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  A week in the life

  

  design part of the lab was helpful studying for one of the quiz sections ... hosing. So I will post about what I did this week - a sort of "sample week in the life of an MIT student" thing. Psets/Projects -7.03 (Genetics

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  .) Unfortunately, I went to a big public high school of about 2000+, so my high ... leading to a discussion of my high school's terrible homecoming theme ... school teachers, seeing as she's a brilliant lady with a fantastic sense of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  poor family and a bad school, which would you take?" Well, of course this ... morning of reading, I had lunch at the Stata Center (or Building 32, or ... another of Frank Gehry's buildings, Disney Hall in Los Angeles, might have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the ... high school student, and which I have been involved with as a student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  ) Huckabees, School of Rock, and Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle. There ... Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First ... advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of events on our campus and we're thrilled that so many of you will be here to enjoy the weekend with us. Each one of us in the Admissions Office has a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  -other-category-you choose students. The difficulty with school wasn’t due largely to rigor of ... mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though ... an ethnic category through no choice of their own, had it easier at

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  , while you're thinking of it. And I certainly recommend contacting your EC ... Jeopardy-style questions. It will be more along the lines of Tell me about ... to MIT? What might you be interested in studying? Those kinds of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  , who was one of MIT's Educational Counselors, or ECs. He had retired to ... MIT just before the onset of World War II, and his MIT, while having the ... 20-20 hindsight of an admissions officer, I suspect that interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school ... to think of at the moment. When high school came around, the notion of ... of 'school-sponsored activity' - not nearly as catch-phrase-y and often

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  time of your high school career, much like being a first semester MIT ... completely lost all control of any higher brain function. I've spent the last two weeks hooked up to a machine with my tongue hanging out of my mouth

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  folders (I'm kind of a laptop organization freak): "Grad School Apps," "La ... interview. So here goes. In my senior year of high school, I was living in ... a lifestyle change: *     *     * Post-MIT life involves a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  I think one of the greatest things about going to college is the amount of time you have outside of the school year to explore different ... , which is slightly scary, but also kind of odd, since with med school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  's around 60% of classes."]many MIT classes[/annotation] fall into two main archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the classes, I'll mention grading a lot. Of course, grading is only a small part

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  .341 project last fall.) All right, maybe "gorgeous" is a bit of a stretch. I've been floating around this school for the last couple of months doing ... far-ish away, I went to high school in a low-income area of Fort

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  Activities Period, Period of Independence and Activity-Doing! I've lived here ... ? :) --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- EDIT. I've received some feedback about people related to some of the ... ! Please check out the picture of dinner below and the links, and I hope to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  install a billion types of software. Over the last few weeks, I've had to ... specific distance individually. So yeah... For design computing, we got to ... ’s calendar and wanted to follow up with mine... Look at that sea of blue

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  Hi folks, Jess sent me an email a few days ago making fun of me for ... apologize; we've been working 7-day weeks since January reading all of your ... those who meet all of the following criteria: You have applied for

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Decisions Coming soon to a web site near you!

  

  of the following criteria: You have applied for freshman admission (not ... year (as designated in your MyMIT account) is 2008 ... .mit.edu. Will there be any indication of my admissions decision in my My

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  first day of school (you know, the ones that came with the crayon ... biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005