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  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  As the MIT EA deadline approached last year, I remember reading over my essays obsessively, fine-tuning my sentences, changing words, and asking others for advice. It got to the point…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  QUOTE: “MIT is a very good place; I’m not trying to put it down. I was just in love with it. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  The Early Action deadline is fast approaching — it is this Sunday, November 1. I’d like to field some of your last minute questions here in this entry. I’d like…

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

  Don’t Panic! MyMIT will be inaccessible on Saturday, October 31 from 6:00am until 10:00am EDT for essential…

  

  As the message on MyMIT says, MyMIT will be inaccessible on Saturday, October 31 from 6:00am until 10:00am EDT for essential maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience. I thought that…

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 30, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  Life has been sprinting by these days, and I go through periodic cycles – making rounds from “Hey…I can do this…” to “OMG. This is impossible!” and back again. But…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pick My Halloween Costume! Mm, crowdsourcing.

  

  I feel like dressing up for Halloween this year, but I don’t really feel like finding a new costume. Fortunately, I already have a bunch of things on my closet…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alaska Where I am right now.

  

  I have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in Alaska. Not because it’s cold or anything, just because it’s a change of pace. Your…

  • by Snively '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  Hey all, sorry to be absent for… what has it been by now… three weeks? That’s inexcusable for a freshman blogger! So I will have to make it up by…

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  Bluntly put, this was the worst week of my life. Geez! you say. That’s a harsh claim. Perhaps you might soften it down until it’s fluffy like a throw pillow*.…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten years, it was understandably a big deal for me when…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts on Removing the Long Essay from the Freshman Application So long, extraneous passages of florid prose.

  

  Brevity is wise. …but I’m not the one being affected here. What are your thoughts?

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  While bloggers Jess, Paul, and Snively will be listening to President Obama’s speech in person this afternoon in Kresge Auditorium, you can join them virtually via the webcast of President…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  Hrm, ok. Let’s pretend everything is seven or eight days ago so that I can write about this as if it happened last weekend. [Begin Time Travel] (^ one of…

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog posts that mentioned MIT President Susan Hockfield’s trip to the White House to join President Obama…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  Here are a couple of other good questions that I have been asked by applicants. Maybe they will help you too. If I didn’t address your question in this blog,…

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Events

  MIT is Utopia Because the nice guys were here.

  

  The last 2 weeks have been such a whirlwind of activities. Last weekend was Utopia, a big boat cruise and party in the Boston Harbor. MIT CSC (Chinese Student’s Club)…

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  A couple weeks ago, an excited exclamation was heard, as one of my roommates (Jeanne ’13) discovered that she’d be hosting a prefrosh. In quick succession, her Facebook status was…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp and Circumstance bellowed…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  Hey everybody, I’m taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to sit through an information session with Karyn Blaser (MIT Admissions Rep). I think I’ve mentioned before that…

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  I have been back from my fall travel rounds for almost a week now. This year, I travelled to sunny Southern California. I visited high schools, met with students and…

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009