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  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  example (in case one is admitted at all) to have pointed School of Engineering in one's application and decide to go to School of Management ... each program has to offer." This is correct. Approximately 50% of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  's Habitat for Humanity group Like Elyse, Christi is busy busy; one of her ... (See Bryan's entry for more pictures of and information about the ... this is a picture of you, but I'm not sure.) Some of my suitemates

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  In today's The Sunday Times, one of the United Kingdom's most respected newspapers, rising MIT sophomore Grace Kane '11, a native of Glasgow ... drinking in Scotland by people under the age of 21, though the legal drinking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Admitted Students

  

  This was the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute, and you are one of the very few applicants to whom we offered admission. Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2015! Feel free to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  of selection. Things are going well; for some reason I'm enjoying ... guys are just awesome and inspiring. Probably a combo of the two. In any ... applications from people who have no business applying to MIT to liven up

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  . SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p ... n00bs" and then immediate proceed thinking, "Wait I'm not one of you ... feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a ... with a cute story about his first day of grad school at MIT. He told us ... recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  I never ended up sticking with them. Outside of School -many ... note="until AC came in and confused the shit out of me"]coolest thing ... Friday afternoon, but I’d always come out of it with a cool device, feeling

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  foreign schools"][/annotation] started today— much to the dismay of my ... of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  school only offered APUSH, so I went ahead and did AP Euro and AP World on ... streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  school required everyone to do some form of self-directed research project ... , who first figured out how to build such a sculpture out of business ... Lydia here: some of my favorite things I’ve learned at MIT, from my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone ... from years of watching [annotation note="my favorites are coolirpa ... celebrate completing half of our undergraduate journey through hell the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  nearest grocery store. There’s a gas station, two schools, and a cluster of ... donned my most comfortable pair of sweatpants (Manchester United sweatpants ... marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  cause us to take back our offer of admission, but slipping too much could ... profile which gives us a bunch of info (courses offered, range of grades ... description of the school's location and local resources, etc.) Then the GC will

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  Rhode Island School of Design. I majored in Illustration and I knew I ... photos of their loved ones and leave out food and offerings that their ... A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  sophomore year of high school. Even with me diving head-first into studying for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... application process has just started to wind up, but they do offer a ton of very

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  total of 6 years.) Besides the time-savings, I am excited about this program because it offers a way to cap off a lot of theoretical learning ... courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  of Logan airport last Friday, including Celebrated Fellow Blogger Joel B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at least one of us knew left and right--students going to London, Iceland

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  about engineering leadership? There are a lot of different businesses out ... When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of ... little hazy on the distinction of what makes an engineering leader, so at

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010