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• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  rolling their eyes. The mother wanted to know how students would get food if ... they met with her. They weren't offering money to get in; they and their ... difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  1. When will the snow piles melt? Bragging rights to whoever gets ... aerospace acheivement in the history of aerospace. Back to the question ... of living in an uncertain world." How do you make systems that are so

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  I get to see him regularly. I hadn't seen the other friend in about ... , who was willing (and had enough faith in me!) to give me a calculus ... didn't have to do that) and took me out to get a pedicure (my toenails

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in the same class and left to think about how our fates were still unknown ... going on? WERE WE IN OR NOT? Needless to say, everything our teacher said

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... look like. In a year, I would be in college. I would be exposed to more

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... . Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific question, and then use a measurement device to validate our hypothesis. But

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  's tough to get good outdoor flying weather in New England on a consistent ... :) I think if I try to stereotype, I'm just going to get myself in ... in their seminars) and are open only to freshmen. The seminars offered

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  three feet per second, and in last decade scientists have begun to ... utilized to connect pieces of the colon in patients with Crohn’s disease, or ... near you in less than five years. The translation from bench to bedside

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a ... to colleges that don't usually really get a lot of love, the Zion Bible ... around to getting dressed it was about 2:30 and I put on my SPS Shirt

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  you is to get in and then receive your award.']clearly communicable ... have a spirit summons (mimic tear?) to assist me in various challenges as ... are the latest in a long history of efforts by the Institute to free up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  to one more blogger freebie. In four years of reading the blogs, I don ... freebie in the sense that it requires little effort or thought to write ... about 18.022; I'd like to elaborate a little on my experiences in that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  , my goal up until that time in my life - to get into a good college ... know how to do everything in your current position, but that your new ... them, but in total, it comes out to something like 35-40, hence the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  leave the room when our teacher told us to etherize the rest. In 10th ... become Me In My Last Year of Teenagerhood, and thrilled to find herself ... finish writing a script, and are about to plot your data in a way that you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  cuts in, and it shows the result you'll get when you unfold it. It ... gets an arrow pointing to it saying it's new. I think the design ... into the negative space to bring out paper from nowhere! How does this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  live in East Campus. Who knows, maybe you will even get to pet a cat :O ... world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random ... we are so excited to see your faces in just two days! All of this

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  least five times in the past few months, but never gotten around to ... semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is no real way, however, for me to talk you through exactly how difficult

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  get really angry and stop growing when we put them in 50% heavy water ... I’m not 21, and the people I polled varied in how much they like the taste of alcohol. Is this safe??: 0/10 Probably not -- in addition to the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  very least i’ll get a better sense of what it’s like to work in the space ... how i decided what to do after graduation. this is a condensed version ... interesting systems to build. in general i also just prefer working in smaller

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  ." I could get all linguisticy about how meaning is not conveyed just ... , but if you're in a frosh double, you have to vacate it for next year ... " over and over. If necessary to lighten the mood, finish with one play of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019