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• 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 / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  engineering programs, yes, but few other schools have 50% of the undergraduate ... (and it's difficult to think of a school which would be a good control ... statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  thinking. For six years I attended a school where the nature of interactions ... easy friends with everyone. As one of the school’s unofficial nerds, my ... delivered to our school, bore increasingly frequent mentions of Radical

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  A few nights ago I insinuated that there was a list of questions prospective students ought to be asking about schools they're considering ... work? Is the program composed of self-starters, with very little peer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and visiting colleges. A friend and I were part of an Honors Band that weekend ... then, but I can't take advantage of any of their offers now because they

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  In high school, the boys didn’t like me. A friend suggested that perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of ... is true that the white boys at my high school usually dated other white

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• 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

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  , "Rona, you used to dress better in high school. Then you went to MIT." It's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start ... makeup, and then I had to get to school early so I could get in extra math

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• 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 / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  :   Hello dear readers. In keeping with the trend of bloggers posting ... blocks of free time, none of those "empty" hours will ever be spent doing nothing. In fact, I think this will be one of my busiest semesters so far. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• 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 / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  It's Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are ... , and oddly-formatted emails.  I've been reading a lot of job descriptions ... profiles" -- lists of traits and behaviors that are associated with job

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• 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 / 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
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is there really a Game Lab?

  new approaches for applied game design and construction. Their mission ... -world challenges. Yes, you can make a career out of playing games.
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  really cool video of a helicopter he designed and is currently testing by ... *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of ... , I'm kind of running around because I'm jet-lagged like crazy (Adam and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  -studded team of engineers on the Game Design Committee unveil that year's game to ... designs (subject to a sort of "salary cap" meant to mitigate economic ... , design, and build their robots, which are then sent out to at least one of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• 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 / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  Some of you may remember my blog entry Inside the Webcast Studio, which consisted of the following video: So what was that all about? We ... person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  falls before most schools notify. Having an interview with MIT does not ... community, consider sending in some of your work. If you are interested in ... great time to register for the January administration of the tests, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008