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  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  enough to know what he's doing, a rare combination. I think I'll be able to ... gather, it has a lot to do with internal forces of materials (twisting ... like the plague, so being willing to practice it is a huge first step

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  to be a junior next fall. My schedule for next fall will not have any A ... to ask it anyway. My school offers a class called Intel Science and ... in? Do I have a chance to get into MIT considering the fact that I will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  ,100 incoming students. It was a blast, and so this year, I applied to be an ... this is the perfect opportunity to make a massive, campus-wide game. I ... would actually want to play, and this was my chance to make a game on the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  entered a randomized lottery to get placed in their basic required classes ... picture for you - FPOPs are a great opportunity for you to do things outside ... introduced me to MIT, Cambridge, Boston, and a new group of awesome friends

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  to an end. It would be great if I left more than bones and a carbon ... "]far-from-comprehensive[/annotation] list.   A handful of murals. In addition to the elephants I ... someone a surcharge to buy him a Diet Coke from Verde's and bring it to Mac

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  be angry, just annoyed, and you’d have to spend time inserting a new ... machine to measure the distance between the two. The void reduces to a ... of the fantasy novels you both used to read, is showing a student

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  to seek extra help?" are a few of the common questions that are running ... child?" "Does she need a test prep course?" "Do we need to hire a college ... tick?" Going a little bit deeper, I like to summarize it using the word

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  a tip, buy processors and memory in a 3 to 7 ratio. A Dark Room. This ... graphics are good enough reason to play for a few minutes. Ordinal Markup ... planning and thinking about things, and has enough content to last at least a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  which I decided to become an astronomer insteaad of a neurologist. I ... that we were really too tired and should just find a place to sleep. As ... back and get it. So, we turned around, and pulled into a 7/11 to take a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  path to his success: I was 28 years old. I had a career, a little fame, a ... telling me I was born to be a writer. This was absurd. Even I could see ... for it to grow and flourish. This kind of luck doesn't strike like a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well ... people, including those who apply to MIT, have a difficult time thinking ... salient, and most likely to swing an admission decision in a highly

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  understand the claim to not trust it and ignore like a 550, but if you have an 800, is it really fair that that is not even given a consideration? To ... at all happy about my SAT scores and felt a need to take the TOEFL in

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  : Yep! TSA Agent: Wow, physics. Great time to be a physicist, with all the ... the same time was thrilled to have a change of scenery (finals period ... , because one always has a million assignments to work on. IAP usually doesn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  Harvard Yard to take the No. 1 bus up to MIT, where I was given a personal ... , separating it from Boston). We got there early enough to have a great view of ... 'm working on a great UROP, I have plenty of fun projects to spend my spare

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  book, Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen ... is his choice in 4 years). Would we be better off sending him to a big name private high school? Or is it possible to get a good enough

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  they can. We had a lot to celebrate. First, we're so proud of the class ... was fantastic. I used to think of the arrival of Spring simply as a ... a doctorate, but work with me here) and the kid has to not only carry

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  probably one of the more epic things we’d done in a while, and proceed to ... to be taught how to make a snowman, which I feel is some essential life ... bad), we managed to get the chunks into the moat, grabbed a few branches

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  consensual safe sex". They have a lot of information about kinks and how to ... extra to be on a whole other insurance plan, so you have the option to ... active at all, then this is a great thing to go to! I went with a group of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  a variety of programs, seeks to foster a community and encourage ... throwing. Each participant has a time slot of 1 minute to perform in front ... commented that perhaps I would like to someday become a professional plane

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  supportive of my children’s right to choose, so I bought him a “ ... Sadoway’s students working on a new process to make steel with oxygen ... Hockfield, Stu Schmill, Daniel Barkowitz, (who handed out a 100 Grand to every

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008