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• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  how my second degree affects my chances of admission. Would I do it ... I haven’t blogged much at all this year. I remember how happy I was ... advice on how to succeed here.” I still feel that way. But I didn’t blog

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  , look ourselves in the mirror and say, 'I'm responsible,"' Jones told her admissions colleagues. "We have to look ourselves in the eye and say, 'Am I an ... of her daughter. "When she was in sixth or seventh grade, I was every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  -paced curriculum. If I had to learn computer science in Spanish, I would probably ... shrouded in a dense fog, but I imagine that in the summer, it would’ve been ... would take more language classes (in vain, given the hell that is this

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  i posted the following message in the MIT class of 2021 admits ... . things like the one class i took on a whim, but it completely changed how i understand the world, and now i'm doing a senior project in that field. or the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  specifically how I met or befriended the friend (in many other cases, I either ... remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT ... is "I make friends with the people in APO, the Assassins' Guild, the UA

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  If you had asked me what I thought college life would be like back when I was in high school, I would have said something like “prolly ... . Fortunately, I now know how to make a website, something that I never actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  interested in seeing what it would say about me. Would it say I'm an ENFP still ... to even how my island is going to look like in Animal Crossing. I try ... . I think it's pretty interesting how I would normally consider myself

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  , but they would have been reasons to choose MIT if I had known them. In ... Well, I'm back in Boston, slowly recovering from jet lag, and am ... tomorrow. I already had a test today, in 7.28 (Molecular Biology), so I'm not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  I've been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I ... suggestions for MIT merch" Date: March/April 2024 Premise: I saw a notebook in ... ) on the cover. In my dismay, I decided to make a sequel to my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids ... – I would’ve loved to have either of those things, but my semester just ... conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  would shift again toward socializing in the coming weeks. All in all, I ... I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  . When asked how I feel about a situation, I usually say something akin to ... , often alludes me. All I know is that I like or don't like how I feel about ... (more often) that I hate it. This is how I talked about my first day of my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  in person, or just how much "mathematical maturity" I need to take it ... a group of people living in the same place would all have the same ... advising seminars, because I am in one and I like it a lot! The idea is that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  feelings feel more distant day-by-day, but i faintly remember how painful it was to get deferred. i was expecting to get deferred, really. i knew, in ... that they would be shocked if i didn't get accepted. there's something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  ) considered? If yes, how would you evaluate them? The grading scheme is ... regular decision apps must be in- preferably longer, but I know you are in ... live in essay. Is it okay if I put one in the completely optional section

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  and broke two bones in my wrist, and I would not even put that among the ... ! How cool is that? However, not every single UROP in the history of MIT ... had one in the summer of 2004 I had a UROP with a professor in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  carbs after a tough run and I’m not in any mood to assemble it myself ... impressive in my opinion when I have UROP, Track, and play rehearsals going on ... never knew when culinary creativity would strike. One Sunday, when I had

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  received them?" I would have them sent again, or faxed in to our office, if ... . ------------------------------------- cujoe169 wrote "If i wanted to send in a recording, but it would be very ... the deadline, so I'm taking a break from my New Years vacation (in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  in an RPG, his charisma would be... cheat code." ***** "I'm convinced ... conversation-snippits that I caught as I passed by people. In high school I was ... that if I weren't holding a vial full of toxic solvent right now, I would

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  -graduate-student perspective that I never would have thought of a few years ago. Two weekends ago ... information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I ... cheerleading and research?" I do have a paper which is currently in revision for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006