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  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  admissions authentically, but we can’t write about what it’s like to live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and so forth

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  several stories about people planning to major in one field, only to declare ... in course 3. Before coming to MIT, I’d never particularly enjoyed ... teaching; true to form, every pset was in the form of a superhero comic

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  !!!! I love talking to everyone and sharing in their enthusiasm so! much ... crunches."]not being able to do crunches[/annotation] or figuring out how ... Lounge and talk around small tables, so prefrosh get to interact with us in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in order to score a little higher. We were on the clock--the weather

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  school. Finally, my colleagues in the Financial Aid Office are happy to ... 're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades, or you've already ... pristine as possible, feel free to add some extra info in the "Subjects taken

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  's something that I've simply convinced myself to be true, but MIT in fact does ... to put a big emphasis on #8. Write often. In between learning to be ... to be pumped out. In that very same meeting, Jeremy brought up

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  (and I know you're out there) can buy it here. Dylan is currently hard ... acquaintances from MIT who are also writers of various sorts. Before I came to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  major in social science. If I had studied social science prior to college ... STEM and liberal arts. In another place, perhaps I wouldn’t have dared to ... in. I would’ve gone to the “right” college for the wrong reasons. So

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  there are no right or wrong things to talk about in the interview. There ... glitz it up or embellish in any way. You don't have to set yourself apart ... in that regard. To that end, there is no expectation that you should

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  in MIT students (if you've come to an information session or read My ... discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare ... administrative stuff to do before we can put the decision letters in the mail. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  shared a room with my sister in the Bronx, or the room I had but was often too scared to sleep in alone in the Dominican Republic. They were mine ... that I didn’t have the freedom or even desire to alter it beyond my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  throughout the day in case one of you goes to sleep early or something like ... . And if I miss something, feel free to ask additional questions in the comments or email [email protected] directly. Also make sure to visit admitted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  then tended to be on well-defined routes. To my grandparents in Utah or Arizona, depending on the season, or to regattas in the mid-West. My 1 ... When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  floors, or perhaps only those on the first few floors dared to install ... , Treehouse Cafe: Grab a coffee (or chai tea, in my case) from the rockstar barista, en route to my desk. 9:20am, Nice Window Desk (no cubicles in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  turn in the final paper or project, and/or was absent during the last two ... undergraduate education in the case of an undergraduate student or by the dean for ... -up final examination or other additional evaluation procedure.” ((Or in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  could read in four different languages. Anything else you want to say or ... . Anything else you want to say or share? Cookie hour in the Green Building ... , almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that there are dues to be paid, you must accumulate a certain number and type ... , which ends with To be or not the choice seems clear enough but Hamlet

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  - at least in certain industries - can be reimagined or improved to this ... and you fall asleep in your chair, or at least get pretty sad and decide ... -related material on the side in order to “not lose interest in economics.” Personally

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  either at my school or the local library that I could get to on foot in 10 ... then say whether they did or did not get in. Trust me, there’s no pattern in those posts nor any clues as to whether you will get accepted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  respond to each notice individually or make a note of the other notices in ... , you can copy and paste the entire link in to you email program, or ... and time of this activity is registered to your computing account (or a

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008