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FAQ / Interview
What if my interview is waived?
Unfortunately, even with over 3,500 alumni volunteer Educational Counselors all over the world, we may not be able to arrange an interview for every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your -
FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?
We're often asked to recommend specific classes for high school students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required classes but consider an ideal preparation to include calculus, physics -
Blog / MIT Life
Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle
even force the Pulitzer committee to start a new Pulitzer category for ... . On the original night that I had set aside for my blogging rampage, it ... entrance, from which I tend to casually fulfill my need for condiments even -
Blog / Life after MIT
A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis
”. The Little Hunger is the desire for the material, basic needs and beyond, where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in ... you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to -
Blog / Academics & Research
10,000 Ways That Won’t Work
-motivated undergrads; overall, a win-win situation for everyone involved. Additionally ... doing a UROP (at least for me) is the prospect of applying the skills I ... current lab for the past two semesters. In the fall, I fabricated magnetic -
Blog / Athletics
self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems
trigger built in; that for every person, there is a sentence that can reduce ... the bathroom at the beginning of january i flew to sf for a job interview. i was pretty nervous for it - it was my first ever in-person job -
Blog / Challenges
uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song
requested for financial assistance. both were approved. it was a relief to ... from dining for at least the next two months. there was this book giveaway that the undergrad association did, where we wrote a blurb for one -
Blog / MIT Life
A Chapter Closes To open another
room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A ... finally come to an end, and with it, my first year at MIT. For me, the end ... in New York for a couple of days. We’ll spend some time participating -
Blog / Athletics
the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!
pictures, which speak for themselves. The Big Rocks have a lot to say, just ... of course, more green living things than my heart could ever wish for ... rental and gas fees for undergrads :)"]group of people[/annotation] who -
Blog / Academics & Research
How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis
="aligncenter" width="768"] Figure 1 – Mohs hardness scale for some common materials [2 ... ” opening in July) to measure their Vickers hardnesses. To correct for human error, I took three measurements for each sample using the indenter and -
Blog / Challenges
blind spots on privilege
glassblowing and psycholinguistics to creative computation. There are clubs for ... . Through the Council for the Arts at MIT, you can get free or discounted ... attendance to professional or academic conferences for undergraduate students -
Blog / Academics & Research
Some F Words ****!!!
lately (which I found mostly began with ‘F’) (thanks for clicking on my ... bridge, and I’m starting to apply for jobs and work in tech and do those ... convinced myself that putting time or effort into appearance was for people -
Blog / MIT Life
It’s 2015! Happy New Year
originally drawn for the awesome Aquil Fannis. But I decided to take a break ... past semester in the Destiny Lounge of Random Hall, an abode for ... unholy amount of Netflix. But we were better off for doing it together, and -
Blog / Admissions
Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil
penchants. This is a common misconception. For what all of these millions of ... grew out of the ancient battles for Anglicanism, but rather an even more ... whom I advise, and who work for me, think of me as being almost -
Blog / Admissions
Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.
every day. I actually do cook for myself almost every night, but I haven ... go out to a restaurant for dinner. I haven't been to one of the dining ... elective credits for that exam? Information about that can't be found -
Blog / Academics & Research
Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?
sophomore year in 1935. Luckily for the history of organic chemistry, he was ... for that class. RB was entering his last semester at MIT when he ... for the tests to be rescheduled . Upon his graduation in Spring 1936 -
Blog / How to Food
Come together (and eat)
Okay, I must really be starved for questions if I'm now answering ... dining halls, it's good for all of them. So if you live in Next and you ... for the house (if you're still confused as to why the FSILG houses care -
Blog / Challenges
the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships
spoilers for the movie arrival (and by extension, the novella story ... sleep normally for several weeks afterwards, probably because of affection ... and breakups. for instance, some of my favorites include difficult -
Blog / Challenges
old east campus working through feelings caused by news
like much, but consider that turnover for a dorm is only four years long ... . for burton-conner, that class year was the 2023s. and there are lots of ... who lived in burton-conner only lived there for a semester and a half