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  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  . Actor James Woods came close in 1969 but dropped out a semester before ... few steps along the way," said Mr. Sahin, who plans to major in ... biology teacher Barbara Pittenger for inspiring him to pursue a major in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  in The Matrix): (Click on either photo for a zoomed-in view) ... the Longfellow Bridge over the Charles River (if you panned a bit more ... captures the Boston skyline from a different vantage point than Arya's photo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  because she is lucky and I am not, and since New York is only a 4-hour Fung ... my high school was pretty sweet too, except in a different way, because it ended in a Red Robin in Central PA rather than Rice to Riches, New

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  away from a little town and a lot of who I used to be. In retrospect, it ... nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in ... matter where you end up, is a rapidly changing environment by definition

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with ... deferred, what is the deadline to send in supplemental materials? Get things ... . Committee starts in February. If I was missing a teacher rec would I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  (with some photos, too.) 1.A24: You CAN Get There From Here! This is a ... eyes of a potential civil engineering student. Though the seminar ends in ... getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  Downtown Berkeley, and here I am. I call Mitra who is also in the Berkeley ... is leaving" hustle. "STOP!" yells the TSA officer. Everyone stops in ... admissions process. I will expand on this topic in a later blog entry, but here

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  Office. "MIT is a very special place and the students who come here bring ... done a "remarkable job" in that capacity. "Under his committed leadership, the office successfully completed the 2007-2008 admissions cycle--a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  semester, our chef, Karen, who is a trained pastry chef, makes some of the ... think wild and crazy kids in togas. If by togas you mean suits and ties, then you're correct. So this past weekend, my fraternity hosted a party

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How much is the application fee?

  The first-year application fee is $75, payable online with a credit ... application fees presents a hardship for some families. Fee waivers are ... one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  's his door in action: A couple notes from someone who has opened and ... Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back ... visiting my room: "Your door is so ANALOG(UE)!" Chris wrote up a more

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  Thursday night, my friend told me "Hey Erick, tomorrow morning is Ask A VC ... Pad but in the shape of a sphere and it goes on top of your car". Towards ... . and you have to cover your costs. This is opposed to a software startup

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  uncomfortable, a foreigner in distant lands, comfortable with uncertainty as I ... Championships in San Jose, CA Stayed with a host family in Germany while ... the country Spent a week with my grandparents and dad in Hong Kong and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  is, an engineer without interests in the wider world, working a cushy ... 's been a decade, and only brief snippets of that MIT still remain in my ... at my interests in mathematics. But I'm not a teenager anymore, and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  . However, it is certainly the case that students who we admit have had a ... in? Is life over for them? Are they destined to a life of destitution ... people who wrote that report said is that MIT exists as a place to nurture

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is ... primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant ... recognize you in the words as written. If so, it's probably a good essay for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... a friend who's an LA native about this feeling and he said that it ... and it's like you're caught in a time loop. i don't know if i like that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park![/caption] Traveling in a van with reps ... in a lifetime opportunity to speak with so many institutions.” Thanks ... from. Growing up on a farm in rural Wyoming, college felt like a distant

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  in EA. That's a small number, but to be honest so is the number of RA ... who were admitted or denied in EA. Deferred students, however, will have to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  by me[/caption] My supervisor, Ellen, is a PhD candidate in chemical ... , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... then. I knew I wanted to get into a lab at some point, but I wasn't in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021