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  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  . paper- vs. computer-based test). We recommend scores of at least 100 ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... definition. For purposes of MIT Admissions, an international student is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pixar Pi

  

  way you want them to, it's easy to feel down. Look at all of the good ... Waiting for decisions sometimes made us feel like kids, scared of the monsters in our closet ready to jump out at us. If you’re feeling like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

   have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of ... his visit, but at the same time it made me soberingly-aware of how much ... him, sure, but at the same time I couldn't help but take in some of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... Truman's blog. A-ha! Hacking at MIT! There have been a bunch of entries ... incentive for me to just enjoy looking at the fire truck on top of the dome

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... graduate school in biology at a time when a lot of my friends from high ... discarded because of my gender -- people at MIT just aren't like that. As long

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... room and see if we could find pieces of ourselves reflected back at us ... natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  made our bay in lab two semesters ago (at right). The smell of Cambridge ... summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  look of sadness when it came. I figured, MIT is for those other kids at ... Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  world. Many of us read at home 5-6 days of the week throughout November ... with the same people. Moving at a [annotation note='For those of you who ... of committee and various checks and balances. At the end of the process

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time with headphones on, staring at the computer screen. Perpetual state of ... could handle a light load, so I could at least get a couple of my GIRs out

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  , aeronautical, and nuclear engineering, all of which were pioneered at MIT ... Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of ... the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences ... twinstagram lol We're bad at goodbye's so, for realsies now, bye!

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  I'm interviewing at five of the top seven programs in biology -- and ... project -- some of my friends at other schools have had "research positions ... Well, I'm packing tonight for my interview at UCLA's ACCESS biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  an MIT Gangnam Style. At the beginning of October, I started seeing ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views, as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  who were really really good at not falling as well. I wasn't one of ... God that the snow at the bottom of the hill is soft (it wasn't. The real ... with supposedly clever sayings about boxes of chocolates, games of cards

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  tip: don’t get sick while at MIT. So when my friend Roxana '09 suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at ... activities for the past two weeks have been working during the day, working at

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  when I was little (at 3 or 4 years old, my grandmother took care of me ... of course say, “we are Americans”. But when I looked around at my ... ’t believe I was really Chinese, always looking only at the color of my skin

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  locations at MIT? For those of you just joining me, you might be wondering ... option and an afternoon option. Since only 32 classes at MIT out of over ... class into your already busy schedule. I have had the fortune of taking at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both ... ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006