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• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend ... Well, I'm packing tonight for my interview at UCLA's ACCESS biology ... morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SpringFest 2014! Just a quick post about the 2014 SpringFest Concert featuring Capital Cities and Flosstradamus!

  

  saving activities.  But my personal favorite event was SpringFest's annual ... Scavenger Hunt, and they were really awesome! I got to test out my new camera ... the first three songs, I had some down time to go around and see some

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 27, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle A prize will go to the first person to unwrap this mystery.

  

  go to the first person to unwrap this mystery. ... -time mathematician. John is my neighbor, and for the last few weeks he has been ... applications and I promise you that no one will be harmed! Take a moment to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  ’m going to share my experience with applying early, and for anyone applying ... just listed things I liked to do/did for my community. It was incredibly ... also have to finish a Wikipedia article for next Tuesday (which I haven

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  for application to MIT. That is OK. There are more important things to ... The MIT Early Action application deadline has been extended to November 6th, 11:59 PM, for SOME students affected by this weekend's nor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  requests for tours" before they even started marketing it. It's nice to see ... break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New York City. While walking around the downtown area, my roommate took me to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  and two blogger alums) met earlier today and had to deliberate for hours ... not personal if you weren't selected - we had an 11% "admit rate" for ... front-runner for his major. He's excited to find a UROP, join Assassin

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  to person before Professor Minicozzi arrived: Of course, this hack ... be thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Be thankful if you ... genre. Today I’m just going to ramble about minor happenings this week

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  sets the groundwork and frame for who I want to become and be.  Looking ... or the guy who set the world record for marathon, I just have to keep ... . One of my big pulls for the class, though, were the field trips. That

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  probably wouldn't list that, personally. How much do you have to study to ... easy for you and bore you to death. Some majors cover some really ... . To be quite honest I was 2 weeks ago leaning toward 8-B for the option

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  easy for awhile. Spend some time with your parents, go out to a movie ... First of all, Welcome to the MIT Family! (click to see full ... statistics. It's always interesting to see how you fared (especially since this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  person, when it suited me, goes to the intensely frustrating physics class ... Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and ... “mens et manus” to refer to—and second, I never did any of them. Nor was I

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  hard for me to deal with because - as you'll learn in this post - I deal ... 's pause for a second to unpack that. It's definitely not true that every ... really wanted to work for were *not* big tech companies and therefore had

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  eating at me for a couple of days now and what better to rid yourself of ... were going to be friends for life. i thought this was it. i thought you ... 've been trying to be a better person about that. genuinely. the friends i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at ... these ways, MIT isn't hard because I chose for it to be hard, it just is ... something false, without meaning to mislead the person listening, I wouldn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  exact same classes for those four years. You really got to know some ... infinitely more worth it to stand up for myself and be considered a "bitch ... things just shouldn't happen. It shouldn't be okay for women to be told

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  , thinking of the online atmosphere, I was very averse to the idea of joining ... relatively simple to make. Except for the fact that it took me about 30 minutes ... around the diameter for 360 degrees than to use a circle and rotate 180

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  for physics help, and he ended up getting out of bed, walking to my dorm ... 'right' way to do MIT. I personally take 3-4 classes a semester and ... to remember to let yourself breathe and save time for yourself. You don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  've noticed that my personal yen to travel is particularly strong after a long ... course, being in Beijing, there was plenty for Kat and I to explore in our ... had glowing things to say about the program. For some students, the real

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  spend birthday 21. Personally, senior fall has gone by too fast for me to ... terrible inside joke for people who went to MIT at the time of Spring ... having to check my phone for the time. So I'm getting an analog wristwatch

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019