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• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  CPW was so much fun! I meant to get this blog up and running ... I entered MIT, I had no idea I'd get as invested in building things as ... my work is needed to get it done, and that I can depend on everyone to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  possible are worlds i will be happy living in, and i can maneuver so to make ... offered me a return offer and i accepted it. i asked to work in the new york ... world i could've gone back to work in san francisco. in another world i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  also give talks in class, and get lots of individualized feedback to ... faculty in 1997, and prior to that was a faculty member at UCLA and Harvard ... Research Award. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2005

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  apartment that she was to live in for the next three months. It’s nothing like ... in my UROP lab around 7:30pm. My worst day was an 8:30am to 8:30pm ... parentheses in this post, but I’m going to roll with it: the new season of Top

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in ... going on? WERE WE IN OR NOT? Needless to say, everything our teacher said ... understand that you can use it in desperate situations to break into things

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary ... chance before early applications to get my best possible score on each, so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  one of few places he was interested in, although he admits to not expecting to get in. Other places he applied to include Caltech, which turned ... Sciences) class in which he gets to create multiple design sketches, capped

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  . Okay, so let's get right to the... MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Cook with your ... I made this at 2:00 AM and left it to chill in the fridge overnight ... started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  getting a 100% and a 70% in a class will show up exactly the same on your transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No ... grades in classes and decide what I would need to NR a class. The

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  middle of the night to the basement of Building 4 to get some chinese food ... impending graduation, and now I have missed two classes with one week to go in ... even consider that picture to be in the realm of possibilities? If not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  holiday in October. To celebrate the year's start (and because I'm lazy), I ... .100, Aerodynamics. Although this class is going to be a time sink (Adam walked in ... just switched to Course 9 from Course 5, which in my humble opinion was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  application. You should, however, continue to get good grades, as we may call ... to fall in love with, so that no matter what happens with the MIT ... very interested in attending MIT. What should I do if I hope to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  : students often get very frustrated when majors are listed in alphabetical ... completely throws us off to not have the majors listed in the following logical ... Admissions site that this entry links to lists the majors in alphabetical order

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  I've never been to Seattle before. One of the things I love about college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month ... by rocky peaks[/caption] To get to the top of the cliff, you have to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  one day do an entry devoted to ice cream in Boston/Cambridge, what do ... browsing through some stores, I returned home to get ready to head to an ... . Boston has a lot of other exciting events in store to celebrate it's 375th

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  four novels, to be read in the first four weeks, with additional craft ... Harvard it is societally easier to major in a humanities field. For example ... get from my Irish folklore class to a MechE class at MIT. I’m going to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  'll stick to it for long enough to run a half-marathon in late summer ... change in focus. I'm hoping to at least submit it for publication, if not ... started journaling again in earnest – yet. I used to journal a lot, writing

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  really hard. Knowing how difficult it was to get my daily routine in check ... would've churned this out in no time, but writing The Words turned out to ... paper in over a year, so it was nice to revisit the HASS part of me that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  MIT-Now in Español!

  

  Hola! I’m delighted to introduce the newest page to the MIT ... excited to now launch the MIT Admissions page en Español. On this page, we ... . And we want everyone to gain a deeper understanding of the friendly and

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • July 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  if I don't get in, I am going to regret not working harder on this ... to get in!!!!!!!!!! (But you probably knew that, and if you planned to ... you feel that you have to misrepresent the truth dramatically in order

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015