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  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  A few weeks ago I posted the Blogger Application 2011. We received over 50 applications for just a few available spots. The vast majority were from incoming freshman, but there were about a dozen from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  I wanted to post this a couple days before decisions came out but ... reviews, but it’s Spring Break now and time for all of us to take a ... like: Have faith in the fact that everything you’ve put forth has been a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  ). =/ Hahaha it's actually a pretty hard to read graph, but it's sequential by ... Building 46." This is part of MIT-speak. Here's a primer. Each of MIT's majors - known as Courses, with a capital C - is known by a number

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  's entry -- this is a challenging time for the MIT admissions office, and ... Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were ... styles, extensive vocabulary (250,000 words from a vocabulary of 30

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  engineer in the family, and feels like a trailblazer. "I wanted to do ... . However, rather than settle for a second choice, the valedictorian at ... that's fine because she had a plethora from which to choose, including a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  (seriously, 41 kbps? WTF.) for five and a half days. This is probably the longest I've gone without real internet in a very long time -- when I went to Jamaica for a week sophomore year with my friends Rose '05 and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of ... enroll. Colleges do decide whom to accept, but if you are smart about where to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  call for her UROP, I just took a shower after doing another Chloe Ting ... A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi ... opportunities specifically in DC, but more for a dedicated living space away from

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  you that i do remember listening to this a lot while sitting in 6 ... learned this song for my SO as a valentine's day present :,) Do-Re-Mi by ... almost a year ago (wow how has it been that long), i made an

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  and support by organizing into small squads of people that hang out a ... entire piece reads so much like a meme that i can’t tell if i’m just taking it way too seriously, but a lot of my friends have recommended it so i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  opportunity to imagine life in a world different than ours and envision what future technology and future societies can look like. I actually talked a ... -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  Campus Preview Weekend, none is more important than the CPW booklet, a 96 ... even the flame test. No CPW-goer would set out for a day's adventures ... disciples to curse the physical laws restricting them to a single location at

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  , but kudos to them for doing so. We had a few hours of free time back at ... it a listen! Day 4 [caption id="attachment_88593" align="alignright" width="225"] A top-down shot of the rainforest. I'd never held onto my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  . She told me all the awesome things I could do with a Philosophy major ... League of Massachusetts, I completed my final Youth Advocate training (a ... mentors gathered in the conference room for a final learning session and de

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  DID YOU DO???" let me tell you about the last time this happened. Go ... technical classes at MIT. I'm a crazy person. So I tried to find ways to ... multiple times a day. It started out with small jogs to the museum of science

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  kitchen-side 3-rooms do not. This is 423, a lounge-side 3-room that belongs ... , a rectangular hole through the center of the building. The dorm ... side of the building. If my door is open I have a strategic view of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  , until you do, here are three things you can contemplate: DID YOU KNOW? 1 ... alarm on weekends. Oh, dear. So, I awoke with a jerk at 8:30 AM yesterday ... particular Saturday, my early awakening was the result of a yoga makeup class

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  /ACT, or who can find a forthcoming opportunity to do so safely are ... already taken the SAT/ACT, and cannot find a forthcoming opportunity to do ... have SAT/ACT scores for a student, we can more confidently assess their

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  a few days. the night i found out i was deferred, i wrote: Watch me recite all the admission platitudes: not a judgment of character, rejected people still succeed, single answers do not carry weight themselves

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  person like me should apply early. Do you know what a normal early ... into MIT one day, do u mind me paying u a visit? I love visitors! (And I ... 't be a wuss and say "But there are fourteen hundred entrieeeees in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006