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• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I made at the beginning of my freshmen fall. I run from the people I ... it's you. At the end of the day, you are the common thread in all of ... the pits of your stomach. And so you start to overcompensate for that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  never heard of anything worse. Just the idea of a virtual office hour ... . Ah, bless the liberation of burnout-born apathy! So I left it half done ... writing thingies. 11 out of 17 cases was okay because, y’know, the world is

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  as part of the admissions process. You can read about our revised ... discontinue the use of subject tests starting with the 2020-21 admissions cycle ... grades and coursework, are predictive of success in our challenging

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  (RA). Many of you may still have questions so I'm posting a quick entry ... EA but ran out of time. If you are retaking tests in December or ... sense of your chances of being admitted to MIT. However, in the last few

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  're done.” Don’t think of all the ways you could have made the application, or the life described in it, better. Think of your wonderful high ... productive high school years, congratulations! Your story is now part of MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  -cranked generators, and a few other circuitry elements. The purpose of this lesson was to learn about power distribution and to gain a sense of the how the ... small group discussions about online privacy and a range of other topics

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  Tomorrow is, yes, the First of May[?], which means those of you who ... ), I've prepared the following list of guidelines: Your username must ... nicknames of a sort for people, so consider whether you'd be comfortable being

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who ... end result? A HACK!! It was raised from the ceiling of Stata the night before the one-year memorial of Officer Sean Collier. It was such a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  socialization aspect of Science League than the exams.) September of senior year ... confession would confirm - escaping math and science was one of the things I ... year at MIT right now, I clearly got more out of that info session than

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography ... member of the Theta Xi fraternity. Last Friday, with Rush winding down, we ... MIT with all sorts of misconceptions about fraternities. We're all

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  . Well - story of my life. At the turn of the new year, I posted a number of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to ... edged into those rare un-mathematical intervals of time. To start: I had

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  If you've visited the MIT campus you know that throughout much of the ... however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of ... across the room. There were looks of surprise, happiness, and even some

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have wondered where the rest of us were during IAP, if not building snowmen, solving brain-busting puzzles, and taking classes on the other side of the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  So...there's this Mystery Hunt thing...you might have heard of it. It's awesome. It's lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or ... tells me that there are 115 people!), and probably 1/4 or 1/3 of those are

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  telling you about my bitterness? Because it's an important part of my life. No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who ... of the year when life explodes in your face. Currently, I am in one of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal ... of admissions decision letters. Joanne writes: Having worked in the admissions office for a million years, currently serving as the director of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  write 6,000 words of blog entries on an 8-hour train ride, if you just ... the form of a McDonald's in Marseille, France. Seriously. As Samuel L ... of their sandwiches is called a Croque McDo, which I guess must be some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  needs the kind of leaders and thinkers who graduate from MIT. By finding ... to all of our admitted students, without regard to their economic ... general Institute funds. Sixty-four percent of undergraduates qualify for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  few things I can think of.. Things To Do While Waiting For College ... about your future. Then write a song about it. Preferably in the style of ... gain lots of knowledge...") 3. Think hard about not being one of those

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  , because I don't actually have to think about the implications of anything I discovered, I just have to cite old papers done by other members of my lab and ... this paper, since I've done basically all of the work on it; my postdoc

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006