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  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  was in the mood to do. I don't need to tell you that everything seems ... looked tired. I think that I nodded. He gave me a hug. I got in the ... On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  conversation about how Raymond and I are doing, how it's our last semester, what guy someone is dating, how much work someone has. I think that's what I ... anymore. But I think one of the benefits of this time of year is that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... material is "not useful". Notice that I talked about a frosh dichotomy. This ... classes I've taken, is what I can do. I can code, if not terribly well, in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  the first time, and in academia no one teaches you how to do that; she ... received a key that I initially assumed was for my room in the visiting ... research. That dot product is pretty high compared to other things I could do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  chances of MIT were that of a coin flip. But I managed to get in early ... but about the person. Sure MIT's is a shortcut that opens doors, but if ... extensions, I finally handed it in and, to my surprise, I got a 0. Turns out

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  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 ... might be thinking: biking in a city? Why is this deeply psychotic and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  work like that. Truth is, I did just fine. I got A's in 8.022 and 18 ... for the 'extra time' I should have saved. Where did that go? In a single ... throw in a couple of pictures. Since that is my job. These are some of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  across the country!). I’ve participated in HackMIT, which is a large ... : “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in ... best way to deal with this is to find a community at MIT that can become

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head ... , someone who knows their stuff, but not in a way that when you ask how you ... permits, which is something that I enjoy greatly (as I make it not only a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book ... world a better place. And we hope that you share in that excitement. But ... table than a slate of straight As in math and science and a big SAT I Math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  best things that ever happened to me. I realized that a person is NOT ... do. And the whole time, I marveled at how much luck I had that such ... (in other news, i just realized that i have no idea what is good form

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  that were in my eyes, I counted every possible point against me: a 690 on ... talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... 's kind of a big deal. To illustrate that, I invite you to go to Google and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  I owe a lot of that to the fact that I went to MIT. As I've said in ... the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... a rule I don't really pay attention to lists like that, except the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  sure how to represent the enormous beast that is MIT, I figured I'd start ... (although perhaps they do have a language of their own), but I wanted to start ... 'll see what I can do about that) admissions blogger. I think that means

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Court. I was sad because there was a chance that this wouldn't be my life ... getting in, reducing getting into MIT to a coin flip. On the ride home, I ... here resulted in the lowest grade I've ever gotten. Doing preliminary

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... still have half a problem set to do, it’s nice to know that the weekend is ... always bond over how much work that they have to do. It’s an instant

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... as difficult as I expected, and high school is high school even in ... there, after landing, I stayed in Bologna a few days. The second weekend I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  must be a manifestation of Eve’s Original Sin. I think that Pullman is ... partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid ... /minor/major, so I wound up not getting in. I spent a few days scrambling around for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  stove is on a different fuse, and for that we are very lucky. Here’s how ... might not think knowing how to stove-cook oatmeal is a useful skill. I ... Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010