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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way... what would ... returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that dream project, tinker in that lab, or spend a year overseas (all expenses paid) teaching

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  convenience of being able to type an essay in the comfort of one's own room or ... , I have to say that that probably takes great moral fortitude in its ... + humanities major in a school full of engineers, so I never had to sit down in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  take pictures of the machines (: In the meantime, in order to orient ... coordinates. However in order to establish your coordinates, you need to edge-find, or determine where the tip of the tool is relative to the edges of your

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to work hard? Is ... information I can ask students and faculty in the graduate programs to which I ... need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your ... are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions ... in between. We can't wait to welcome them to campus to join the 4

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  's like to take Thermo, or all the cool traditions in their dorm, or their ... walking to the end of the world (in Minecraft), has strong opinions about James Joyce, and thought about many things as she learned to swim in the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  make claims as to whether or not someone is a good candidate because in ... In response to this blog entry: (As a reminder) Don't hesitate to ... difference in lecture with students wanting to do different things?" Hey

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  many new abilities our hero Link gains in his quest to defeat Ganondorf ... failed me! But why? Linear algebra to the… rescue? TL;DR, rotations in 3D ... way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  want to do. We were in this boat as prefrosh, and then in our freshman ... regret coming to MIT, or if you feel Y, you will definitely love being at ... were applying to either had animation classes or art departments or both

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  everything in the allotted spaces in the application. To answer your question ... : Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. I have to admit, the Pittsburgh ... Last night after work and before the Red Sox game, I went out to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  my time in school, and he told me about his efforts to get his friends ... -or-so more of his constituents. He agreed and we made plans to arrange ... , and that change has to start somewhere. Having spent my time in college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  of taking classes like "Intro to Algorithms" or "Machine Learning in ... everyone that I was going to major in (astro)physics, which I don ... wanted to major in physics--I've always loved math, and space has been my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into friends in the halls, at Stud, or as I'm hurrying down Dorm Row to class. I ... year, that I actually formed connections that I'm putting in effort to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  care if recommendations come from the subject you wish to major in or not. Emilia wrote, "I live in Ecuador, am about to enter senior year and am very interested in applying to MIT. I have one question about the application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  visualization, or to watch a significant person in the field talk about it) 5) Get ... your breaking point, and learn how to make time for yourself in order to ... classroom or lab setting.   Isaac G. '17 Don't be afraid to put more on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in ... this, I failed to account for the fact that I am now in the most ... just sit and stare at a river somewhere or peoplewatch in a park. I want

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…

  

  stood in line for three hours to taste the fabled Ramen Burger. Best 8 ... icebreakers... That may or may not have ended in some violent pool ... all ages and disciplines -- they just expect you to come in with a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  understanding with teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in ... ApplyWithUs but sent to MIT through Naviance, fax or mail will not appear ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  . In early January, I realized that even though I could return to and ... or ask too many people (especially strangers) to read through your ... NPR invited you to either write an essay about what you believe or

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  EC in an e-mail or phone conversation if they expect you to bring anything, or to dress in a particular way. My bet is the answer is "no" on ... high school early, or 2) took a gap year in order to apply again to not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006