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  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  some variation of “What did you do in high school to get into MIT ... definitely were not secretly fantasizing about getting into MIT in order to ... not being in a music department We went to an art school for 9th and 10

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  ensures that I'll be able to get to everything I want to cover, and it oddly ... friends, etc. Gives me things to look forward to, in between studying and a ... classes in a separate binder. Makes it easy to compartmentalize different

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  Lounge and talk around small tables, so prefrosh get to interact with us in ... !!!! I love talking to everyone and sharing in their enthusiasm so! much ... my floor pulling up to the event in our bright orange shirts; I'm glad

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  being able to shut the door and get a good night of sleep. (Or, point in ... 's nice to get in early, get everything done, and get home around 3 PM. And ... , which will take a lot more thought and I will get to at a later date

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  programs MIT sponsors that try to get high school students interested in ... in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... experiences. In short, Melissa, you don't have to worry about coming to MIT and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  Morgan Sheng's lab in the Picower Center. I didn't get to see much of the ... 'll cross my fingers for that. In either case, I'm planning to take my ... carrying an umbrella in a snowstorm doesn't make immediate intuitive sense to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither goal. Never fear, I'm taking another semester in the fall to finish my studies and to continue sitting in places. The two goals are related

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Has Been Found! Mystery Hunt 2007 is quasi-over.

  

  and I'll get back to you when I get home from church. Ciao! ... "At 2:14am on Sunday January 14th Dr. Awkward managed to defeat the devil and regain their immortal soul (in coin form)." This means Mystery

  • by Bryan
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  to answer the many questions that have been showing up in my blog ... could attend it for that. now i got a problem in november test due to ... August 2007 will MIT make a conditional offer i.e. I will need to get three

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• 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 ... involved in research early. Some students wait until their senior year to get ... lab equipment). Importantly, you want to get really involved in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... relieved to hear that I’m actually travelling now, in contrast to last year ... to rizz' presentations run with multiple co-hosts and presented in

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  :) Explore the different dorms!  I knew I wanted to live in Burton-Conner as ... the opportunity to ask any questions about the club or MIT life in ... -specific events! A lot of clubs will hold CPW events for you to get to know the

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  time to login to MyMIT and make sure everything is in! To recap, you may ... .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically ... worried! We are here to help you get your information to us. Thanks for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  stars admiring from afar (to properly credit "we fell in love in october ... club event has been offering free cider donuts to lure in a special breed ... live and where you’ll be in a year, so try to give this fall a bit of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  . Question: "What about Are Four years enough to get advantage of all the resources MIT has to offer for a student?" In a word, no. No matter how much ... key is to try to maximize what you do get out of MIT. For example, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  lying, then, to call these lies? Five. In What getting an education from ... you've handled this many classes in the past, so I'm going to approve ... , chose to do difficult homework, chose to not go to parties. In these ways

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The ... from the other day in class and add a little something to them. Just. For ... afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the ... ? Well, I guess I could go home pretty early to get a full night's rest ... likely to come to the minds of people. In short, it lends itself to group

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  school in the world to get into to begin with. I can use that fact to try ... 't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I ... every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company ... I saved to travel and pursue my goal of getting myself out there ... plane for a Phi Kappa Sigma conference and spent a week getting to know my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016