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• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  machine, provided to me by MIT. When I’m not reading apps, I do a fair ... don’t take a ton of hand-written notes, but I do love using this little ... glamorous alchemy.) How many applications do you read in a day? Well, it

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this ... /weekend (maybe both, I’ve got a lot of work to do this weekend). Just kidding ... doing it wrong. Anyway, although I’m a field intern, Microsoft this past

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  Author's note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in ... win that I didn't do any editing or even make an attempt at decent ... promise that my other posts are a lot better. FUBN USELESS FACT:  

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  doing whatever my part is, and then, in a blink of an eye, whether three ... we agreed to be in a room together, doing or seeing a show. Those ... just a bigger version of that. I still keep doing shows, even though

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  doing the internship application grind a few weeks ago. i've been doing ... hour or two doing a technical screen for them?"]again rejected me ... -level details. what does your company do, exactly? what is a typical day like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  school required us to do a senior project in order to graduate, and I chose ... definitely plan on doing a rewatch at some point in the future--maybe when ... to do anything about it. When all of this came to a head, I started

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  , I noticed the sky was pretty cool, so I took a picture, as I do. 9 ... created this monstrosity. Do I regret it? Not for a second. It made solving ... ice. 12/5/21 This email was a pretty gold one. I do relate to the pain

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  ). Sometimes people ask me why I'm doing this to myself, but I just tell them ... dropping a single one. 1) and 4) I just really want on my transcript when I apply to graduate school. 2) is a class with my research advisor, and I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  more than a job, and we do not expect you to be perfect, we expect you to ... remember that, as I wrote last year, we do not give any kind of preferential ... much from last year, but we did make a few minor tweaks:  We

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  was a counselor at this one camp and I was supposed to do it again this ... point, any summer job will do, but I'm not sure if I want to be a camp ... weeks. In short, I am a glorified counselor at nerd camp. I do, however

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  spent a couple of hours doing the lab, needing minimal assistance (save ... because one of them is a 3 unit class, meaning it really doesn't take up ... originally took 8.02 this past spring, but got a 25% on the first midterm

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of files. One of them contains a lot of documents that I definitely wouldn

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  . At this moment, let’s do what we can. I believe a place to begin is by ... Today, the Class of 2020 graduates — virtually — from MIT. On a ... grass, taking photos and giving hugs. Of course, today is not a normal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  After a lot of searching, I’ve discovered a video on YouTube that is ... . Hello, my name is Snively, and I’m about to get hit in the face with a ... Burton Conner. Recognizing my desire to blog a bit before then, Laura

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  crying selfies because obviously that's what you have to do after a good ... .02 lecture outside, so we grabbed a blanket from the pod lounge and headed over ... graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  driving experience, I still needed to get a learner's permit before doing my ... have to do it in a manual transmission car) and I was able to pass that ... Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  -feel-like-we’d-rather-be-doing-more-artsy-things”) was a big reason we ... Course 4, all you need to do is find a supervisor for your study, and then ... This past June, we wrote Axes of Confusion, a post about our struggle

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  decision”) on your screen. So you wait a bit longer. That’s all you can do ... star with “great things ahead of you?” And what right do I - a girl who ... not been surrounded with a network of anxious friends. Yet, I do

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  with your host. Do you need a sleeping surface? A pillow? A blanket? Is ... other students are up to, the Closing is a lot of fun. And both events do ... matches visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  arrangement - we do this because, although we are a south-asian-themed group, we ... for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south asian a cappella group. this post is a look at the different components of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021