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  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  to grades? For example, would a B+ in an application be viewed in the ... grounds for a second look at the application (or even termination) if the ... and program one points in his/her application? Is it possible for

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  . For the most part, we’ll treat your questions like they were written in ... ’ve played varsity soccer here for four years!) MISTI (internships in Spain ... about that) Greek life (I’ve been in a sorority for all four years and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  admission decisions should certainly be sinking in by now. For those offered ... an option in the immediate future. This is what is supposed to happen ... at the beginning of May, when an enrollment decision must be made

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . Splash weekend starts rather early for me. I wake up at an absurd time in ... ). Not having a board to write on in a math class threw off my flow for a ... Haley C. ‘18 is a sophomore living in East Campus and studying Course

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  never seen it rain for more than an hour or so until the day before I left ... learned this the hard way. I finally gave in and spent a little more for ... It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  does one stop looking like an Admissions Officer? Well you wear jeans ... 's time I come clean. I had never been on an MIT campus tour. Yes, you heard ... makes sense when you think about it. I arrived on campus for freshman

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  look up too long while sitting in 32-449, and it made me dizzy as my ... pipes hanging from the ceiling, when my son looked over with a smile and ... looking at the link), so I was somewhat skeptical. But I am nothing if not

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost ... students. Unfortunately, I'm a pretty quiet person when I'm in an unfamiliar ... for help much faster than I did in high school, but I wonder how much of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  there for an hour. Or if you don't think you're the Greek type, go to a ... 's kind of what going back to MIT feels like. So I visited back in February ... learning Calculus are tied for first - I'm quite serious), and knew

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  'd probably look pretty different...but that's a challenge and a list for ... in, from my lab-mates, from my friends...and so on. Maybe it's not as ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nothing, after all

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  Whew, I'm glad JKim posted an entry ten seconds after I did, because otherwise I'd feel incredibly bad for spending my entire morning writing in here instead of studying for the TWO exams I have on Tuesday. This way

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  looks like I’ll be sticking around the lab for an extra week), presenting ... camp for kids whose parents have/had cancer. It is an opportunity these ... papers (coming soon to an MIT journal near you), working at Camp Kesem (it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  .021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I took a special version of 8.02 known as 8.021, specifically designed for ... remember correctly). The tiny class size allows for quick response during

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  play. When I walk past that house, I feel an overwhelming yearning for ... covered in chalk drawings. Then, I feel an overwhelming feeling of nausea. I ... and record an audio of myself speaking, which I've been doing in lieu of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  pick up in high school, but for the rest of us who stared out the windows ... . (This is an awkward topic for me personally because my dad would beat all ... good-looking than you. They will probably be an upperclassman who's taken

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  moment for many of the students who have been looking forward to visiting ... Making Caring Common report was released in 2016, I wrote that an important ... worry about how things will look to us.   In the last few weeks, I have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  for two hours. I misread my major in haste and accidentally went to ... processing the fact that I'm leaving my home in Boston for the next six years ... after eating it, which would look like this: ^_^ Because I am an anime

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  available for classes you’ve taken in your current academic year. I am ... for current-year courses and grades. And we're only looking for this ... is an online form that is required of all students (including those

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  , and then I’ll start looking for an academic faculty job. (If you ... cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that ... engineer husband. (He proposed to me in Killian Court, and there was an entry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  hearts and true passions. I mentioned to the group that at MIT we look for ... in order of priority). (We'll pause here to clarify for the record that ... - but you would never hear someone in our office generalize an applicant

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005