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  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  disastrous dates, you’re probably still nervous: decisions come out in just two days. You’ve probably replayed every possible scenario out in your mind ... offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  programs to explore different universities in new settings, don't cross off ... Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy ... why we shouldn't believe in astrology (anyone in the EAPS Department

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... * Choosing between the forty-nine majors that MIT offers can be a nerve

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... getting in were, or who posted their very high SAT scores and then asked if ... who get in vs. the ones who don

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  tournament for the first time in program history. They were knocked out of the tournament by Rowan University. This week, I met with two players from this ... at MIT. Liz is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering (course 2

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  different from most other universities where you register several weeks or ... classes I wanted to take in the fall. Then, as has happened the last few times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  in fact I'm not sure I have anything to offer in comparison to the rest ... travels this Fall. With the Early Action season starting in full swing ... post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a ... Meet Catsby: He was a sweet boy who loved food, sleeping in the ... work in the cleanroom to design and fabricate our own nanotechnology

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  admissions. Why I Chose MIT  In all honesty, there are times (*cough* hell ... gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in ... spirit of MIT. People here want to change the world - in whatever way they

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... rising senior *letting out a little scream in my head*. After a year ... :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite-things-in

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  In response to an earlier entry of mine, this post appeared on ... will weigh in on it. Assuming you've made it that far, the senior staff ... correct in the context of the overall applicant pool, and that no one

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  women in math: research at Indiana University found that females ... -analysis found that on average, men outperform women in a cluster of tests related to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... stops and worlds apart. The most often cited difference is in the color ... . Harvard has solemn portraits of old men looking smart in decorated frames

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  which occur in our universe. But there is a problem with social science ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... personally identifying information and let the community analyze it, because in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still unknown to the universe I went for the front door, all while my TA just ... is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  of Ubuntu in less than a minute because of MIT: You will never see ... published in Popular Science and friends who build something amazing and ... friends I meet more great friends and so on and so forth. In fact, this is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  Universe Inside the MRI Scanner: An In-Bore Virtual Reality Game for Children ... that took up a lot of my spring and summer, but I made it! So in this ... research in general over the last few months. As a disclaimer, I don't speak

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  In my blogging folder, I had a draft post that sums up my senior year ... , 2013, I was sitting in the Margaret Cheney Room Women’s lounge on the 3rd ... the only thought in my head was “I thought we would have beautiful

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  . Nerdy, silly, sporty, food-offering, you name it, that type of activity is ... theme song on the piano in the middle of the room. Nearby, an ... grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of ... buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four ... fitting in, about studying for classes, and about joining clubs. For those

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021