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• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  impression on someone, it is unlikely you would immediately launch into a ... interview the same way! There are a lot of things that can come out during ... interview is one piece of a large picture of you a college is trying to put

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  member of a team in college is of real importance to me. Is it to you? ... hockey is a club team. Although this is entirely personal, I love the level ... spring here at MIT and spend a ton of time practicing, cross training and

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn ... -destroyer, so I could just say "you have C's and D's, what more can I tell you ... applicant pool. So the simple answer is - you didn't do anything wrong, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  have no excuses! (I've also realized that there is a Spongebob gif for ... never seen a movie involving time travel that I did not like. I can ... digress! The point of this paragraph is that I haven't had a lot of time to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  Bridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don’t worry! You can ... your application is complete by then and you did not match. We can ... transcript? A: You can fax it to us at 617-687-9184 or mail it to MIT Office of

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  [annotation note="there is a theme here"]free granola bars[/annotation] and ... the opening event on Friday. Josephine is a chemical engineer, Rick ... and Climate Club is a business-focused energy club, so we could have

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  you and anyone else will have a similar experience is 1 in a bajillion ... from you soon! See you in 9 days! CPW is a blast -- tips for conquering ... - we want to hear you and hear what CPW is like for you and the friends

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  Given that tomorrow is pi(e) day, a celebration of irrational numbers ... experiment. Let’s imagine that one day, a pang of hunger strikes you as though the goddess Limos had inflicted a terrible curse upon you. Well, maybe

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  ,’[/annotation]it’s anime. Can you do this for me?” And, with a tear in my eye, I looked at my ... there to help! Until then, try not to worry too much. If you want a ... and a Slack message from Petey appears saying, “Kellen, I need you to

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  . The aim here is to see if there is a difference in the children ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  .00 on my TechCash account. Do you realize how hard this is? This is like actually using up all the change in your wallet before you can accumulate any ... other people from my gmail. Fun fact: you can only have 5 gchat windows

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  of meteorites. At the end of the hall, there's a room with a projector ... information faster than you can provide it? I tried to brainstorm some resources ... ." Carl: "HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT????" He thinks I'm a wizard.) We talked

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  in.  A woman asked me the typical questions — where are you from, how ... there’s a charity event for it. Folk come from all over the world. He ... , which is a lovely lovely blessing. I haven’t slept in a room alone since

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... literacy and cognition. Fundamentally, a good admissions officer is not ... time now, and it is the task for which I am paid; I am basically a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  like you want to be part of a team that is really making a difference ... Group], where classes are small and you know your instructors on a first ... good enough," yet how many ways can you prepare tea? Is it really THAT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  Falmouth, MA, an hour and a half from MIT, where there are faeries and ... , which is fine, because there are many ways to skin a rabbit (and besides ... rabbits. She is a YouTuber, a tumblerer, and a listener of angsty acoustic

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  that “school is a great place to be, so take the time to mentally explore and learn a lot about yourself.” (The photo is from the MIT ... , MIT grad Dr. David Berry knows a thing or two about success. Though he

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The youngest known meteor impact crater in the world is located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a ... ... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  letting us know one way or the other. Can you tell me where I am on the ... of you may be saying, "C'mon, MIT is really good at math. They have to ... , but I do not anticipate that happening this year (though it is always a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  Overview of Past Semesters (there is a tl;dr below) Freshman fall: 8 ... arrangement of classes where you can both graduate on time and also write ... class at Harvard  There is a minor flaw to this plan. The flaw is that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022