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  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation ... was interesting to see directly the amount of outreach that’s been done to MIT students generally and first-years like me. Since starting this

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  weeks ago) is sitting at her computer, trying to choose classes, looking ... -ten... like a list..."]top-ten[/annotation] personality traits; so, to best convey my point, I present to you the not-at-all-exhaustive and not

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  education to the public through longstanding institutions like OCW and MITx, Course 7 has decided to livestream all lectures to the general public ... students and the general public are welcome to join Professors Richard Young

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  to classes for a while. maybe some of you are far away from any ... through the air, i’d stand by my window all day and whisper comfort to ... sad to think that, if i added all the stress i feel right now to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  eruptions bring to mind the old tales passed down from our elders. i’m from ... talk about volcanoes, and my teachers have been old enough to remember ... enough to have been through the worst, but it was near enough that they

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  date; it can be helpful to add them to a calendar app or spreadsheet. Don’t wait until the last minute to submit. Life loves going wrong when ... ’t going to reject you for forgetting an apostrophe, but why give yourself

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  seldom has enough free space for me to actually get work done.  [caption ... ~[/caption] here’s what’s on my desk, from left-to-right, top-to-bottom: my friend ... agent, and I actually got to see her at Boston Book Festival last month

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y'all seemed to like it, so we made another one for October! This month's theme is to get hyped up and get shit done! :) Give

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... to upperclassmen as a warning not to mack on the frosh, Newton's Third Law dictates that it applies to the frosh as well. An important note

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  weekend.     The purpose of this homepage is to reaffirm MIT ... , President Maclaurin began his tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more ... the world.” To achieve this ideal, MIT provided admissions pamphlets in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 13, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  i contributed to in my urop at the center for civic media:   ... from mit. even when you're not on leave. i went to a documentary play about race in education and the school-to-prison pipeline, called notes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  There were many wonderful applicants for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of ... open forum for you to talk and shake it off together. We understand

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave ... class in space systems engineering) have led to real systems for ... to understand the world, but trying to understand how other people make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some ... what to call; that's okay too.    We'll

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  There were many wonderful applicants for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of ... open forum for you to talk and shake it off together. We understand

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to ... the Maseeh Hall announcement screen: “MIT gets hard. I’ll get to fixing ... what it means to actually learn from mistakes. Relationships, personal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  There were many wonderful applicants for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of ... open forum for you to talk and shake it off together. We understand

  • by Decisions
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if ... lot to glean from the comments. of course, the platforms all have some ... embarrassingly MIT? we're lucky to have some people share their good news. there

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014