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  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  older at the astonishing rate of one (1) year per annum, which means that ... biology as the love of my life, and (3) soon I won't be one of the "new kids ... …" Those percents add up - not just in the homework component of your grade

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  nights spent laughing on the floor of someone’s room. rather than just ... ap chem the spring of my junior year of high school. i had just ... leading up to the meet…but some of the pole vaulters did make a minecraft

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  the tether of this place, there's something about these walls, something ... , without notice over the course of years, fuses with your bones, phases through the walls of your veins, until at some point you don't know any more

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .013 and 7.014 are offered in the spring.  All of these classes cover the ... Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018!  Each and every one of ... of your comfort zone, and it also is the perfect way for you to start

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  I’ve learned more about the inner workings of MIT from my summer job ... year I had applied to be a counselor, but I landed the job of AD. My boss ... Diva.” 617) Being AD means that any time any of the 77 students or any

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  conference of the Overseas Association of College Admissions Counseling (OACAC ... plane) of the city of St. Louis, Missouri. A mural painted by our kind ... of place at the conference, since MIT is different than many other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the ... . Now, instead of using fitted sheets as capes, I buy fabric from the ... and take my first steps into the world of “we don't know why this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  of the CUP first-year experiment. Here are two that actually affect me ... most of the people who got here in September 2015 will be graduating. The ... to occur around the first week of June. The '18s graduated on June 8

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  in place of the snail mail?" Yes, send it to admissions ... well in two of my classes but well in the rest?" Slipping a bit will not cause us to take back our offer of admission, but slipping too much could

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  around, but mostly useless. At the beginning of the year, MIT offers ... Thanks to the miracles of modern transportation, I'm wringing out this week's MIT roundup from the wrong side of the Mississippi. (Internal

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  , here I am, headed towards one of the biggest changes life has to offer ... make it through to the very end. My mid-lecture anxiety attacks of ... remember thinking that the test must not have been graded out of 100. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2017 will be ... year is very low; we had to turn away the vast majority of excellent ... round numbers and not exact ones.) Obviously, a lot of the people

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  a similar version of the question, “Do you care about this life ... were during the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that ... have; it’s the system that makes me one of very few college graduates in

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... [annotation note = "residents of Random Hall, the soon-to-be last bastion of ... "]Randomites,[/annotation] namely stories of the engines revving through the day, and swarms of bikers

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  coding conference (2020) - Accomplished. I had the great fortune of getting ... , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. In Chicago, I visited the Field Museum and the Museum of Science

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  dream. And sometimes, even in spite of the photos, I’ll still wonder if it ... memories, as you normally do in the hubbub of real college life, you ... faded into the background of my college experience. A Monday night when my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  the sucky-ness of being home, but rather, I'll reminisce on the good ... one of the students that matriculated before coming to CPW; so I came to ... (CPW activities booklet), 15% discount at the COOP, $20.12 worth of Tech

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  zero. once again you can determine how busy i am by the rate of my ... the grind since my first year here, of course, and i've talked about ... the embodiment of my resume, and copy-pasting the same application to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you ... affordable) way to relieve some of the stress MIT can give. And trust me, there

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from ... Coffeehouse 1369 in Central Square with one of my favorite persons in the world ... offered during IAP and that we should take one together. We looked up the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015