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  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  required or even expected. In general, you should not send supplemental material unless the application did not sufficiently show who you are. I hope ... date of birth are included. You do not need to be a music major for this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  to work on them. And then I was out the whole weekend, from Friday ... spent. That after this streak of work, I’m going to crash. You hate your ... semester to say. Here’s At Least I’m Not as Sad (As I Used to Be) from the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  than I asked for. However, looking back, I could not be happier that I ... was to teach you how to write proofs and not necessarily focus on the ... class a tad bit overconfident and not as concerned that the class would be

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  work for a college which had legacy admission because I am not interested ... Journal about whether or not colleges should consider legacy in the admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  . You get judged not only on how many points your robot scores during the ... contribute? Were your mentors appropriately involved (i.e., guiding, but not doing)? And so the winning teams are not necessarily the ones that have

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  about, but if you tell me, I will, but my lack of blogging is not the ... , going somewhere away from home so that I could not go home to do laundry ... didn't know anyone who had been accepted I did not really know who went

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  . So, no, it does not matter that your work is incomplete. Harish wrote ... consider that. As for your independent thoughts -- it's not going to work ... optional essay. Rushil wrote, "Does it matter that my research is not fully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while ... field a team for puzzlehunts and work together for a weekend. i did work ... good. but maybe it would've been better if i spent that time working on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  contact hours. Course work at Cambridge revolves around supervisions. Each supervision is paired with some form of work. This work could consist of an ... the work and hand it in 24 hours before the supervision so that they

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  start on the construction after finals week, for fear of not getting anything else done. But, of course, as soon as classes ended I set to work ... working off of pictures, designs of smaller cameras, and anything else I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  that Pass/No Record does not mean that you can just sit around and have ... although I worked harder than I ever had before and felt like I learned as ... really does not like me.  But I'm done with math and science general

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  lunch. It's not the best lunch, but it's what works. Then I go to class ... you just miss East Campus?" "Maybe? But it's not as if East Campus is ... notebook, and she greets me good morning too. I work on a problem set for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  objection to this) i’m not trying to convince you that all work is defense ... :  there are some basic principles at work here:  when a player is open on ... shots more often than when they’re not open. therefore, defenses usually

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  ’m currently thinking through - when I write (or do any other public work), how ... pain on the other hand: advertising works. recruiting works. activism works. these fields are built around the premise that you can change the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  major. Not too long before that, I blogged about how I had no clue what I ... much in that position.  But it’s weird though. It’s not like I have just ... . That thermo unit in AP chem did not vibe with me; it was downright brutal

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Vroom Vroom! Hey! I know him!

  

  .004 and I've worked with him on a variety of other projects. He's always ... on. Updates like it works it works it works it works it works it works it works it works it works it works it works First kart road test, N52

  • by Snively '11
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  place not too far from work. There was no cake, but plenty of baklava, so ... anniversary, or goes on vacation, they bring cake to work. They send a ... bakery on the way to work.    I showered quickly, put on one of my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  work at the last minute. Or maybe you’re just not really sure if you want ... biographical information. I’m not being paid to say this, but I thought the MIT ... have, but it ended up working. I had a nice conversation with my EC that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  , shaking, and sifting, not thinking much at all except keeping track of how ... extraordinary for my digital photography life. (Photography people, try not to ... are some of my works from the semester so far; the first is a rayogram

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  's not Tennyson or anything, but... Oh MIT, OH MIT Many are the reasons ... sing This is true--it's not a lore! Oh MIT. You offer us experience ... . You provide us with a home-- an often-decorated dome (by the work of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012