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  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  weather) slowly melting, and I feel pretty good. It’s been a while I typed ... ’ve held your breath for way too long, spurts that come typically after ... a while, but yes, it feels like temporary freedom, to just take a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do homeschooled students apply?

  MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students and these students have been successful and vibrant members of our community. We don't have separate requirements for homeschooled applicants. Homeschooled
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  ; What a headache Where does the time go?! We're somehow halfway through ... ~ but it didn't start out that way. I spent the first few weeks trying to ... thought it was a fluke. But a week later, the headaches alternating between

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  admissions for a long time, and (finally!) here goes. First, an important ... student who does not have US citizenship or permanent residency (Green Card ... . Need blind means that we do not consider how much financial aid we would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  problem sets, but as long as it's not full, you can change it online. In ... 've been trying to decide whether or not to switch into 5.112. I'm in it for ... , and it IS pass/no record. This way it also works out so I get finished

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  based on how many people take them? With the latter approach, I'd say it ... archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the ... of any class, but it helps demonstrate the differences I want to show

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  the history page was how it mentioned the logo only started existing in ... graphic identity, and how exactly was it created? And there was also the ... .” Ciborowski said that it is obvious that Tim does not complete problem sets each

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  spent in seattle, and was it even real at all? mit does this to you ... the suburbia that is kirkland, because i think it would've been a lot ... about how i liked this lifestyle.[/annotation] [annotation note

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  , just to share how my semester is going. somehow, 1.5 weeks into classes ... because it hasn't ramped up in abstraction yet and because holomorphic ... Yet Even Though It's Week 3 Of The Semester. but i have been reading the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  't count toward the requirement they thought it did. One alum I worked for ... open problems as extra credit on problem sets, so it's nice that ours are ... .006, which I need to complete my major, so the downer is that I can't drop it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  following each guideline does not guarantee your acceptance, it may give you ... because it is what you want. In the long run, passion is more meaningful ... experience it more synthetically, be it the pressure to earn a living, or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  !) Ames Research Center is the one with the funny hangar- it's our north ... towers all over everything else. It used to hold blimps. Now it just holds asbestos and lead paint and people aren't allowed in it. The pedestrian

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  hits me: I’ve almost made it through two months of MIT! 60 long days ... most meaningful way possible. It’s crying without care about how much you ... As I look outside the long windows of McCormick Hall’s penthouse

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  the tablet. Tablets are amazing. I love them. How cool would it be to be ... I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... , then you won't be at a huge disadvantage with a desktop, but it

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  . It will save you and us some angst in the long run. [For example ... MIT website. [If your interview has been waived, don't worry about it, we ... falls before most schools notify. Having an interview with MIT does not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  of local MIT meet-ups is a positive one regardless of how long you ... MIT Class of 2021 has been assembled, it’s time to welcome them to the ... ’ve been having about MIT: How hard are classes, really? What kinds of things

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  ", so does our admissions committee. The process is long and arduous. It ... 've discussed data and how to understand its validity. All of these posts have ... process and, to the extent possible, explain how and why we do the work we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  open book and open notes. And it does help, sort of; I think you'd be at ... Today I am hijacking Laura's entry on tests, because a) it ... will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  its way out, seeing as how it was (thankfully) not renewed for Season 4 ... 's my strategy, and I'm sticking to it. Anyway, now the seniors are long ... . Yeah, that was a few days ago. I was distracted by the front desk and its

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  that i am butchering what kubernetes actually does, i'll just say that it ... realize how foreign that sounded even to me just two weeks ago. it was a ... warm fifteen minute walk. i tap my id at the elevator and take it to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019