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  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  .260 Professor James head-on because I'm busy scrutinizing the 5.60 pset ... from my high school. He graduated in my high school class, but he zipped ... days. I am crossing my fingers that the water is at least 50 degrees C

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B ... different careers. He started off in the “flour business and industry” in ... construction work, Toros returned briefly to the flour business, but soon became

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  the stage and get their diplomas. We got pictures together and ate ... so busy has been draining, regardless of enjoyment. The truth is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  to connect high school students from those backgrounds with top ... to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high-school ... and San Francisco where everything was too busy, too loud, and too

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  mathematics that may be offered by their school.”"]recommended high school ... ="79491" /] The MIT Application for Admission from Secondary School Introduction Set ... recommenders, and school counselors: Director’s Letter Undergraduate Life

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  from high school. Trying to find a parking spot in Spain. Ice skating ... , high school was like the college applications dragon and his dad ... lives won’t be dragons that a college degree could help with, and I am

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... about missing me while I was off at grad school, and now, I'm reposting this as we all miss Ben while he's off working at a different school

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  does Daily Table do all this? Well, a Harvard Business School case study ... simultaneously by offering: a wide variety of fresh and healthy produce, grocery ... donated excess inventory, 20% was opportunity buys from vendors offering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  , and penchant for offering room and board to wayward nerds. My own love ... Erich's photography business. He said he was filling up terabyte drives at ... here from school who was also visiting, we conclusively decided that it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of 85 degrees. 12 wheels grip plywood from three directions, binding car ... high school accomplishments, which the new freshmen had been adding to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  prospective 6-3 diploma. My initial attitude was something like, you got this, Michelle. You were Good at Things in high school, remember? You won stuff ... to grad school and research. Hence 18/18C, 17, 14, and possibly even 8

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and ... ’t even really considering graduate school. However, in the last year, I ... I want to do after grad school. I was a bit taken aback, because

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  touched upon by anything in her high school’s class offerings, but who ... My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the ... public science and engineering magnet high school that runs an annual

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  nine, one of my high school teachers took a couple of us on an out-of-state excursion. I attended a small, fenced boarding school so the thought of ... arrived at our location—one of my high school’s other national branches

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  can determine whether you’re offered admission to a school that have ... school or where you’re from geographically or what your gender is. You can ... a school you love is crushing, and it can often be framed in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  academic policies for incoming first-year students! Starting next school year ... , there are no credit restrictions. MIT will no longer offer Early ... Committee on the Undergraduate Program (CUP) in the 2020–2021 school year

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  receptionist at the desk gave me some forms to fill out, so I busied myself with ... their busy lives. Heck, it happens to people all the time without them ... . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , whatever you want to call it, with 5 degrees of freedom (aka it can move the ... sketchbook since high school. An unexpected yet welcome consequence of this ... , which I’ve had since like middle school, and took a bunch of footage to

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  to survive college and maybe even leave with a degree and some shreds ... prerequisite to becoming a professor at this school. It'd be a big mistake to ... . And then I check answers with other students and offer and receive help

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... fifth-degree polynomial, because it's well-known that work varies as the ... 'm headed to UC Berkeley for grad school. Of course, the data also predicts

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007