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  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  recommendation. This in general would not need to be on an MIT recommendation form ... process. We'll be most interested in your research experience: how you got interested in the field, how you acquired your research opportunity, your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  several years back when I was in junior high. What do you think occupied ... I found this song (and immediately realized how positively musically ... at the University of Chicago called Cascade. I would have never learned

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  ? A NERD? Why, I've never been called a nerd in my life! Good heavens ... writer ever since I wrote my first "book" in fourth grade, I take pictures, I sing, I dance, I'm in a sketch comedy group. I took all the AP

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  always going in the wrong direction no matter how hard you try. When I ... to hang out, in case the answer was no. I would see other people doing ... beginnings of deep friendships in the East Campus courtyard. I felt like a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  March 22nd in Copley Square. "Hm," I thought, "wouldn't it be cool if ... how long it would take the '12s to notice. We wandered into line and stood behind the girl in the sweatshirt. Michelle and I just stood there

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  violence during my first year of high school? Can I write an essay about how ... that was a 15-minute drive from the house I grew up in (where I was ... high school visit, I got in my car and cried. I cried not only because

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  at least, comfort. I would never have described myself as pretty in ... put it in a ponytail. I’ll stare in the mirror for a moment, realize how ... (although I would’ve rather died than do it in front of someone else) and I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  outside and realized that it was unexpectedly cold. In retrospect, I should ... I processed everything that happened in lab today. And I definitely ... . We had a microquiz in 6.0001 (Introduction to Python) that I didn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  with students taking an active part in the discussion. I'll try to note some of the more interesting events as IAP progresses. Also, I asked in a ... events tomorrow catch my eye. They are: The History of the Universe in One

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  *Sigh* So I went and wrote this whole entry about women in ... would let me forget everything I learned this spring. The timing was just no good. So the new plan is this: I'm going to go in and observe

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is the February ... need to; I would only consider this if you were planning to do so during ... advantage nor disadvantage for having been deferred in EA. I can't give you a

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  a read, because I give an in-depth account of how I managed to ... important points in there. A common question I get a lot was articulated by ... : I an interested mother whose son (now 14 in 10), has talked about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  celebration to a puzzling punctuation in the calendar. Hmm! I say to the mirror ... this, and so much more?— When the blogs were created in 2004, the i ... apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  , and in general how have you experiences been with the classes at MIT ... . Even if none of these things were true, I would recommend that everyone ... grade in the class, or my bitching about all-nighters, that I thought this

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  living with them again, I started thinking about how little time I would ... MIT – that's about 6,750 days. How many days would I have seen them ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... do the Overnight Program? No, I'm sorry. I'm still very interested in ... to follow). I would recommend sending us a note to this email address

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to ... I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the ... also, I guess, because they can help explain a slightly lower GPA in some

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  to theorize about what you would do in certain situations or how your ... behavior in a given setting is to experience that setting i liked that ... can also explain why i am slower in conversations? as in, i find it very

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  yourself into. As an expert in what he is and is not currently in, I'd be happy to tell you and as I was reflecting late one night about how fast ... with since I'd done really well in BC calc, but decided to take anyway. I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011