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• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  posts are kind of tear-jerkers (they were for me at least), but they will ... this year, there were a few who really got to me, and when they didn't get in, the tears came. Some would call me foolish for getting this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  about their experiences. Plus it was a lot of fun. Alice Brooks told me about being on Shark Tank, I had Bernard Gordon try to convince me to go ... Goldstein, a venture capitalist, gave me a few pointers on my product pitch

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  , it dawned on me that I would actually be eligible for many internships ... an internship, it’s very important for me to have a sense of what ... for IROP, which took me to Hong Kong for the summer. Also, I'm pretty

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and ... the answer is 5″. Sometimes “just algebra” takes me an hour. 3 ... /worse at (math takes me forever, but physics is usually ok). In high school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  projects and whatnot. This is a new phenomenon for me: I had a bit of an ... me to not be involved with much of anything, so I set out to fix that ... Information Act, which allowed me to send the following to the Federal Bureau of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  are no silly videos of me singing off-tune today. There are no silly ... , Professor Tapscott, being the total boss professor that he is, gave me the go ... she doesn’t love me back. Why does life suck so much? I love Rosa

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  worries though, I've transcribed here every question someone asked me ... email me and I'll get to it when I can. Please put "Question about MIT" in ... fine for me, but above all your writing should feel natural to you. If

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  are better if you do them with the big crowd, and for me, given a chance ... . Professor Lander was great; but for me, I felt that it wasn't completely worth ... " - just allow me to say that I feel if you are a student at MIT, you should

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  semester that I've taken more than 2 8-classes a term. And let me tell you ... . Really. Which brings me to my main point: You hear it a lot. Do what you ... wanted to prove she wasn't. This made me very sad and I told her that if

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  week that no one (okay, I'm generalizing here - perhaps it's only me ... beautiful afternoons along the river cheered me up. It's a standing joke ... disastrous interview that I told you about on the top? The interviewer told me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  are pretty much set on going to CPW with me, how is that going to work ... me know and I can probably arrange one ... still can't believe it! wow!!! Could someone please tell me if and when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of ... take the state certification exam in a couple of weeks, so wish me luck ... ! Lindley: hey Laura! you called me on the telethon. when u called i was just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  exam....but my transcripts dont reflect these (puts me at a disadvantage ... percentile. To give me some credit I am currently in chemistry and physics so ... grade). So will my horrible score count against me that much? Also, will

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  . ^^;; )" Call me Matt! Thanks for coming to the session. For those of you who have ... suggests" me to take the TOEFL. I've neither seen nor taken the TOEFL. On the ... IIs, and my scores are high. So in my case, would you rather advise me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  large even for me, so it's a bit difficult on city sidewalks. Still, she ... bike down to Chinatown. And let me say, for a girl who's been so ... % of the dishes contain shrimp, which makes me throw up a little in my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  stop me from trying?*grin*" I'm sorry that I'm not able to provide all ... question, but did get me to finally look up the meaning of the phrase "chak ... googling now tells me that it means "cast it off," or "let it go," or "throw

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  to be calmed by a swim in cold water. Mira tells me about her past ... makes me really happy: I think, in another life, I’m an experimental ... ’t feel as excited by anything else in science, so it makes me wonder

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  many weight classes above me. I wrestled some number of times, including ... tried to kick a small target on someone who’s running away from me. By the ... absolutely suck at. I would often miss the ball right in front of me, but by

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging career behind me, I wrote a reflection post after being out in the real ... know it – maybe suddenly in your 20s or 30s, like me – they’ll be gone

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  seen in my life). His catch phrase (he would hate me for calling it that ... /22/2024] Today, sorbet made me think about how important it is to keep going. Fruit ... on campus, there would be a bunch of people asking me why it wasn

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024