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• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  opportunity to spend a day or two in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy ... point, we happened to be in Chinatown, standing in front of an ... noted that it was refreshing to eat a meal in which all noodles had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... convinced I could never fit in. I wanted to shake your hands, give you hugs ... mostly at ease talking to strangers in-person. But now we have “Meet the

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  you’re like 92% of kids who applied to MIT, then you probably didn’t get ... enough to yet be materialized as a concrete “you’re in!” or “we regret to ... good afterwards…” “Look, yeah, I get you’re trying to make me feel

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  knees. (Hint: to find me in any picture of the squad, scan the picture for ... . And I'm trying not to get skin cancer.) A better picture of me ... : lots of people are glad to hear that even a wreck like me can get into

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  In case you haven't realized it yet, I'm going to let you guys all in ... what used to be (and in some ways, still is) a very powerful word. But I ... to these very blogs, as - quite simply - a labor of love. Everyone in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  second major. Also, if you stay a 5th year to get your M.Eng. degree in ... to join the team, go ahead! "In any case, if you get the feeling that ... in living in a frat, and a big part of his going to CPW is to get to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  to MIT many times, you would expect to get in in approximately 1 in 3 ... course in probability and/or statistics, so you might as well get a head start in statistical thinking now. First, a few facts on which to chew: 1

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  wondering…was there another way to get to and from work? A week or so ... stop would take me to another bus that could in turn take me all the way ... five other routes to get to work, and Justas many to get home. Some I

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  currently in Manhattan trying to find my bearings and eat as much cheap food ... . I take every chance I get to try new places for dinner. Otafuku has a ... compared to many other similarly priced brunch options in the city

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  participants get to burn food and then eat it)? What's worse, is that 6 minutes ... of lectures entitled “FIREHOSE” (in reference to a popular descriptor ... throughout campus, prefrosh will get to learn about Algebraic Topology, Space

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  an incoming freshman because “I’d never get in!” and then proceeded to ... "]RAT[/annotation] in my room and I had to call Unit 12 to get rid of it and some lady ... well with my learning style. I found it really cool to program in a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  train people in how to acquire knowledge, which is the purpose of high ... ’m going to actually teach you things now/get you closer to the “real world ... professors who do that. In contrast to high school, here is how MIT teaches, a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  how you decide it'll be. Here's just some things to keep in mind as you ... participated more in recitation and made sure to ask questions, and at the end of ... can get yourself involved in. You'll find that here, time will become

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this ... blotting in a Metro station! (By the way, a Western blot analysis is a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... classes get rejected. Why? Because often these kids knew how to grind, but ... want to, or simply because you think it will get you into college

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  Track teams here at the ‘tute, in which I get to hang out with some of the ... bring these atypical students together. Best of all, you get to share in ... selected for GEL learn how to best tackle working in a group and take

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  situation in the most gracious way. Does it still feel bad not to get an A ... I have to because one of my goals for this blog in general is to be ... , really wanted to do, something I had brought up in our group chat because I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  there waiting for one of the two or three daily trains to get us into ... you than getting stranded in an expensive Mediterranean resort town. So ... , did she not?) and enjoyable to swim in. Which reminds me! According to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  life in the city, and my friends. I should get on that. At least I got my fifth stack of homework in today on time. Yeah. I'm going to sleep ... Well, as Laura said in her latest entry, tonight was the "telethon

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006