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• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  require a deposit to secure your spot. If you get into MIT later in May, and ... waitlist in the past few years, we admitted very few this year (due to the ... personal decision - the answer to question #2 may help you to decide. 2) How

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  Before I get to an actual point in my next post, let me say this: I ... lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my ... 't cook to save my life. I was dead set on living in a dorm with a dining

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  basically is looking for? And how can I actually get to catch the eye of the ... testing services to get us January scores in time (although often it works ... plenty of time to get your transcripts in prior to the March 15th transfer

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even ... still in Boston. To their third objection, I smugly pointed out that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of ... great resources so don’t be afraid to ask them about their experiences. In ... , so don't be afraid to ask for their opinions...they know exactly how

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  going to win? "Here is my schedule. I just can't seem to get the times ... Complex Problems Intro to Numerical Simulation in Electrical Engineering ... . Since MIT lives in numbers instead of words, the next step is to gather

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  she talks about her internship in China and how “it's never too late to ... yourselves. There is so much to do here, so much to get involved in, and so ... to tell us how you handled a situation in which things did not go

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  knowing how to apply it to an exam question. (Prefrosh, take note of this.) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done ... summer means I get to do research! About a week ago, I officially confirmed

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get ... enough to yet be materialized as a concrete “you’re in!” or “we regret to ... was ranting to me about how stressed the workload was making him, and so

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  can be attributed to how course selection in college is a double ... how college has led me to not pressure myself to stay in one lane or ... , the upcoming experience I hope to get in the spring semester will be

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  later?). My roommate also just proposed that we figure out how to simulate ... how to do most things. However, a lot of people are confident that they know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  's application, no matter how strong, isn't enough to get one accepted. We deferred ... Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I ... impact an essay can have. I just wanted to clarify my last post in case I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  at that time, but I asked my friend Tiffany L. '24 to get a strawberry ... settled: I needed to learn how to crochet so that I could make stuffed ... how to crochet to one of my direct supervisors, which was how I found

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  general or how to get one? (Thanks to Anjana for help with the title. I ... million to the alliance. It was really cool to see our research getting ... here at MIT. The way I managed to get this one is I emailed a lot of

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  Track teams here at the ‘tute, in which I get to hang out with some of the ... selected for GEL learn how to best tackle working in a group and take ... , “typical” doesn’t describe anyone here, and in GEL I’m going to learn how to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  flu virus or cold gets passed around. Every now and then a game has to ... , which is typical in Guild, but it was all stuff that we expected to happen ... —players started running around trying to get their plots done—and then game

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  confused applicants. I'm not going to tell you how to get into MIT. That ... players' average skill level. It's super easy to get involved in any IM ... AP classes, this resulted in a lot of people struggling to get by. B

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  , we all have work we need to do, and the last thing you'd want is to get ... students know how frustrating it is to be sick or hosed or generally ... me in my dorm room, trying my best to stop being sick. I couldn't even

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  We understand that it's difficult for international students to apply to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications ... comfortable evaluating your application in context. A committee of experienced
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  story of how I ended up in 6-2. 6-9 I entered MIT last fall knowing I ... several stories about people planning to major in one field, only to declare ... in course 3. Before coming to MIT, I’d never particularly enjoyed

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022