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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  ’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers ... in high school, she invited me to go to a MIT info session with her. At ... information session was a stellar opportunity to "spend time with my friend in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the ... prefrosh is like an open door to visit labs, classes, and get exposed to everything that MIT has to offer. Relish in it. Rule #5: Don't knock it 'til

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  things to do, doing well in them, getting leadership activities, volunteer ... . But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the ... pertinent to what was going on in my mind: is it right to feel like any less

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  : Playwrights’ Lab in the spring, where I’ll get to collaborate with a ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  , getting tickets to a last-minute concert, etc.  Being present. I keep ... in new and old ways, and basically just living it up. Happy LFDOC to my ... . Namely:  It’s my very last semester (still trying to wrap my head around

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  class to make all eight plays and musicals held during my four years in ... as a sophomore, and was the only girl in my class to make our school ... pick the direction it goes in. It might not even get published if I don

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  language, Scratch was an invaluable stepping stone in my journey to pursuing computer science. I first learned to use Scratch in high school in order to ... Program (ESP) in which 7th and 8th graders come to MIT to take a variety of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…

  

  MIT homepage today, I've been getting lots of traffic interested in summer programs. To that end, here is a further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors to consider. All of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  . the rain started to get worse and by 8pm, lightning crackles in the sky ... should really get up, so i[annotation note="in room 251, we all have Next ... in light [annotation note="i was fortunate to acquire both a waterproof

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to ... . The long term goal is to be able to correctly fill in a blank map of MIT ... here. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. To be honest, this is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  applications, we get a lot of applications. We then need to read those ... . Its a long story. Ok, I need to get back to reading. I have a lot of ... I'm sitting at my desk in my robe right now. I'm on my 5th cup of

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some ... wanted to do in life. After taking GIR’s and classes in my major, I feel ... good at in high school, and you definitely don’t need to know what you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  grad dorms are pretty easy for me to forget. Participate in a UROP… or ... the C League (Leagues go from A to C, in decreasing difficulty), so for ... team that has no reason to be in the C league. Last semester, I picked up

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  allowed to live in a single room?" There are actually two people in the ... pretty darn big. Keep in mind that in Baker, the rooms are designed to hold ... get crowded first.) In terms of gender mixing, there is a very large

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  ."]PhD[/annotation] programs.  Well, I don’t really have to make a decision until if I get in ... I’ve mentioned a few times in the past about being unsure as to ... industry for a bit first. My intention has been to work in the industry first

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I ... 25th reunion) to caps (’64, for their 50th reunion where they get the ... straight to evening rehearsals for We’ll Get It Right. We’ll Get It Right

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

  Edit: Okay, it wasn't split as neatly as that scene in Brave, but that's the closest I'll ever get to it. ... ="650"] Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  I'm given to understand that at other colleges, students actually get ... year struggles, I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of this whole ... groups get together at the end of the semester to schedule next semester

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  getting shit done. i love setting goals because they offer opportunities to ... bed at 10:03, i can't believe that i used to get up, eat breakfast, and ... ] get into the habit of stretching after you work out don't try to jump

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  . In the fall, one of JPL's Curiosity engineers gave a talk to the Solar ... . One way to bypass this limitation is to launch a telescope in multiple ... , but orders of magnitude bigger. To put it in perspective with today

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014