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  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  them to elaborate on their interest. 18. In a paragraph or two discuss ... location on the Infinite Corridor to its new home in the MIT Welcome Center ... , in perfect condition. I had no choice but to assume this copy of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum ... has become painfully clear that I stand next to no chance of getting in ... and available in its original form here.  I won't attempt to dilute his

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  -year student to take five 12-unit classes in the spring; however, there is also ... wonderful experience, and I wanted to continue in a broader capacity. Paolo ... and discovery subjects in the past. To facilitate student engagement, we

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  different campus layout. I look forward to lounging in our non-mahogany rooms. Despite that, I’d recommend anyone interested in the liberal arts to ... class participant is placed with a master teacher in a middle or high

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
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  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge ... most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town ... dinner held at different colleges where students need to dress in formal

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  : please write in to Alice ASAP (this week or this weekend) at MITNews [at ... -height octagonal prism that is soon to be a waterfall of wooden blocks. Meanwhile in ... .” Behind the caution tape two people are having a heart-to-heart in the dip

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  with her face-to-face in her office to get to know her better. Her office ... to immerse herself in completely new cultures and environments. It ... lot of the students here at MIT. She always seeks to grow – even in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize ... Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in ... feverishly right up to the deadline date - and submitted, confident in my ... reach that I tried in vain to remain detached from. It wasn’t that I felt

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
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  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  in the first place, that I was just ignoring or repressing or negating ... , in a way, to being woken up by sunlight, and seeing everything as ... , in anonymous forum posts to college applications to conversations with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT students with people living with disabilities to solve a problem in the home ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  kids with adequate calc experience in high school take this to brush up ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a ... .01 met in a large conference room next to the [annotation note="It's a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  story or narrative. Since coming to MIT, I've had far less time to ... me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the ... the meaning of the hack. Hacks, in their purest form, are designed to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
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  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not ... to talk or donate but are polite about it, and others—a very, very ... ’m not interested in giving to MIT,” he told me. “I’m sorry to hear that

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
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  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  to “better manage” people in workplaces or worse, while hiring people ... test in a different mood”, which to me highlights a key flaw in any kind ... must be about 12 years apart! (or I suppose 24, in which case, petey

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... cultured to the term “Ivy League” or anything of that sort. I knew nothing ... it to Penn within days of their mail. I also sent in my SAT scores and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I ... , from random tech purchases to the ping-pong table in the lab commons to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  semester or two to finish her degree. Others take that extra time not by choice, but because a rough patch here or there means they have to retake ... people who embarked on yearlong missions to South America or Africa. The

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  worked so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and ... . Having bad grades or scores will certainly hurt you, but I’m sorry to say ... you come to MIT or not. I know it’s not a consolation, but it’s still

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  manifestation in 1924. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology goes to great ... traced back to the early student life of MIT’s dormitories. In particular ... dormitories, but in isolated houses, gives less opportunity to cultivate the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014