad ... my AP's were in science! That's a true story.) I was ranked 11th in my ... in 8.02x (Physics: E&M) from freshman year. I had a lot of classes -
FAQ / First-year application
What should I do if I’m deferred?
your application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your application stand. Simply sending in -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year
We are very sentimental people. Not like the keeps-every-birthday-card-in ... -the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high school, because our mom kept us in check organiztion wise (read: she threw -
FAQ / International applicants
Am I domestic or international if I hold dual citizenship?
international in our application process. We don't have any preference as to which -
Blog / MISTI
Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog
English that I wrote it in to the typical Russian they publish in, but the ... thinking about an article about foreigners living in St. Petersburg. So I ... first published on http://dfactorial.tumblr.com I wrote an article about -
Blog / Academics & Research
LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.
I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.) -
Blog / Admissions
Match Game
applications. Unfortunately, I missed another classic IAP event last night: the ... .70/2.007 robotics competition, 6.270 throws in an interesting twist: the robots must be autonomous. The competition is so popular, they hold it in the 1200 -
Blog / Announcements
The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live
can describe, in 250 words or fewer, any extenuating circumstances that ... I'm writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can -
Blog / Personal Travel
Leaving home…
years to prepare for that. But I suppose you could say that in all of the ... resilient. I snapped out of pondering in a couple of minutes and quickly ... [I'm at MIT now, but wrote this entry earlier today while still -
Blog / MIT Life
A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious
Typed out notes in review: I wrote this two weeks ago I apologize for my handwriting Ceri's post is here I am also very inspired by Lydia K. '14's posts like her Dragons post. I really -
Blog / MIT Life
Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."
to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... a train in Switzerland. I was worried about finding a replacement ... that in mind, I looked up the word for "umbrella" in Google translator -
Blog / Admissions
Doogie Howser, et al.
successful college/MIT student? I'll be happy to answer any questions left in ... blindfolded? Can they go a whole night speaking only in palindromes? These ... "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply -
Blog / MIT Life
Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.
simply enjoy life. For those who don’t l know, I come from a town in ... personal book challenge that I’ll blog about in a few weeks!) snacks, my ... Portland, and I exited the train in a nervous hurry thinking I was going to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.
Center, countless Biology graduate students in buildings 56 and 68, the campus police, both parallels of East Campus, and somebody in a chicken ... know is interested in joining, let us know at marching underscore band at -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!
Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will ... House as 6 different dorms - New House, iHouse, and 4 cultural houses). The DVD comes in a nifty little graphic-intensive booklet with all the -
Blog / Miscellaneous
World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.
was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population ... Street, the North End's main drag, had to be closed to traffic. You can see ... an Italian victory in World Cup soccer. It would be hard to imagine -
Blog / IAP
a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that
the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... . Not 30 minutes later, I found myself stuck (yes, stuck.) in the bathroom ... in the upstairs restroom.” Suddenly, I heard a storm of footsteps up -
Blog / Admissions
The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13
, I'll instead attempt to demonstrate the part of MIT that can't be ... few hours blurred, but I'm fairly certain I toured East Campus in that ... conclusion to a CPW entry, it's not something I'm capable of writing, so in its