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  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  ) thing that the reader/admission officer needs to know in order to ... essay is really an opportunity to focus on who you are and the ways in ... formula that will unlock the secret to getting admitted to the college of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  presence must be very prominent in all of the US. And then, I get here to ... , because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and ... raffle to get a free 32GB ipod touch. Yeah. I know. Wow. If that's not an

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  'll pop in and out as I can to answer whatever gets posted. ... to drive up to a meeting in a few hours, and I've got a sprint ... questions on a Friday afternoon. Ben used to do these big roundup "answers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  negotiation activity, in which each team had to build “satellites” out of Legos ... minutes. ELLs are two hours long, so we obviously needed to throw in some ... second round, discussions started to get more energetic. Interestingly, two

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  information: Students can request an extension of the May 1 deadline in order to ... Admissions Office to request the extension, and be sure to also be in touch ... entry). We're looking forward to seeing you in the fall! If you've already

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar Bosnia, Ohio, Cambridge. A video news report on Ervin Puskar '10.

  

  BG High Grad Gets Full Ride to MIT Amy Bingham / WBKO A former ... full four-year scholarship to MIT. Ervin arrived in bowling green ten years ago from a refugee camp after being forced to flee his home in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a ... in Davis Square, 4 short subway stops north of MIT's campus. They get ... It was a nice, relaxing 3-day weekend here. Summer has arrived in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  that I read in middle school. The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin. Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in ... . 3. Get to the Hatch Shell early and get a wristband for the night

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in ... to call attention to sexism in STEM and at least put that awareness in ... to put the entire MIT team, male and female, in hot pink My Little Pony

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  an option in the immediate future. This is what is supposed to happen ... to apply again in a subsequent application cycle. There are cases when ... between applications, the admission decisions tend not to change, and in

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to ... number, size, and volume, to the point that people in China can almost no ... worth the look on Roe's face when he walks in to a room full of 20 people

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  the past month (in another). I scramble to get out my phone and write it ... The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... luckiest sophomore in the world when my piece of paper is pulled and I get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  ago I landed in Austin, Texas to start an internship at Lumension (they ... quality assurance and it's been wonderful to get back to coding. Burning the ... Culture Happy Hour, it's been great to get back to the roots of 6-3. Two

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... registered for the course getting really excited to be there only to find out ... you recall was a miracle for me to get into, followed by 8.09. A solid

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  off to some of the many romantic restaurants and sites in Boston and ... sitting in class my freshman year, listening to a (differential equations ... group, to serenade some guy in the first row. At the end of the serenade

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Tim Is So Beautiful to me

  

  two. We played rock band in 10-100 together (enough to get rock band ... I began writing the script in July 2011. We started filming in September. We recorded the music in March. We premiered in in April. That

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  ’s common to feel stuck in a rut at times, and there are ways to get out of it ... active field of research, because I want to get involved in areas that ... to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  learn things more closely aligned to our interests in our last semester ... process in and of itself) to continue learning computer graphics topics that ... Material Point Method, the method used to create the snow simulation in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  time we also just go get food together or go to the movies, but all in ... ). So just in case you don't want to watch the entire video here are a few ... talk about them in class. As with most CI-H classes, we were required to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  some pretty awesome classes and extra-curriculars to participate in. (If ... see how that applies. But it IS possible to balance it all, and in fact ... in all the things that don't change from week to week. Like, say, class

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008