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  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  . Something like 60,000 words. I was working on an epic fantasy book I’d been

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  80,000 hours or Wait But Why’s guide to choosing a career. During grad

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  : I read something online that said, “There are 30,000 days in your life

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  and the class sparked my interest in geology. 12.000: Solving Complex

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update We plan to release Early Action decisions on Monday, 12/15.

  

  that we have received approximately 5,000 early action applications this year. This is an increase of roughly 1,000 applications over last year ... received approximately 1,000 EA applications. In 1997-98, we received

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  . Well done! In total, I counted 95 guesses between 10,000 and 20,000

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  materials and test scores for more than 7,000 regular action applicants. That is more than 40,000 application pieces to be processed in a very brief

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  Development, the program provides scholarships of $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 to ... , including $50,000 scholarship winners Jamie Rubin '07 and Daniel Kane '07

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What programs does MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) offer?

  science and engineering experiences to over 3,000 middle and high school
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  deploying Ten Red Weather Balloons all across the country. $40,000 goes to the ... , you get $2,000. Period. Simple as that. The person who invited you gets $1,000. The person who invited that person gets $500. Get it? The rest

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  “So, Andi, let’s talk about your accomplishments from this semester. Was your research output impactful enough to lead to a start-up?” I just sat there and shook my head in…

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

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  sales of approximately $164,000,000,000 and represent 26 percent of total ... , provide jobs for approximately 3,300,000 people around the world and earn $2,200,000,000,000

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  89 million people were affected, between 195,000 ad 403,000 people were ... vaccinated almost 3,000 people in six hours. The process is remarkably ... asthma, diabetes, and heart failure. More than 200,000 people in the United

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  vote-getters in the $250,000 category, then every branch of Camp Kesem gets $10,000 - including Camp Kesem MIT :) Right now, $55,000 will send 60 kids to camp; $10,000 more will enable us to reach out to even more

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Battlecode?

  maybe earn a share of a $15,000 prize pool.
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I join the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge?

  competition that awards up to $20,000 per team for the best ideas to tackle
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  the country come together to compete for $49,000 in prize money, including a $25,000 first place prize. PBS recently put together a short

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  "the greatest publishing venture of the 15th century"; $75,000)   (Some ... : Renaissance Science and its Medieval Antecedents (1482, $38,000); Right: First Printed Illustrations of the Constellations (1483, $45,000)) The prices

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  part of an award from L’Oreal, but our goal is to raise $10,000 and we ... for every $1,000 raised, we can send one counselor and three kids to ... . Overall, we are required to fund-raise upwards of $20,000 in order to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  30,000. The tennis ball representing how we naturally adopt a state of ... a circle of people around you to help you grow. The 30,000 were that there are only 30,000 days in the average lifetime. This year, Ellen

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014