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  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  citizenship and they got rejected coz of the opposite reason, that's why I am ... applying to a school that I already sent the scores to? (of course MIT isn ... plenty of students every year who were not admitted to one of the programs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  slightly outdated) version of Marty's talk on the same topic at last year ... Sunday, or tomorrow, or whenever, to check out any of the MIT things going ... I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when ... the father of the inflationary theory of the universe - and figured, in ... the most of your time at MIT, and for working towards completion of your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  of being difficult, but 6.115 hit the rare sweet spot of being ... the lines of "a small computer" or "a single chip designed to do things ... that some of my friends were in the same boat. Lab was a whole 'nother

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  became streaks down the dry skin of my cheek. And eventually became a loud ... . Togetherness. Gratitude. Today, the MIT community gathered for a Vigil of Hope ... -encompassing as pain and fear. Different kinds of tears ran down my cheek as the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  lot of students enter as the "science kid" or some other variation only to be faced with the realization that a significant portion of the ... mainly mean this in the sense that a lot of my favorite memories have been

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  -campus dining options; there's a huge cooking culture in many of the dorms, as ... still think MIT's the place that can't be beat; the majority of my ... . In fact, I don't think I'd ever had any sort of Mexican food beyond the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of ... about why this can be a really good idea.) So you got into one of the ... ’ve always dreamed of (and, no doubt, the one everyone *expects* you to have

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  (except that Sam was wearing a suit jacket at the time) which drew a lot of ... showing you two more pictures from the evening. The first is of me with my bff Sophie :) and the second is an unfortunate candid shot of me; my now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  . Bryan '07 offered all of the prefrosh blog readers a chance to write a ... have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the Rrrrrrr part of the title). I could devote an entire entry just to this, but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  . So, I thought I'd post a few up here. To spare you the trouble of ... 't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to MIT? 2. What does a day in the life of a physicist look like? 3. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  our “daily walk” around the track, followed by a vigorous round of ... pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small ... classes were spent quickly going over how to use each of the machines and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  , with work from the minds of Gaudi and Dali offering up an escape from the ... of MIT's pistol class [annotation note="unfortunately I was on the ... name off the top of my head"][/annotation] Hi again blog, I write to you

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  feel so good in the midst of finals, in the midst of a pandemic, in the midst of everything which is horrible in the world, and it is odd that the ... day of my second vaccine shot, I walk across the parking lot to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  numbers are, of course, mere approximations. Depending on the professor and ... example, in the case of the required Course 16 Unified Engineering series ... Parenthood. Content-wise, my work is close to the opposite of the general MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  . Unfortunately, the only ones of you who might’ve believed that my post ended there ... the third quarter of my sophomore year of high school working on MIT ... times a month and probably will for the rest of my life, for better or for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  coaster of editing, getting feedback, and editing some more. In the midst of ... and Literature University of Northern Iowa January 2006 The Statement of Purpose required by grad schools is probably the hardest thing you

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  an infinitesimal fraction of what it has to offer these past four years. To the Class of 2012 -- four years is an incredibly short time, and ... 've done a comprehensive study of Beijing's performance in the Olympics and

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen appliance in most countries outside of the US and apparently many immigrants

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... and sends pictures of the sky for signs of exoplanets. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024