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  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  American excellence." This is a topic we could talk about for hours on end... ... There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about a topic that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  campus as a freshman. While reading these blogs is a great alternative, it ... Institute of Technology. The context of my trip: New York City is a few hours ... first door to the right is a men's bathroom. My friends Steven and Brendan

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  . Jackson prophesied so long ago, their main hamburger is indeed called a ... of their sandwiches is called a Croque McDo, which I guess must be some ... any of that today, I just got a milk shake, which is just called a Milk

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  helped me quite a bit. At MIT, the interview is an important part of the ... his school. That was certainly a turn-off, though really the school is a fine place. So perhaps the lesson for this paragraph is, don't judge a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  situation is the same as if you collided with a stationary car while biking at ... / admissions wiki today. Amita Gupta, a freshman member of the inaugural Tech FPOP, interviewed Matt and I yesterday for it, and the article is pretty

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Room Tour 2017 edition

  

  2021s, can't wait to meet y'all this week! To give you guys a sneak peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film and edit videos. Here's my first shot at it, and a room tour to show for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Intermission Summer job: just kickin' it. And working at Pixar, too.

  

  Sometimes taking a little time to recharge is really all you need. I ... you guys, though - watch for a pretty important entry coming up about ... . How're your summers treating you?

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 7, 2007
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  MIT admits a small number of interesting, talented transfer students every year. Unfortunately, we’re very limited to how many students we can ... to MIT is during your second term of study. Students who at the time
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  ABC has a new reality television show called The Scholar, which is a ... , a prize that could be worth as much as $240,000. They will have to ... more like a conversation and less like an interrogation. The purpose is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  or did you contact the coach and (this is going to sound stupid) how ... 're a prospective freshman who is interested in the particular sport and ... places for different people. Matt: how is burton connected or different

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  number is not 100% set in stone. I am not yet sure how many bloggers will ... solidified. (While previous blogging experience is paramount in our selection process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  within just a few days and how important it is to take a deep breath, slow ... .[/annotation]It turns out, though, that one of the best perks of living in Boston is how ... made a stop in New Hampshire to walk the Artists Bluff Trail, which is a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  morning nor night), or how to sense when my social battery is gasping and ... this blog is a collection of those observations: some things I learned ... that there is a correct way to do college (and life in general): a neat

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  Hi everyone! It is that time again, the time of my[annotation note="okay, so, this is only the second time. but it's been a year okay ... can draw HORSES (!), but prefers to ride a bike, and is dating Harry

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate", which varies a slightly by academic year (for example ... Something, following the proper etiquette (Hacker's Code of Ethics) which is

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  boundaries of what you know - well, what's the point? There is a reason an MIT ... what you're capable of. Which is so much more than you might otherwise ... This video is very appropriate this morning. Since about five o

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  - and very cool to realize how easy it is to match a passage of text with ... instinct is to do what you ALWAYS do when you have a question about her MIT ... saint names. She used incendiary WHAT as a WHAT? How alarming. And

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  how you group words. There’s a certain power in a sentence that is more ... phrases make you seem less confident as a narrator, which is useful ... meaning perfectly. Do not separate a subject and its verb. An exception is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  , these injuries were pretty much my own fault. Because my EMT-B state exam is coming up in just over a week, I've spent the past few days cycling ... . It would be somewhat forgivable if these minor wounds were a result of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bryan is alive and in Rome Day One In Rome

  

  We got here safely, and we're having a blast. I'll write a longer ... hour and I have a lot of emails to respond to. (Thanks for all the emails - keep sending) But for now, I'll just leave you with a few photos. Monday

  • by Bryan
  • March 27, 2006