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  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  a daily basis about school assignments, and I spent a good portion of ... in my life would hold this against me. I missed a month of school ... March 13th, school had been called off for the next couple of weeks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness. After a few semesters of psets, midterms, finals, and projects, that once youthful prefrosh full of joy and excitement can seem a long way away. Ring

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman ... go way back, to high school, actually, and then to last April, when I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  )I'm almost not sure if I should mention this, but my friend Ankur '03 is one of ... the geek category: alums of Caltech and the University of Chicago.Regular action applicants across the country are concerned about the processing of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  arts colleges. Two of them were safety state schools. I would have gone ... , this time we tried the recommended MailChimp technique of combining lists. The expected outcome of this approach is that all student accounts in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  You know those “four seasons” posters that elementary school teachers ... with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and back to green. Even past elementary school, in fact--my high school’s

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I was browsing some of my old blog idea Google docs the other day ... some of these things. Since freshman spring, I only ever taken as many ... I looked over the list, it sort of struck me at how few of those

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  off because of the negative audience reaction to her. I think if you ... that the aggressiveness was sort-of how she wanted to be perceived with ... doesn't necessarily mean the viewers did. First of all, she killed Shannon

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  school, for more than 30 years MIT has helped shape the field of cancer research, from the isolation of the first human cancer genes to the development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  touch, old-school; a bang of thunder on the west horizon, hair and wind ... lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those competitive high schools, ran the college-admissions rat race, and kept running

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  off to Darbonne, the epicenter of the earthquake, to see the school ... Yesterday was one of those days where we were fortunate enough to have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story ... helpful. There are a number of things I could discuss about this ... this: I got a lot out of writing about my experience at MIT-- the ups and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  in terms of geographic outreach but also its structure of different ... data to the schools where the challenge is proctored to help them ... they can register their schools for the exam. If you're an American

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  School Report, can also be downloaded from MyMIT. The deadline extension means that you should you should click the final "submit" button of your ... over the holidays and is, even as I write, busily processing all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in CA, IL, MI, NV, OH MIT Admissions starts to look forward to the Class of 2013 (!).

  

  a great opportunity for high school sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place. Each school will talk a ... 're excited to have these conversations with your counselor about the state of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  I see that there's been a bit of discussion in the comments about the ... set of scores now; we won't need them until we go into the Early Action ... , we will consider all of your new scores. MidYear Grades: We do not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  school: Troy High SchoolCollege: MIT '05, BiologyFavorite thing about MIT ... up until 5am talking to friends instead of doing problem sets. I never ... city is so diverse and you can find almost any kind of food all over the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I prepare for my 4-year journey that will probably include a lot of late ... preparedness for this next stage of my life. More specifically, the independence

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  to a time in sophomore year of high school when it made me so happy i ... high school, but times that i remember with the sort of fondness that ... i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the ... the Visiting Committee. The Visiting Committee is made up of members of the MIT Corp., faculty from other schools and donors/sponsors to both

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011