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• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  getting in and not getting in, but you'd rather look your best throughout ... thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  . I’ve loved getting to be a part of my friend’s next steps in lives ... , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less ... have been able to ship a few products that are out there in the real

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  Italy over IAP. In October, I applied to MIT's Global Teaching Labs ... students qualified to teach Italian high schoolers some science, in English ... it took for my plane to arrive, board, depart, and probably get to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  somewhere that's not boston. i want to get out of boston. living in LA ... my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... barrier to entry into the industry in the year of our lord 2019 eating the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  honest, I got to know the other people in my seminar but I didn't really ... , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a ... of the Opera live, and Garden State in the theaters. We also got to go

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  they do it by weight but you can ask to weigh your pot in between getting ... enough to go to the good food places in NY :("]good food over Winter break ... in town that lets you rate all the restaurants you've been to, and yes

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  . With no stress of the semester to keep you company. In those moments of solitude, my mind has found itself wandering back to my time in India. In ... soap operas with my parents. I no longer get to eat my mother's home

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  you can't get to the 1000th step without taking the first. Or the second ... , which used to feel 100 steps away (when in fact it was almost 1 ... thing to do at the time, in some sense it was the right thing to do at the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  actually getting any exercise this summer. i don't think i'd want to live in ... flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... code to work. i won't miss my long morning commute and getting around LA

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  ’t the best of matches; but ultimately I was able to get it to stick, and ... needed to finish it; in this case, a [annotation note="they seemed much rarer back in September, before I had access to as many makerspaces, or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  decision in life comes a tradeoff: you get to go to MIT in exchange for, well ... touched by the world and everything in it. It's absolutely shocking to be ... startups in order to be a course 6. I like my soul for maybe the first time

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  students will have taken an idea from nothing more than a sketch on paper to a real life product. This course is a FANTASTIC opportunity to get to ... specifications for fruit... or break things apart to learn. Despite the fact

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  lucky folks get to hear them instead!). We get samples from chemists in ... I get to work with liquid helium every day! It's very cool (...see ... , I get to explore the city with friends, go to the farmers market, hike

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  hours early to get ready, try out the acoustics in our new digs, and get ... desire to rock out, so we get 6 units of credit per term - just to bang on ... -raising ability (read: badassness) to get more people to come to the show. One of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  will also talk about in a later post). right now, i just want to talk ... of sorts.  i was more conscious of trying to get done with some of my ... someone's door and ask to talk or get dinner or do work. and i know that i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  indicators, MIT does its best to make sure you end up in a physics class that ... diagnostic when you first get to campus. The results of the diagnostic help you ... continued through IAP in January, something I didn't want to do. The first

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  love going out; others hang out in my dorm. Most everyone will listen to ... , sharing in its energy, and talking to strangers you will probably never meet ... what never was. How sad that I couldn’t get to know deeply all the cities

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  managed to do a lot of what I said in the letter. when you get this, i hope ... circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and ... .01[/annotation] [annotation note="you can take the Advanced Standing Exams to get

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  considered "sleeping in." I got to sleep in yesterday. :-) Woke up around 8AM ... Paris or Nicky). Headed to Loomis Chaffee for a school visit. Didn't get ... why certain kids get in when others do not. This is a big goal of ours

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  "]really lucky[/annotation] to get into the only company I applied to seriously in ... *inferior* to getting a job in some way. This probably stems from the fact ... school. That's totally okay. In fact, the point of this post is mostly to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020