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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  early decision or early action to a lot of really awesome schools. So in ... Just saying hello from the middle of my peaceful and relaxing vacation. =) First of all, now that all of the early action nonsense is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  Last April, as part of a high school assignment, I was required to ... decisions (of which I will write soon) ensued, but one entry, written on a ... Weekend) schedule, determined to favorite a decent number of events and plan

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  middle of high school, however, there was a point at which I kind of ... accomplishments at MIT include being an Emerson Piano Scholar and winner of the MIT ... Goldberg Variations, of which you can listen to here (LARGE file

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  The Last Supper, but never got around to it due to the stress of school ... collected in high school hang proudly on the walls instead. Some of the ... that are much too feminine for my tastes now, an abundance of school

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  yeah, I haven't written a blog in too long anyways, so I owe all of you ... kidding. My research deals with the characterization of a novel gene in the aging pathway of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (a roundworm that is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  five-something am to squeeze an hour of writing in before school. I ... pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man, stuffed full of fantasy. My eyes flick to the books I loved, gloss over the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  terrified. I worried that I wouldn't get into any school. I spent that week ... [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it ... the heck[/caption] I could tell the story of that morning-- the story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to ... using Notion to track all my class assignments. i feel very on top of ... of stressing out about it like i did last year. i'm happy doing things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote ... struggling with bouts of illness for the past month or so. I'm not sure what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students having trouble submitting their Parts 1 and 2.) Your school/teachers may submit ... understanding with teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  Shire, floor 4West, Next House, Cambridge, MA. This weekend was, of ... I'm able to have because of you, as well as the future I have ahead of ... 'm thinking of you and the family. I'm thankful for all the new people I've met

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  friend Kevin upon learning of this: "That's not fair." Many schools and ... that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of ... awkwardly inline. As fun as it is to play outside, the time-honored sport of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is posted here.  For me, Educational Counselors or ECs are a special group of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  (more specifically, Matt McGann and Ben Jones) were two of the speakers ... high school counselors signed up to listen to Matt's and Ben's presentation. They asked me to tag along as an example of somebody who's not only

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  absolutely no feeling in the lower left-hand quadrant of my face. It's as if ... of the bottom quadrants of my face, the dentist leans over and does ... kind of elaborate hoax in which they put tubes and drills and silver

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  and the current is flowing west and a school of goldfish is exerting a ... . I did the following two pages of it: …before finding out that my ... ’s just so freaking cute! Of course, he’s totally in love with Veronica and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC). NACAC is the primary ... many ideas, and having learned something new. This year, some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  Name: Bryan G. Nance Job title: Director of Minority Recruiting Hometown: Queens, NY High schools: Benjamin N. Cardozo (Bayside, NY) and ... University, 1989, BA Sociology (Home of the Spartans!); University of Delaware

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  choose their matriculating institution. By this time, most of these ... the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose MIT, but to make the best choice for yourself. Although of course you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  my First Year. My First Year Out Of School. I worked part-time for ... extraordinary of an appearance, seeing as I might’ve abused my powers as a blogger took advantage of another MIT-related communications outlet to tell you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014