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  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  amazing happened. The website crashed. ZOMG THE SITE CRASHED If I recall ... only a few hours before the deadline (maybe the site won't crash again

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  for the big tech companies are usually on-site interviews, which means ... with on-sites tend to miss about two or three days of school, and ... get an offer (or don't) soon after your on-site. I can't speak too much

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  there are so many of you young 'uns coming in. This place is a magical

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  . Pronounced "kill-ee-un." Kresge Auditorium - One of MIT's nicest auditoriums

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  par with the Uffizi. I was just walking along, la-de-da, lookit that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  email address, so I checked out the site. Turns out it's run by a

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  landing sites. Hacks generally appear overnight since actually putting a ... hack, postering the admissions site and the MIT homepage with them

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  I first saw the job posting, I checked out the MIT Admissions web site ... admissions site, well below the scroll, but in almost no time they were ... should build an entirely new admissions site that reflected those things

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  for Zoom like[annotation note="Very UnVirtUaliZEabLe Activities, such as

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  social network sites as we know them today, and so a college admissions site with a) student-written blogs and b) open comments was a kind of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  major delays to the site that you guys are. Also, I just did a measure of ... warnings on their website, they had a good time protecting their site from us

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  site because it's hilarious - and it's also where I got the above two

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  admissions site has reiterated many times, there is no rote set of actions that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  identified as Lutheran?” I’m going to just google the MIT site, and while I don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  gets un-normalized, and my heart beats all fast, and I get the flutters I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  and web sites that have been useful to me at MIT: F.lux. If sleep is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  interviewees back at the site to wait. This was actually really cool because we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is Ben Jones' famous "It's More Than A Job" post from March 2006. I've read and re-read it so many times, and it rings true to me every single time

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  'd probably end leaving the testing site to check my email.

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007