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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  --his high school math teacher dated Amber Brkich. That was kind of exciting ... orbitals, and learn more about the degrees of freedom than you could ever ... your chances of getting to meet me and Mitra! You could see such amazing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  high school of 2,000+, graduating class of 620, class sizes of about 20 ... academically. AP classes were abundant - the school offered somewhere around 30 ... . Maybe you came from a school of only 5 AP classes, where you were the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  the majority of the people in her area didn’t have college degrees and ... in STEM and chemical engineering, MIT was on her list of schools to ... picture of MIT as a really depressing, weird school where she wasn’t going

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  I'm halfway to my bachelor's degree which is exciting but also nerve ... about it? This is an image from one of my favorite Twitter accounts ... Memorial Drive side instead of Amherst Alley because I don't quite grasp the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  academic demand on MIT's AeroAStro school???... because I'm thinking of ... the end of the month. As for the online application -- which is how most ... 's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  evidence, and in this way, design gains the objectivity of science and ... I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... into a proposal for a functional school building. As soon as I started

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  to trivia games. Here is one of the design exercises I made for the ... school senior year Cami that she would be doing this kind of stuff in only ... have decided that taking five classes at MIT on top of a UROP and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  major from Bombay who dreams of one day studying at a prestigious advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of enlisting him to help design a new banner for Turkey vs. Spam--what do you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  questions and comments everyone had. One of my co-workers, Robin, offered an ... The day in question is Thursday, one day before the end of my ... because I didn’t know where to buy cake. I also had an end-of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  . Larger areas of the design come out and we begin to see the larger themes ... school recommendations, the report from your school and of course, the ... So, it's the middle of January and although it was an unseasonably

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far the scarier part) But here I am now, answering some of the questions

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  some sort of Magic School Bus episode, let me assure you that the ... me to a few rounds of “the ninja game,” offered us a drive ... Maggie Lloyd Class of 2012 Alumna MIT-Belgium Program Internship

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  number of books I consumed while in high school. That time almost seems ... 's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... through half of my time at MIT. It's strange, and scary, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  money for school. Many programs offer scholarships or compensation for ... moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the Class of 2014 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  a weird time. A lot of people say IAP is one of MIT's best offerings and the most pleasurable month of the academic calendar, but I don't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  bloggers are doing an amazing job of keeping the MIT Admissions page updated ... else seems to be posting screenshots of their calendars, I'm going to do ... couldn't see in the first picture: Yup. Story of my life. A partial

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  internships to fill all of the time I would otherwise have been in school. This ... previous posts why I decided to take a Leave of Absence this year. The event ... undergraduates were sent home last March. I was frustrated that so much of my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  that is possible. Most students take the most rigorous version offered of ... new high school does not accept weighted credits from out-of-state schools. How important is class rank in terms of MIT admission? If my rank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  poking around. At the beginning of the trip, I got designated as town crier ... , analyzed samples of roman concrete, learned how to mosaic and fresco, visited ... . It was one of the most interesting classes I’ve ever had, getting to

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  Degrees of Separation (Anthony Michael Hall's character in the film) Sam ... On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the ... ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005