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  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  accomplished what I set out to do: earn my graduate degree…at the cost of ... Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can ... which an institution offers you glory, but at the cost of sacrificing

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a ... official member of the broader MIT community, I find that it is difficult for ... . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  parents. Old friends. Blotches of forest in the neighborhood where deer ... views of the setting sun. Here, I get the best seat under the setting ... this summer. In the beginning, I braved the Boston streets in a week of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  Computer Science.' Also one of my brother's received a bachelors degree and ... , November 1. I'd like to field some of your last minute questions here in ... currently have a backlog of materials in our processing center, and expect to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some ... dreary stew of words I’ll call a story when my alarm goes off. The stupid

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  crown during the walk. Some of my teammates told me I reminded them of a Burger King employee... which makes my eventual MIT degree all that more ... , breakfast, and lunch!) Though he's spending his summer thousands of miles

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  organizations. While some people curl up at night with a copy of Sports Illustrated, or Cosmo, or even Wine Spectator (if you're a special kind of ... other things full of ideas that tend to keep me up thinking. Few

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  photographer, writer, fimographer, and visual artist. On top of that, she is also ... for the month of February, was created and curated by her (with some art ... , here’s some notable parts and video work of the exhibition:  

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  temperatures (it hit 62 degrees F today, just shy of 1932's 65). But we were inside, happily working towards admitting the Class of 2011. Tomorrow, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  , we are nearing the end of our series Introducing the Class of 2013. An important note for today: All of MIT's financial aid is based on financial ... this. Without further ado, here they are, as written about by members of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  Name: Amy Perez Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions Hometown ... , Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome and the Boston skyline, both of which are right outside the Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  SIMFEST!: Battle of the Fakes Forget skill, your goal is to make it look ... As Vincent mentioned, the MIT Class of 2019 freshmen are currently ... leader for a group of twelve freshmen (GO Purple 48! You know who you are

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  of the capstone options for the aeroastro degree. in true mens ... classes started last wednesday! here's a cross-section of my ... .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My grandpa shared an anecdote of his childhood with me that I think really ... I first came to MIT, I had an idea of what I wanted to do, but who

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of their room numbers. Each of the four floors is concentric with the shaft, a rectangular hole through the center of the building. The dorm

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  Since January, I've been having a sort of crisis about my place at ... me by and, apparently, get into MIT. But it's this very method of ... difficult problem, they don't ask for help after ten minutes of trying or even

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  reading assignments with only a moderate degree of success at remaining dry ... my schedule such that not a single class of mine runs past 3:30 pm. This was done primarily to create the illusion of actually having time

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  buckets of mail, plus all of the online application pieces. It's pretty ... MIT portal, be patient. We still have a lot of application pieces to enter and ... League Ice Hockey Phi Sigma Kappa 3 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004