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FAQ / First-year application
How do I fill out the self-reported coursework?
Use your best judgment when completing the Self-Reported Coursework section. We're simply trying to get a clear picture of your academic ... must be sent to us from your school to verify your self -
FAQ / Interview
What if my interview is waived?
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 ... admissions committee will be aware that we were unable to offer you an -
Blog / Academics & Research
TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!
Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... methods that scientists use to detect exoplanets is the transit method. When -
Blog / Challenges
Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2
!"]Simmons[/annotation], and then we walked over to [annotation note="another dorm, where a bunch of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around 10, I left to pack for my flight home, but instead ended up walking out -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all
books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a ... Alan sent out invites to join a summer poetry group — summertry, we -
Blog / MIT Life
sk8 jebby on a skateboard
also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the ... local sports store. It was supposed to be a prop. I was subscribed to ... told all of my friends that this was going to be the summer that I was -
Blog / Class Projects
2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life
for mechanical engineering students (aka gotta take one of them to graduate). The premise of this class is to ideate, design, build, and present ... thousands on a wait list to get tickets. ~40,000 The number of people -
Blog / Academics & Research
Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)
to do it had our freaking amazing friend not helped us from 11pm - 2am ... Ring Comm Study Break to help plan, and we were assigned 8 – we repeat E ... parenthesis correspond to notes at the end of the post) : Saturday 10:30am -
Blog / Academics & Research
Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement
your mind and body. We’re actually recommended to wear long sleeve shirts and jeans to shield ourselves from the heat. Anyways, we also learned how to collect the glass from the furnace on a pipe or punty (long rod -
Blog / Athletics
A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way
out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... on campus before heading off to Israel. Winter training basically means all the MIT crew teams ship out down to Cocoa Beach, FL, and spend -
Blog / Personal Travel
Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.
't line up properly; your workload is far more than you're used to or should be used to, and things hit you one after another. Last week, I had ... school anymore. Okay, so it's Columbus Day. Same thing, to non-Jewish me -
Blog / Academics & Research
Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.
the summer to sit down and write them out. Two semesters in, and the ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of opinions, but the mind has always been fascinating to me. This is one of the -
Blog / Events
In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.
For several weeks now, I've been actively intending to write about ... and immensely bloggable. Now that we've sipped through autumn down to ... day on which I will again not tell you about FASAP. Except, that is, to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.
, my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... limited amount of storage space in Burton-Conner and only had access to the ... . Our room was like a maze for a few days. Responses to comments -
Blog / About Decisions
The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.
The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May ... good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you make your decision? What more would you like to know about MIT -
Blog / MIT Life
Finding heritage at MIT
this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of crufty alums being around in the last serveral days, in part to various other things going on which I will not bother to ennumerate here. The -
Blog / How to Human
Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.
This entry is ostensibly a guide to purchasing an appropriate cell ... students. In reality, however, it's just an excuse for me to advertise this ... , suddenly, when I got to MIT, they became completely ubiquitous. The first -
Blog / How to MIT
24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!
Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in ... are only relevant to my first semester. I'm going through them now (3/16/2020) to see if there's anything I should remove or add :) MIT has been -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime
was [annotation note="I turned 21 and went to The Muddy, MIT's grad ... Christmas and it's okay to listen to Christmas music again, and SPOTIFY ... cheap to pay for the full version, lol"]too impatient[/annotation] to wait