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comment somewhere in their rec letter(s) regarding contact information if ... about the process used to evaluate international/non-U.S. school system ... 's academic preparation? Are international/non-U.S. school system applications -
Blog / Admissions
Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.
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FAQ / First-year application
How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?
demonstrate their ability to handle MIT’s rigorous academic standards. The -
FAQ / First-year application
What are my chances of admission?
ACT, as scores are evaluated within an applicant’s context. We don -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved
-to pizza spot for many MIT students. But not me. I am A4's biggest hater ... for A4) that former U.S. President Barack Obama chose to dine at A4 when ... mushroom and fontina pizza! I'm still A4's biggest hater because of all the -
Blog / Life after MIT
[Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz
I can only see the skeletal remains, there is an honoring of what’s ... opportunity to revisit on our 20th anniversary. So, what’s the legacy? How has ... true – “You can never go home again”. But here’s hoping you can at least -
Blog / IAP
a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that
of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... childhood— ”that’s odd, you don’t strike me as the very quiet type.” Here ... "][/annotation] last year. It’s why I’ll always be a big advocate for programs like -
Blog / Announcements
FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin
. ... These new steps to enhance MIT’s affordability for students and families ... unusual wealth atypical of a given income level. For example, let’s say you ... expenses while they farm and sell quail eggs at the Northampton farmer’s -
Blog / Rural and Small-Town
my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??
Food at Jerry’s Cafe in Gallup, drove through Navajo National Monument ... barriers to higher education. After all, it’s easy to feel discouraged when ... reminds me why this work is so important. It’s about making dreams feel -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually
first year and have been on my year’s class council since. It has been ... , but we winded up just using a monocle, a top hat, 1800s-era TIM instead ... Illustrator. I first removed [annotation note="scandalous, I know"]TIM’s shirt -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology
I hate Bevi. It’s frustratingly slow, the user interface makes me ... blissfully unaware of Bevi’s existence, prepare to have your day ruined as I ... , so here’s a story about the one time when Bevi brought a glimmer of joy -
Blog / Life after MIT
i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world
process takes maybe twenty minutes at most, but it’s so essential in helping ... an exercise in color theory or proportions. It’s a chance to experiment ... remember reading about Zuckerberg’s choice to wear the same type of shirt -
Blog / IAP
eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day
here at the foot of the Rockies. There’s snow on the tracks, and the ... the mountains. I am feeling rejuvenated after a good night’s sleep; I ... french toast (8/10) and listened to her talk about her sons and her life’s -
Blog / IAP
eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day
) Good morning! It’s a beautiful morning out here in the [annotation ... Station to [annotation note="no, that’s not a real word; yes, I stand by it ... don’t. It’s probably the best train waiting area I’ve been in, which is -
Blog / Academics & Research
making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class
science or tools or fabrication processes in this post, mostly because there’s ... it’s not clear why we should care about the problems we’re studying ... to dedicate our lives to them. it’s hard not to be convinced when you -
Blog / Academics & Research
scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes
Putting together a semester’s course schedule is a nontrivial ... , there’s a lot of “darn I can’t take class A if I take class B because they ... determine the class list way before Registration Day. It’s great for -
Blog / Challenges
magicians trying to learn magic
abilities and get Sanatan’s. You would have had to step back and build ... : it’s really hard to be noticed, so i want to be the kind of person that ... magic i’ve found has been non-academic in nature. that’s part of why i -
Blog / Challenges
sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment
, this is the result: the samurai’s sword (left) slashes straight through the ninja’s sword (right) and breaks it in half. then the samurai ... , though i know it’s not their job to. perhaps they didn’t notice, or perhaps -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
two years after my book auction in retrospect
On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it ... memorable than usual, because it’s the day my first novel went to auction. It ... had asked everybody to leave campus, so I was at my boyfriend Chris’s