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• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  University of Pennsylvania, which had recruited me for their creative writing ... don't offer the financial stability of an established company. But even ... break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  Ever wonder how a Formula 1 car can reach speeds of 210 mph and pull ... compete against 130 other vehicles from universities across the country? If ... UROP, offers an exceptional opportunity to apply concepts taught in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google ... , you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing this out) Freshman year, one of my classes was actually taught by former

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?

  -year applicant regardless of how many units of study you may have taken at the university level. Information on transfer credit is available at the Office of
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  science aspect of my degree altogether and dedicated myself to sociology ... In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... Addresses important, current debates in media with in-depth discussion of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  adults. Former Director of Admissions Matt forced me to practice driving as we visited high schools together in the suburbs of Boston, and he very ... of this,” I thought to myself as I clenched everything

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  been plunged untethered into the center of the universe, submerged in a ... thought the whole world should cater to the dominance of their own language ... -baked strategy was to affect a sort of sheepish self-awareness—as I butchered every

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great – I use them often to reroute my train of thought away from worry or overwhelmedness – but I also find a lot of solace in kind, honest words. So that

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • December 16, 2015
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  We don't have any age limits or restrictions. If you've been away from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... courses at a community college or in a non-degree program prior to applying
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  degrees!!!   (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  big university in Tokyo that's pretty famous for taking a lot of foreign ... of study in that university (this test is usually later, in February or ... popular in Japan. There is usually very little mention of Lilo, however. 52

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  "]2.009.[/annotation]  After 2.009, nine of us continued working on the ... out how much of our name to capitalize. We’re digging into market research, learning the ins and outs of team formation, and testing our

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your colleges, so I thought I'd offer you a little advice of my own. More specifically, I'm going to lead by example by posting some of my own writing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort next to a 360-degree student-built gyroscope ride in the middle of one of our fields. I’ve seen students participate in a petting zoo in front of

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  most of what the studio above my old middle school had to offer, but at ... concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we swung around and spun each other very fast. The tire swing reminded me of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  going to four different places, so I thought I could offer some reviews of ... things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I ... Spencer '07 in a 654-seat theater. That's a lot of seats. Now, I have to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... degrees Fahrenheit. Not too bad, but warmer and more humid that I’d prefer ... middle of the tropics. (OK, bad analogy, but you get the point.) I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  ="MIT offers a special opportunity for students to acquire a masters degree in ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... weeks ago, I flew home to California. If you've read any of my past

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  , by the way, offers free delivery for orders of two drinks or more ... Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston, I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010