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  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  ! Melissa wrote, "Should I call you Mr. Matt, or just Matt? Anyways, I'm in my ... ...could I send that in along with my teacher and guidance counselor recs? Or ... , i'll request you to visit www.iisc.ernet.in/kvpy to get more info

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  allowed to live in a single room?" There are actually two people in the ... pretty darn big. Keep in mind that in Baker, the rooms are designed to hold ... as single sex, and suites in Burton-Conner can be either co-ed or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  with me, or if it’ll be awkward to see them in person, or whatever. But ... confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and ... . I didn’t go to career fairs or recruiting sessions; I didn’t upload my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  students drop out of college or go to community college in order to be able ... , however you want to shake it, and nobody's going to care or judge you or ... texas and dressed in full cowboy regalia circa, like, 1898 or something

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  that should be matching to match or I’m in uncharted waters and the data ... got the internship, awesome! Now, I just have to like… actually work or ... figuring out how exactly to word the spec I’m writing. It’s easy to get in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  campus to make the case in person. Send us ridiculous items or bribes ... but not causal. This means, what has happened in the past or on any ... foosball champion decides to go somewhere else, we may, or may not, go out of

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  . Otherwise it's like 4 or 5 AM. You get used to this and develop a routine, it ... when there's an exam. Exam's tend to just randomly appear in weird parts ... it done." suck. In 2.003, the opposite happened. Due to a student

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  interview plays in selection so while I’d planned to start at the very beginning—a very good place to start, I think I’ll have to start in the middle ... one piece of your folder that will cause us to admit or not admit you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  from MIT to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. With me were ~25 other MIT ... the MoMA: On the way in, Kandinsky tells the visitor what to think ... experience was  in fifth or sixth grade; the London Symphony Orchestra had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  . Now, it's not worth going home if I have only an hour or two to spare in ... situation. Each individual in a dorm or FSILG has far less control over who ... move in. Messes are often made between the times janitors come to clean

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  right after) the deadline. It’s in your best interest not to be part of ... interview, try to be especially flexible in your availability, as your EC also ... experiences with applicants who are curt, demanding, or rude in their emails, or

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . I could've still been in high school. I remember talking to a friend ... changed. MIT is a school. Not a reactor. Not a speedway to prestige or ... August. I was sitting in Killian Court alone. The sun was sharp

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  yourself to people in your school or town. You don’t have to be " ... enthusiastic or at least immediately willing to write the letter. Ask in advance ... and shouldn’t be used in essays). This post is addressed to all

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  will describe to you in painful detail in a later post."]my three ... wandered around the area just to sort of take in the ambience. Our group ... —but to me, art is still the escape. Of course, writing in particular is a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder ... fresh out of the pandemic and it took a few months (or years) to feel like

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  here's a quick update. Waitlist It's still too early to know whether or ... letter, or a phone call. Keep us up to date all the way through May 1 and ... the transfer students we are able to admit. And of course, like in our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  being in Boston or Cambridge. Sortof surreal to experience that in ... Greene put together, to see who could best explain string theory in two minutes or less. (Note that one of the people in the viewer's choice winning

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  celebrating innovative technology by bringing in companies to showcase their ... related to human lives and how we might mitigate or combat them with science ... Catherine Huang '10 just sent me this announcement and asked me to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  to go back in time and correct mistakes or retake tests. 3. A little ... means as much as I'm afraid to press the submit button, in order to have ... / : -verb to calm down; to release oneself from inhibition, worry, tension

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  Policy to RL circuits as you can see from the picture. With four or five ... picture, and I managed to run over a chicken wing and almost wipe out in ... Florida anymore! I went out today in part to get the photos of the places

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017