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  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  from your typical bright, well-rounded kid into a real scientist. Test ... , since I was a double-major, and I'd taken a ridiculous number of upper ... conference and on a paper in Cell. I'd worked on an independent project for a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  . I'd worked very hard my entire school career, taken the tests, done ... , when other people found out that I'd been accepted to MIT, their

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  entry about the application reading soon, but I'd really like to know if ... complete application: transcript, standardized tests, recommendations, etc ... actually have made some decisions. Also, I'd like to thank you all for your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  lunch, go home, study for standardized tests, IM friends, get into college, graduate, grow up, ID badge around your neck, swipe-in-swipe-out, meetings ... courtyard window? I want to hear those leaves crunch and I'd like to feel the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  . I just don't get it. Anyway, I thought I'd wrote a quick little entry ... Section 2.12 of the Rules of the Faculty, no classes or tests can be ... . Also, I'd love to tell you my point of view about the MCVSD and MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  engineering, and figured I'd devote my life to being a mechanical engineer ... Olympics. We were testing rowers, archers--USA Today, CBS, newspaper people ... to do this for a living?' He said I'd have to meet this up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  not require the SAT II Writing exam (a test that i don't like much ... figured I'd choose one of the Ivy League schools. It seemed only natural ... approaching, I decided I'd check out one of the other schools I had been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told ... still good friends (I just had an awesome chat with him yesterday), so I'd ... your fellow pre-frosh and current students...well, I'd say that's one

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  test "huh," i said. "well, i'm probably depressed, but i'd need that on ... least.) anyway, every day i'd wake up to a new message from someone saying they tested positive, and when i developed a sore throat on the last

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  campus, and their explorations in finding new places to live. Today, I'd ... ’s Office, and more. [caption id="attachment_56126" align="aligncenter" width ... last semester be virtual. I'd rather live on campus, sneak in a few good

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  animated, and most frank performers, and I'd highly recommend that you go see ... questions that keep my brain churning every night. I'd feel bad turning my back on that just to make some money - and I'd be betting that maybe

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  potency of "high-logic" thought here. I think I'd probably be really happy ... MIT and you think you'd like to explore the opportunity, I'd say apply ... communicated with the soccer coach here at MIT. To be sure though, I'd ask Matt

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

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  . As far as test scores go, we consider them in the same way that we do ... question, but I thought I'd pull this comment up to this post since I know ... fact. Eric wrote, "I have another question about the admissions testing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  mistakes.[/annotation] [caption id="attachment_97266" align ... accounts, I am not a good pianist. I haven't played piano seriously since ... , and I don't have as good of a listening ear as I'd like. I'd like to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  just too big and I’d never get the hang of it. A year since I left my ... out and talking, I’d secured a spot. Sophomore year has been a lot ... me mentioning that this algorithm forgot to account for the nontrivial

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  to a bloody pulp with my awesome newfound kickboxing skills. I'd almost ... worry about. Like the way I'd scraped up the inside of my lip. One of the ... a thin red line just below my lower lip. But wait. If I'd scraped the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  , our office will be suspending our usual SAT/ACT testing requirement for ... .[/annotation]  This was not a decision we made lightly. Our reliance on these tests is ... health situation would improve such that taking the tests would be safe and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  reports on each test to send scores to four schools you're considering. Also ... subject test the same day?Am confused!" Alvin, if you're already doing the SAT Reasoning Test, you cannot also do the SAT Subject Tests on the same

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  able to account for differing intuitions in variants of the life ... the other—that the maximum principle doesn’t account for. Ethically, the ... principle does not account for the organ variant. In particular, it would

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

  test out of it. It's essentially like sitting the final before the class