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• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  plenty of times) and I don't do so well on the meeting-new-people front ... abundance of free time was a given) I’ve been spending less time on the ... hear a story behind any of the other things on my bulletin board (all of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later ... schedule, and you never really are able to stay on top of everything. The ... companies are looking for what you've done on your résumé? Hmm, good question

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  new one, because I figure this one has the SEO. I still think most of ... shorter way of explaining this now, though, that I sent to my high school ... advice on how to write an essay for one of her students. here is what I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  I did three things on Saturday, and each one of them rocked. Better yet, each one of them rocked in a different way, kind of like a charity ... decided that it was time to conquer her fear of bikes, mountains, and New

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  enough (I planned it), this happens to be the first day of classes on ... I will want to look back on at the end of the semester to see if this excitement is just first-week delusion or the start of a new chapter in my MIT

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  from Arizona on the train, I made my way out of the station and into ... merry Irish way and I on my American way. I took this last picture of Lake ... Queen's major recording studio. The statue can be seen on the cover of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  'd done perhaps 70% of the lab at this point, but due to the way this lab ... to put nothing on my gcal. i spent most of it with casey, but also with ... a mix of places both new and familiar -- the mfa, chinatown, boston

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  petrified forest. We climbed a vertical 1000 feet, some of the way on our ... graduate of Hamden High School, #6 in my class, good grades fine scores ... , memorable experiences of your life. I. Everything was a new thing and it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  Those of you who have been following me on the blogs for a while - or ... hands on[/annotation], and literally cannot count the number of times that ... Friday, on the 10th. Short version of the story: I got the game and played

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  I said I'd do it, no? Many of these websites won't have information ... . YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANY SUMMER PROGRAM TO GET INTO MIT, by the way. I ... some of you may want to look into, what with summer often involving large

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  , and walking around on the floor of 10-250. Okay. This was especially ... demonstration of some modern music. On Saturday the marching band headed over to ... , they labeled most of the common household objects on the floor in Russian

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  know pretty much every single one of the groups on that list! I have to ... MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  outside of the Gulf Coast moves on, and the Office of Admissions is still ... . Sometimes, good things happen. This morning I presented the on campus ... working on ways to accommodate displaced students from colleges and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  opening of the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT: On ... opportunity to collaborate in ways that promise progress on some of the ... based on sets of symptoms rather than underlying biology, a messy way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  go on your transcript or not. My point is, you meet a lot of cool new ... that you will have wished you got them all out of the way freshman year ... As I sit back and reflect on my four years at MIT, I would like to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  all sound Jewish." Jim Conroy, chairman of college counseling at New ... College in Maryland in the fall. One Saturday morning on a small New ... . Alena Davidoff-Gore, a brand-new graduate of Baltimore City College High

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Discovered a new academic interest Acted on a love interest Challenged ... alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it ... some are also my own). I’ve collected here some of the responses from a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  . Just an “oh that’s new” kind of way.  At Walmart, we spent too much time ... has a way of bonding friends: you experience the new with the old ... tales of how both of these trips came together: 2023: New York, NY and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... 're quite interested in finding ways of making college admissions and the high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  ’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... ’t really scared of doing anything! That said, I also think a good lesson from ... of you in some way: how are you involved in your community, what

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015