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• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  that MIT has to offer? He's the kind of person will read Marcus Aurelius ... mindset you have. It was something really general, along the lines of "what ... now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  ), and applying to medical school. One of the most interesting things that ... America. At MIT, Dr. Lee said, the focus of science is to teach you to ... . This actually is a disadvantage during the first two years of med school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  coded key of how I classify the classes.Notice the relatively small fraction of classes per semester that I actually wanted to take and the ... waiting to take this class since freshman fall, and it's honestly one of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... applications varying by semester. Emphasis on the integration of fundamental ... synthesis of all the chemical engineering topics you've learned: mass and

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  before the last first day of my time here at MIT. To put that in less ... had felt too soon, almost as if I were betraying the sanctity of my ... as “home”, and I came to a conclusion of sorts after the discovery of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  , I’m excited again, since both of my parents are in the biology field ... ’s under Stata. But!!! I'm crazy excited that the classical theory of ... what I get. It’s going to be hard, but at least I know I got most of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2007 Numbers, numbers, numbers.

  

  we offer a plethora of numbers for any statistical junkie. Recently, we ... Probably the most popular questions asked at any information session are statistical. What is the average SAT score? How many students were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2007
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist who ranked MIT but was not matched still apply for EA and/or RA?

  students, regardless of citizenship. If admitted to MIT through the Quest ... offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of your ... email in early December outlining the options available: You may use
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  experiences with all of you through the admissions blogs. Whether I talked about ... find out whether or not certain friends of mine - from across the nation ... , really, this is not the end of the world. I wish I could tell you all that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... :15 AM -- One of the girls I met at the UCLA weekend works at a ... undergrad and grad school), and she offered to drive me back to the dorm, an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the ... rejection can't really derail things that badly if you kept sight of the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  MIT, I can proudly claim the “gay” identity. I’m part of Queer West. I ... takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid ... . After months of scheming and plotting how to get the words -- lodged

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  , times a thousand. That’s probably the amount of hate that my phone feels for me. Marla is the phone I got before freshman year of high school ... of fame of places where I have dropped Marla: the floor of an aquarium

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... a week of wireless internet in the bathtub and reading by the ... any major. A list of degree programs is here (I find this list SUPER

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  ’m taking this term. I’m taking a total of 45 credits, the fewest credits I’ve ever taken at MIT. Part of the reason for that is that one of my classes ... class until 1pm any day of the week. 1.011 – Project Evaluation (9 credits

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you ... the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I've also always been a ... Institute of Technology. I liked the way that sounded. It had a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  I know it's late in the college application season--the deadline is near and the pressure is on--but for all of you who are still typing away ... the quality of their school's college counseling.“ Enjoy. If your brain

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  people"]75 degrees,[/annotation] so I took the opportunity to spend the ... that make the grind of MIT bearable, and make me glad to be on campus even in covid times. Knowing that at the end of the week I'll be able to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  still thinking of the things I would write for all of you out there who read the blogs. Thinking of all the things I would say post-decision time ... the controls to slow down, but they're just out of reach. You fall flat

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT ... the predictive validity of our decisions with respect to subsequent ... accessible to everyone well in advance of the application deadline

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020