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  school student and want to go to MIT. Tell me how to get in.” I just write it off and never think about it again. Sorry, “How do I get in” is a ... amount of work you're capable of. “What SAT score do I need to get in

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  FOOD in bright red text. To be fair these posters are targeted to ... advice is to make a list of the classes that you're interested in finishing ... ; For anyone that's used the elevators in Stata this is a common sight

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to ... loved getting to know over the course of IAP! Maya and I worked together ... restaurant. It was challenging to get onboarded, learn background information

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these ... each celebrity, saying, "Come to us! Come meet us! We're super cool!" Get ... , hot hour just to get inside. Now, being a freshman, going to the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  . In early January, I realized that even though I could return to and ... past 8 years in the Navy, I wanted to be closer to my family while I ... how to answer this came from the Yale Admissions Podcast, which is an

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in ... kind to Rosalind. I'm ashamed to say that I didn't even realize how good ... access to Rosalind's data and photographs in slightly sketchy ways- not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time ... Flag Campaign to demonstrate how interpersonal violence affects our ... : students get many opportunities to donate blood on campus. Seen from the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  'm pretty sure now that there isn't any other way to get it in your head. So ... .) In fact, to me, change was the point- I actually never seriously considered attending any schools on the West Coast, because I wanted to get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... . ------------------------ He-Who-Does-Not-Want-To-Be-Named wrote: "I got really bad scores in my SAT I. A 720 in Math is NOT MIT material. If I do get 750-800 in Math

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  myself to not let myself get buried so far in my classwork that I don ... baked (here's the recipe, in case your mouth just started watering!). To ... preserved monument to Cambridge's role in this very early stage of the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We ... hard as we made it out to be in our heads—we just patiently followed the ... getting me out of bed, among other things that the cube gets me through in

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  to do well in Orgo? It's supposed to be the most basic of all my ... 'm getting a far better grade in 7.05 than 5.12) - but I'm seriously struggling ... know that he graduated first? =p). For some reason (to be discussed in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  guy who I’d taught how to weld, a nice student, good at taking criticism ... pattern, one I still haven’t figured out a response to. In machine shops, I ... thought to myself, “That won't be me.”  I am known, on occasion, to sit in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of numbers in some random order (say 3, 19, 2, 17, 14, 4) and I wanted you to ... ? 6.046 is the kind of class that teaches you how to use this broken

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  for all of us in this technological age to occasionally turn off our phones and unplug our Ipods at key moments in the day to fully engage in ... these tools in better ways in the future. The message was: how can we even

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  in our lives—in this case, how to communicate more effectively via ... startups and how to make them work, especially the writings of Paul Graham, who I'll get to later. So clearly, you can tell Adam’s been

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  longer my cup of tea. Also we get to grow microorganisms in mud and water ... people or how to chameleon in various social situations. I have a lot of ... 've been in a while. Sometimes I'm afraid that I'm not 'MIT' enough to blog

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  Is this you? Are you an MIT student who can't get in on the October ... get to go up to them and say, "Boy, that really was the bee's knees ... how Chiron, the wisest of the centaurs, would have wanted his legacy to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email ... expected to understand this alphabet soup. Once you get here, though, you’re forced to dip your spoon in and search for the right letter (or combination

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written ... are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a ... people tend to get lower grades first term at MIT than they've ever gotten

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006