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• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  about private vs. public high schools. Why do some schools send so many ... public school might have equal stats, more activities, and a much lower ... schools happen to have the personality that clicks with MIT? I'm speaking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you ... that every MIT degree is made equal, whether that means a 5.0 GPA or a 3 ... degree, I ultimately decided it was something that made me unhappy and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  , Minerva has significantly changed their educational and business model, and ... Ivy League schools, and the elastic enrollment afforded by Minerva ... (former head of the New School), and Pat Harker (president of the University

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  scholarships other schools are offering? @Max: I say go ahead and write it in ... questions. Unlike US high schools, Myanmar schools offer student up to 10th ... front of you. As best I can tell, your school gives a grade for each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  applications? Do you get the summer off? Actually, it is a busy (though certainly ... international admissions officers and college guidance counselors from schools ... meet many different college counselors from schools across the world

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  CANCELLATIONS IN ALL SORTS OF TRANSPORTATION DEPENDENT BUSINESS. SNOWFALL RATES ... BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE SNOW AND WIND CHILLS IN THE 5 TO 15 DEGREE RANGE

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  , and rapidly decreasing) degree, and my composure will vary drastically ... : "...Noooooo, he looks busy, maybe I'm bothering him. I'll just sit over here by ... already knew a good number of my classmates from high school or from the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  too much consequence in my graduate school application, since I already rocked the GRE general test, will be graduating with two degrees, have a ... busy semester for me. I suppose I will usually spend 8-10 hours on my 5

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with Biomedical Engineering ... University in England. I am reading for a Masters degree in Integrated ... your college's dining hall. Not all colleges have them, but mine offers

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  :30-10:00 PM. Saturday -- Giving tours of my dorm, 1:00-5:00 PM. Graduate school I have decided where I'm going to grad school! (Actually, I decided a long time ago. But I was sick of talking about grad school.) I'm heading

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  ;   I started programming in high school and I loved it. I also volunteered abroad in high school, in Guatemala twice and India once, shaping my ... place to do this. The planning department offers a wide array of material

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  . MIT is not a school for the daintily-shod. For that, I direct you to the sun-drenched, flip-flop-friendly sidewalks of that other school in ... playground of optical physics and offers to give you plenty of brain candy if

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  course, to sit down with the course catalogue, your intended degree ... you want to soldier on, though, you can just look at the degree ... various courses are offered. Plan on spending freshman year on the GIRs, don

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  can go to schools around the world during January and teach classes ... walked through the front entrance of the Shoqan School and was serenaded by ... Friday, right near the entrance of the school was a table full of more

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  later, I had produced this image, a "diploma mock-up -- for illustrative ... between me and an MIT diploma is ICE 2. I remember lounging around my suite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  was too busy tooling psets and recovering from sleep deprivation. (If ... weekend in the White Mountains. The PE course offering at MIT is incredibly ... your Swim Test offered in the beginning of the year, and it basically

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  CTY also offer distance learning courses during the school year, which ... day for three weeks taking one course for high school credit, while ... 's Talent Identification Program offers the option of either taking classes

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What programs does Office of Minority Education offer?

  society. Matriculation to one of the world’s top schools of science and
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer undergraduate admission ... among the many stellar students to whom we are not offering admissions ... ago, my bright-eyed, blog-lurking high-school self applied to MIT EA

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  'm going to school in Boston remark on how cold it is, but the most jarring ... reading a school email once every month or two: “With the consideration of ... Schedule In high school I went to sleep around 10:30 pm, and woke up at

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025