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• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  as I have for that college down the road, I have to admit that my best ... through the mail, old school. We are considering moving the form online for ... postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  I've been promising an entry specifically for homeschooled applicants and other interested parties for a long time now; this is an early ... from our applicants. At MIT, we do not have separate requirements for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  speak at Math Prize for Girls, a competition for top female students in ... ’s still a fun fact that can raise some eyebrows). One of my close friends ... ’t actively rooting for my downfall, and he never would’ve done anything

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  of the colors changed: blue was now yellow, red was now cyan. This wasn't uniformly the case: some of the blues were stil blue, some of the reds, were still red, etc. What the heck? The obvious next step: look at the screen

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  . Unfortunately for me, I am a hopeless sap, so the best I can hope for is not ... together for such a long time, you have lots of stories), about graduate ... MIT for college, reason #65932 Adam, my beautiful curly-haired rocket

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  with the big front wheel? They provided hours of fun for us when we were ... to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the ... at work (written back in August, but still perhaps true?), but for now

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  , writing a blog post for the first time in almost four years. Since I started ... from me, taking the rest of my life with it. For some holidays, my mom ... , and for the first time in my life, I learned to fly alone. I’d grip my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... all my work to prepare for my boyfriend staying over, but now that he ... May 4th, which means that i won't see him or any of my friends for a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  "Write a browser quicksearch tool to make online utilities more efficient ... somewhere first for it to run on!" But since I didn't want to run a server off my laptop, and MIT's virtual machine service is down for maintenance, I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  of the content and a deeper appreciation for the creators. But even if ... form of media studies content. Unfortunately I hate video editing, so for now enjoy this Blahaj blog :).  Blahaj, Swedish for “blue shark,” is

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  to do laundry by myself or to know which medicine I should take for ... I had to wake up early enough to clean and prepare for their arrival, so I set my alarm for 8am. I woke up at 11. After throwing everything

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  Hunting, “You wasted ⌈your tuition⌋ on an education you coulda got for $1.50 ... play ball,” except for a STEM education.']recruitment[/annotation] and ... the best students from all backgrounds.[/annotation]  For a very long

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  meetings in Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida; overall, we will visit 70 cities ... RSVP here. On Wednesday, I will fly to Florida in preparation for my ... , FL. Amy has already flown to Texas in advance of her meeting in Dallas

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  , where they scan my ID, ask me for my last name, my date of birth, my phone ... -jokingly-triumphant way because I had been uninterested in the project for a while, but felt ... continue? to which I had settled on “probably not” for each. Brenda applauds

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  control of one of the ailerons (so Corn Dog was indeed a crippled dog for ... ) for three laps around the course in as short a time as possible. We knew that our Corn Dog was the fastest plane at the competition--however, the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  Lydia K. '14 MEng '16 Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) by ... “right” for the field. And I would have overlooked the Institute that was right for me—the one where I am unafraid to experiment, where I can always

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  ? Here's the answer key. For extra fun, pretend it's written upside ... ever should, using my right index finger alone. Take, for instance ... way, but let's save that story for another pair of parentheses). I felt

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  best for me. Follow Through I like to think of myself as a project ... internship, like I've been telling people. It's a subgenre of sorts, meant for ... expanded the program for me in order to get in. And so that's why when I look

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  work/environment is best for you, it will also provide you with a history ... I applied for biology Ph.D. programs this past fall and interviewed ... a couple of years ago for those of you who are just now wrapping up

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  (Only in Texas can you legally drive 80mph on an Interstate highway ... Worth, Texas area, where I'll be spending all of IAP (and the summer ... motoring after using nothing but the MBTA and Amtrak for twelve months

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007