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  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  ’t take into account the full range of aid that we offer, since they are ... : sorry for not blogging much lately. With my new-ish role —  Director of ... kind that is often read by a half dozen people within MIT. It's sort of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  a weird time. A lot of people say IAP is one of MIT's best offerings and the most pleasurable month of the academic calendar, but I don't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of fall. It's so beautiful though. I love this time of the year when trees

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  little space as possible offers the best protection. Both of them were ... year full of blades. If you are interested in supporting the victims ... of someone’s grandparent being shoved, beaten, or slashed goes viral

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great – I use them often to reroute my train of thought away from worry or overwhelmedness – but I also find a lot of solace in kind, honest words. So that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  shades of brilliant, MIT handles grades. On a 0% – 100% scale? Maybe “A ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... screenshot of how your MIT grade report looks like online. Note: Your grade

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  my daily commute is one of the joys of waking up each morning. So I was quite surprised when I got to page B11 (national edition) of the sports ... Jimmy Bartolotta '09. One of the great things about sports at MIT is that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... -day weekend and every single day of the weekend was the most beautiful day ever ... statement of purpose for grad school, or a practice GRE essay, or one of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  could be assured of some admissions offers, but I didn't count on being ... and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of ... with the list of "deal breaker" variables. Who was I and what was

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... beyond capable of accomplishing what high school is throwing at you. So if ... Last Year of High School Magnifying Glass, which always makes things look

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  anything to offer in comparison to the rest of the class of 2011. I was ... I'm going through my in-box today, taking care of some long ... , and I decided to wait until now instead of posting it in June - this

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  , etc.). One even offered to take photos of us on top of Angels' Landing c ... I haven’t been doing a great job of blogging this semester for a variety of reasons (grad school is busy, life is hard, writing isn't my

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions ... sort of felt like I just ran into people as I went about my life, and some of them happened to be people I really “clicked with”, and we became

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  the majority of the people in her area didn’t have college degrees and ... A few days ago, I called two of my dearest friends, Asia and Daymé ... year’s program and further details here. I will now spend the rest of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  these glimmers of east campus. <3 five months ago, i poorly planned ... , and eventually moved out of East Campus (ec). it was not only the dorm i ... . i always knew i wanted to live here, mostly attributed to my years of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was afraid to do in my freshman year. One of the bigger things I wanted to do ... because a lot of the clubs required interviews. Being a wide-eyed frosh with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• 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 / Classes

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

  

  .002 was first offered last semester as a sort of intro lab class that first ... of the CUP first-year experiment. Here are two that actually affect me. Graduating Early We are within throwing distance of Commencement 2019, in which

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... be prescient enough to solve for the best combination of choices. Once ... of me; once in place, I could follow them where I wanted to go. So

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  , and trying to "make the most" of my last semester of college, despite ... Lab, the same lab that I had UROP'ed in. That first year of grad school ... satellite, and on efficiently co-locating data from different types of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025