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• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  While I was on vacation this past week, MIT Dean of Admissions ... required to put more focus on the academic preparation of the applicants ... the mildest of interest. If they are good grades, terrific. If they are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  ! MITES Summer 2004: Students coming out of dinner at Vinny T’s on Boylston ... community within the New House Dorm. One of the best things about La Casa is ... students. One of my roommates is a good friend from Spanish House, so it

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  Prudential Center on my way back on the Boston University Bridge. Sunrises over ... the hypercompetitive environment of gunning for grades and a good ... watershed moments of your life where you look back on, and say, "Well, if I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  of SLACs and state colleges in New England...and also to the College of ... , but the first episode I really remember watching was the night of September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  four books sitting on my shelf - part one of Haruki Murakami’s new book ... videos of me very aggressively quizbowling on a show called Granite State ... a club that you sink a lot of time into freshman year to get good, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  I've taken care of all my graduation requirements. On my way to turn ... introspection, sometimes they creep into my life nonetheless. (I'm the daughter of ... completely not-sappy movies like March of the Penguins and Sahara.) Today was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  by volume. Earlier in the year, as part of a series of talks on things ... some friends on the bananas.org forum, and the new Welcome Center has ... saliently connected to the blooming of new life, a cycle of renewal and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  better way. The emails I received came in the form of nice daily ... thread  On the evening of September 8th, a member of [annotation note ... A couple of weeks before the school year started, I spent countless

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  and north of Connecticut and east of New York and west of the Atlantic ... at Subway that I had on March 12th of 2005, the crumbs of which I have ... Tan novel ever written. This is just a complex way of saying that I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  Really Good Chinese. I got to know him better last January on an IAP trip ... on Facebook, Gchat, or Tumblr, there’s a good chance it’s from her. I ... “culture shock” and see how fast of a learner I was. I'm sort of a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... question. "No," he responded. "Like, I also don't believe the amount of good ... performance in all of New England. In the days before sales opened, social media

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  of that night. Alan: On our way back from Sloan, we were walking down ... orange-yellow, brick building all the way on the other side of Mass Ave ... much more useful embedded in the names of the pictures on the website

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  brush and floss every day for the rest of your life to have good oral ... idea of what i wanted to learn or focus on, and part of it was me ... season. beasley knows that he’s a role player on a new team and that a lot

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  on our website you're really just not trying. That's more of an opinion ... few theories as to why we elbowed our way to the top of the list: OpenCourseWare: MIT courses for free on the web. What's not to love about

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the ... on those later. At the end of the summer, I returned to MIT for pre ... When I was little, I went on what I proudly called “adventures”. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  of children gathered around glass cases on foldable tables. What were ... hour in. We sat on the rocks and watched hikers pass by. A lot of them ... its usual circuit. Maddie and I got on the tram for a new and unusual

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  this post is just a collection of goodbye-related passages from some of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to figure out which of these came from cj and which ones came from vincent

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  chatted every other week. But, as the years went on, the frequency of our ... reasonable amount of energy where I can reflect on my stance on friendships ... In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  -based. That is, we consider each applicant on their own, within the context of ... way up, and the number of qualified applications is way up, and thus ... , but rather is structured on the merits of the individual as evaluated by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  -dunk margin on the rest of us so she decided to spend most of her victory lap ... later (on a timer still for the sake of the game :P), but at this point we ... introspection, kind of like a fluid and confessional way to explore the big ideas

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024