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  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  where to apply Tips on the application components Why I chose MIT ... Admissions and am starting school again, more on that later.) This is just ... on GPA and extracurriculars than research experience (but it’s the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  today it smelled like the boxes stacked on the furniture and the floor and stacked on each other, full of stuff my dad and I had bought my last week home on 2 am trips to Wal-Mart through empty dark streets in my pick

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT ... get funding to work on it…? Second, you need to understand Oniongate. There is a vague community of MIT-adjacent people interacting on Twitter

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  on to who I thought I was. I remember letting go. I remember accepting ... . The icon on the browser changes, from the letter M to a spinner. Seconds ... . (Why else are our memories like frames on camera film?) Because: life can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  the graders will spend no more than a couple of minutes on your essay ... ) explicitly on a silver platter. The most compelling essays I feel are those that sufficiently paint the picture for the reader, and then leave him on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds ... ? Because on April 5, 1936, something profoundly strange was being hauled up ... was later lowered and set on fire (I think) on the grass between the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  bag and show you what’s in mine on any given day. (I actually did just ... commute killah. Need to be on a bus/train/plane for a long time, but not ... Pad Mini - I do a fair amount of review-level work on an iPad while sitting

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  Photo Credit: Eric Schmiedl My family came into town on Wednesday ... on our first Valentine's Day together. I attached him to my mortarboard ... 't have my camera on me, but I've pulled some pictures from The Tech of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  wrong: you still can’t do minute math properly but you are good at math ... , although you’re friends on Facebook. You have a lot of different friends now ... , too. You’re not as scary as you think, cutie. I read this post on the

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  constantly. Fifteen minutes before the scheduled time of release, I began

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• 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 ... posting art on our recently created artstagrams here and here! We are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Wear silly hats on Halloween. Realize Halloween is only once a year. Wear silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get ... friends wearing silly hats. Go on Nerf fights. Spend hours wandering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  't even mandatory for you anymore and I have no idea what's going on with ... freshman class website is often frustratingly vague on this topic ... bloggers have already composed pages and pages on this topic during their

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  the season on the Charles River this past Monday night. The view is of ... the Great Dome, this past Monday night on the left and this past summer on the right. Zooming in reveals a snowman and a snow dalek in front of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million ... movie that caught my attention: Hold on, what was that? On his ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• 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 ... to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... on hacking at MIT. Hacking at MIT has nothing to do with breaking into

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  off-by-one error on your application: But even if you didn’t discover ... your dreams for dear life, meet your decision head-on, and emerge with ... particularly helpful for passing the time on the morning of decision day. Have

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... little to do, and I ended up desperately catching up on fiction, doing ... to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  Hello, everyone! Most especially, hello 2019s everywhere! I ran around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall ... taken on pi day, so it's still a pi day video! Good luck to all you 2019s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  The last time I was on an airplane, I was in an aisle seat getting my ... last time I was on an airplane, I was going the other direction - San Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006