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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  'll get to do things at MIT/in Boston that I've wanted to do forever - like visit the Museum of Fine Arts, learn how to make data visualizations like this one, get back to dancing a lot, and more. I've already started on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  nice and dry-- but I was looking for puddles to jump in! There is nothing ... to see who will donate the most money. I dropped by their table in ... . The volunteers who recorded my donation to the PSC in lobby 10 said that

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  quantity to crowd out interest in the common good. Because when you get to ... to do. In simple terms, we want students to pursue the things that ... that are educationally sound for them to best prepare them to succeed in

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  keep us up-to-date with any news in your life. This is not required nor ... I was deferred? If you call in, we will not be able to tell you "the ... applications any school (including MIT) would love to have in their student body

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  have to nullify any part of any experience. just because i am calm in a ... now. in some world, i would graduate from MIT, and go to graduate school ... will be okay. or in a different world, i would graduate from MIT and get

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  because it's hard to get your brain together when you're in panic mode. So ... times like these I need to know I'm not alone in how I am feeling. I was ... extracurriculars, the negatives and the tragedies all add up to be, in a way

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  arena in Indian Trail. Lucikly, I was able to get there just in time for ... myself mentally and physically fit to compete was one giant monster in and ... might be more fun to show you my week in pictures (mostly taken from my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  scarier is how badly you want to get in but knowing everybody else wants it ... getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple ... 'm sitting here, freaking out about how I didn't "get in." Well guess what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  SO HAPPY, but there wasn't much energy in me to get overly happy as ... necessary to post the cute caterpillar in order to perfectly emulate my ... and wonderful people in the world, some of which are also going to MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  've practiced yet, or when the interview was. I started to get little bunches in ... pleased with how I did and was really, really nervous to get the decisions ... how to approach a problem and get childishly giddy when I figure it out

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  musicians in a very disconnected way, like how teenagers admire fictional ... ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film ... form characters and worlds and stories in my head that have yet to be

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  yet know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT ... communities in different ways, from tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good friend. Describe one way in which you have contributed to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• 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 ... how to CPW. What makes CPW special (a partial list): It’s nerd ... . We all get to see MIT through your eyes as the wonderful, bizzarre, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  IN SALEM!! I didn't get to meet either of them though :( (4) Gratitude ... families during our time here in Germany, and I can't begin to say how ... flurry of good-byes, hugs, and promises to keep in touch. But even those

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  existed in my high school is defeated here, that I have no reason to avoid ... isn't like me. Not like me in the sense that had we gone to the same ... , my roommate needs me") to get out as fast as possible. I tried to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  'll have to turn in several blank answers because you don't have time to get ... assignments" that you get in high school. Big differences between psets and ... )...parts to the same problem - so in actuality you are doing like 20 smaller

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  as it is now. Getting adjusted to fully in-person life on campus ... . That's what really gets to me. Clearly, there's half the class out there ... remember how insane MIT actually is. In a lot of ways, though, it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  ’s-eye pictures of it, which I was unable to get as I am not, in fact, a bird (as ... lecture, and with my exceptional ability to get lost in any and all circumstances, I figured wandering around in order to get a better shot was

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  minuet dance lesson for us to get us more in that baroque mood. 21M.500 ... parties, a floor-sponsored trip to some island in the middle of Boston ... asked us to perform some of Bach's greatest hits in class, mostly from the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  recommendation gets to MIT before anything else?" I'd like to answer all questions ... 'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes ... things that you'd like to include in your application, but that don't fit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007