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• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  son is a go-getter, he'll do fine in any school and especially a public ... ? I noticed that Stanford doesn't look at them, do other schools have a ... (Wyncote, PA): How do you feel about homeschooled students? I'm a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  being a student at MIT. Sorry this post is so long...it's just that I had ... festivals. I'm having a hard time finding an adequate teacher so far in the ... , "I love MIT, but I do have 2 questions. [1] How accessible are the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  it into MIT. My question is that what should I do about my teacher ... in english. My other question is that my school doesnt offer a lot of ... of a sudden a big optional means that an 800 or 790 or whatever is not

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So ... 's library and the number of problems in their life. I developed a general ... indulgence. I read How to Talk to Anyone (a wonderful, wonderful book) when I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  themselves here). The problems are stated in a straightforward fashion, making ... 's hardest problems: In a mathematical competition, 6 problems were posed to ... world send teams of 4-6 high school students to represent their nation in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  ...but I mean that in a good way. It's all in the name of education, right ... harder." (soliciting answers to a question) "I hear one, I hear none. Do I ... . Should we do another!?" And that, my friends, is Jeremy. For even more

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  is the same. With a sigh, I walk into 10-250 and try not to think about ... fears do not really grow. It is just a new day, and we should be able to ... /deepen, and that we will be a more polarized nation. I'm afraid of war with

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  : Yeah, I put up a letter addressed to stalkers in my public folder, and ... obsessed with Oprah.) Also, how being as networked as possible on LinkedIn is ... Tiffany'12 and I went to a coffee-shop-diner-art-gallery that also served

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  dances! All you have to do is move to the music." No. Not me. I'm the ... -white (but still mostly white) gangster I can manage, and join in. That's right ... , something that I never anticipated happening. Ever. I'm on a boat, I'm on a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  rotting fun that I thoroughly enjoyed. I finished it in four days, which is ... Wrapped is unfortunately a little underwhelming, since I use Spotify for < ... my brain. And now that I’m at MIT, I can only occasionally do this

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  floor because our router is in the basement. i wonder if i should do the ... offer at tulip, a start-up in somerville"][/annotation] that i eventually ... advance them at a snail's pace. i made a point last fall in only bringing

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  class starts in five minutes, that she doesn’t really care how I’m doing ... floor of McCormick Hall in Room 239, where I stayed my freshman year, is a ... knew that deviating from a path I knew well could result in becoming

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  ). I could do all that, but there’s a pear clafouti recipe I’m dying to ... -week performance period than I probably normally do in a two-month period. Middle ... workout that day and gosh darnit all I want is some peanut butter and some

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine ... 't worry!" it says. "I'll save you! Stop going to class so that you can do ... how well your classmate is doing. The goal, of course, is to compare his

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  is a biological engineer or a chemist or a physicist, I think about how ... Minor (which to my ear has no direction whatsoever) is a bit much. I do ... history, and I'm glad that it gets played regularly instead of stuffed in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  that I'd leave half-finished? Is it really just a bad fit, or is it just ... a jacket in months, like a gentle reminder that summer is ending. The ... , maybe the reality is that I'll never be interested in classes. Maybe I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  8.13 is an 18 unit class, but I consistently felt that this was a ... plots in python? You do now. Don’t know how to fit data to a model? You do now. Don’t know how what a 𝜒² value is? You do now. As someone

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been in that half several times now, and i'm lucky that i've never really ... bad, in a felt sense. i've been having more and more vivid dreams

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  [annotation note="I recently learned that a holograph is a document written in ... in a place like Cambridge where paying with cash is a hassle. If I go ... how I'm always chewing gum. This is because in high school, I was always

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  job opportunity that I had always been looking for (a job in an ... valedictorian? No. Did I do research in a laboratory? No. Did I win science ... is only a week ahead, so I thought I would share some of the things I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015