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• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  I'm in the Pacific Northwest, waiting for my Seattle Central Meeting ... Grand Theater in Tacoma. I hopped in my car and drove down I-5. The film ... roof, and the beautiful helicopter shot. Using my Admissions Office

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both calculus (or higher level math courses, if you entered college with credit for calculus) and calculus-based physics.…
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit a February Updates & Notes Form (FUN)?

  school; MIT has all of my grades" option. The FUN Form includes an
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  Deep Literacy and my opinion on it all. It’s only getting more and more ... . I don’t think I’ve driven more than 2 hours in my entire life without ... be alone with my own thoughts, so I listen to music to avoid it. I feel

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  My favorite poi spinning pattern is the four-petaled antispin flower ... to lay out all of the components in a schematic. My main components ... footprint for my USB-C port anywhere on the Internet, so I figure out how to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  with my wing  at next house, each floor is divided into two wings, and ... had an entire car of just [annotation note='four west, my wing in Next ... tournament but it was still really fun and my first quizbowl tournament! it was

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  “teaching is hard! The last time I taught someone anything was showing my ... days. YA has never been my primary genre. However, the YA series that were big in [annotation note="Divergent, Hunger Games, Mortal Instruments"]my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  ’ve seen enough smart people dedicate their lives to (in my opinion ... would take my hand if I asked, and march until morning comes, dew ... of my friends asked me: “are you ambitious?” i don’t remember my exact

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/thoughts_on_the_mit_interview/   People talking about their own interview experience: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/my ... our website here. I remember my own MIT interview was one of the most chill interviews out of all my college interviews - we talked about my

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  Campus, what do you eat?” My answers have varied, from “Free food!” to “A ... what I eat. This is partly out of curiosity toward my own collegiate ... have email notifications on my phone. When I see an event I want to go to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  located three miles from my apartment, however, so in addition to all the ... also biking lots! My body felt way better than it usually would in that ... ="alignright" width="300"] Copenhagen. Some more bikes in the wild[/caption] my bike

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  someone else someone strange. honor me, honor me My body won’t stop ... to think of words that are good my insights could be deeper my lines ... over work in the dark of my room. Better to do it in good company. This

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  As the summer turned to fall, my housemates and I prepared to move ... last time I did this activity with my a cappella group we could see each ... was given my freshman year, I help sophomores the way I was helped. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  hours of my time each week for the past few weeks. it's one of those ... wow are my saturday afternoons filled. i am not directing this year ... took a number of weeks before i got to know everyone in my floor. somehow

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  wrote a really long post, which is now my longest post on the blogs ... ended up double the length of my current longest post. so from the ... nanowrimo. (by the way my mystery hunt post is coming out tomorrow morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  as I tell all my friends back home who don't know MIT lingo, Admitted ... afterwards. My parents didn't come with me; they stuck me on a plane by myself. It wasn't quite my first time flying alone, but it was my first time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  ’t even my top choice, but after the amazing weekend, I caught myself spontaneously planning my life here on walks around the neighborhood and during ... ?” “Bio doesn’t seem that scary anymore, I think…” “Maybe I’ll dye my hair

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

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  with my phone, but there was pretty dim lighting and also my phone doesn’t focus appropriately the way I tell it to. Here are my meager efforts. Try ... this class, which will certainly keep me on my mathematical toes. 7

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  stuck with four classes per semester for most of my time here: freshman ... of my time[2], so it felt like I was well above my usual course load. Now, in fall of my senior year (gah that's still scary to write down

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  approached a quaint red-walled antique store, my watch told me that Raphael ... scampered up ahead of my friends. One of those pictures: The ground was ... least the thickness of my forearm lay stretched over the path. I stopped

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013