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• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  So, Online Freshman Advising Folders became available on Monday ... , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with ... .716" is way too much for me. How do you even say that out loud? Isn't it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  online, but people make plenty of those jokes during Orientation, so I'll save mine for then.) There are lots of sessions for PE classes -- 2 ... little late for that. I hope I don't end up like my friend Rose, who took

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  dish and add a small amount of salt. Cook on high in the microwave for ... it from. Effort: 3 Ingredients: Beef or pork pre-cut for slow ... cranberries. Cook on high for five hours or on low for eight hours while you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me ... for it and make my dreams come true. [caption id="attachment_116958 ... friends are moving away, waiting for grad school decisions, etc. I wrote all

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009 (when he last blogged for MIT Admissions) as a brief intro: Daniel is the ... industry, including stints on "all three sides of the fence" -- working for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to ride on Space Mountain, I wait for 8-12 hours to get front row at a ... nothing they could do, so I luckily found replacement pit tickets for $80

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  physics, then I teeter-tottered with a few other majors during my quest for ... the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, and it is actually ... , look online, and see all this hype around the acronym UROP; Undergraduate

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  could interview me over email for an article she's writing, on how ... simply because of an internet profile? Do you think it is fair for that to happen? I have heard of other schools using information found online to

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  is my favorite time of the year! I love registering for classes because ... ."]REST[/annotation]. I know for sure I am taking [annotation note="Oral Communication"]6 ... .g., city government, NGO, academic researcher, media outlet, community

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  FPOP. We caught up for a bit, reminisced about how quickly time has flown ... choreography for my new free program. That evening, I got a call for an ... . I got everything booked quickly and prepared myself for yet another

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  matter up since the Online Application Tracking has a checkbox for the Mid ... . Please don't worry, and there's no need to call the office for at least ... laugh, connect with us. But you don't want to give us reason for pause

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  song Yakko's Universe from Animaniacs, and Pokémon for nostalgia) After ... to an online forum or writing those thank-you cards you’ve been meaning to for a couple of months. Some of my favorite organized internet

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  this online- I think you’re just awesome in general. To those few in the ... algorithm for getting into MIT. Hopefully these general guidelines can help ... /11/11 was the most universally auspicious time for me to contact my

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  absorb as much as I could, with a goal (just for fun) of finding another ... ’ve seen the encyclopedia of an events list that we all got for CPW ... , these Course 2 (MechE) majors made a spot for me and my disdainful poetry

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  and searched all the counters and drawers for a key that might quite ... neurotic college applicant waiting for a decision. (Come on, who can blame ... when I walked in. Go ahead, laugh at me for overreacting and nearly

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  approach to introductory chemistry for those who aren't planning to go into a ... Sadoway comes highly regarded for his engaging lecture style. This course ... single two-hour class periods. An online homework system called Mastering

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  example; feel free to skip to the bullet points at the end of this section."]For ... , ready for change, and safe from bugs.[/annotation] I knew I lacked ... . For example, in our codebase we use Redux Toolkit. To understand the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  knowledge to people around the world for free, it should and would. I was busy ... or protect themselves from online education. Then MIT stepped in the ... potential to be, MIT's rationale for it was even more powerful. MIT was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  makes Seattle the city it is. For lack of a better word, it ... : "..." Friend: "...I freaking love this city." Here in Seattle, you see, there ... guys come out for the parades: That's a pirate ship in downtown

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions ... digression: through a stroke of luck, my car rental reservation for a sedan was ... collect temperature and cloud data for NASA with the Globe Observer citizen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024