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• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  unmanageable. A sign of first degree squalor could be that you might be ... losing the use of normal household items like your bed, table, television ... house. Just the thought of someone seeing your mess causes you great

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  One. It's the first time I'm seeing Sean in three months. He's the ... friends for four or five years now. The first observation he makes upon ... you've looked like before and inform you of the change now. Another

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  I spent the last two weeks of IAP abroad. I had thought about ... for my Lyft in the frigid parking lot of Boston Logan airport, my friend ... for me to get back. Over the course of the last semester, my room has

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  I was with the better half of my umbrella that tried to fly away on a quest to Random Hall, where the was word of Truffle-making. When I finally ... to find stuff to do. Solace came in the form of a very pretty asian

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  'll focus super-hard on all the other pieces of your application. No worries ... with your interviewer to send us an extra (first?) copy of your interview ... a bit of all three. But the numbers all point in one direction: you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  % of students got their first choice in the summer lottery and 26% got ... choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice ... usually due around the third week of June. Late July -- Housing lottery

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  from the Part 2 of the application, except that we're only looking ... Report deadline of February 15th. This is okay. You should choose the ... Hi Everyone, The MIT February Updates and Notes Form is now

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  , and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first ... start with things that have remained the same since I left MIT. My love of ... shell. I had developed a real confidence in my self for the first time in

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of ... pool. 2005: Excellent, and better than the majority of people who were ... class of 530, because I didn't want to play the "take all AP classes and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief taste of what to expect from me over the coming weeks: Famous ... how hard is it to land a research position in the first place? All of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  ’t even noticed that i’d been enforcing the implicit constraint of only ... this state of being is actually fairly similar to the previous one ... the extra work i was doing was worthwhile? i invented a lot of answers

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  . I made a little video of the event. Here are the highlights. Enjoy ... Last week, I attended the MUSE Colloquium hosted by MIT’s NSBE Chapter at the Black Students Union on campus. NSBE is a wonderful

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  of family here, people who really understand you for the first time ... problem together, first you need to find a partner whose level of ... out the pitfalls of others. It seems like working with other people

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... ; I was so jealous of my friend Helen--she was working at the ed ... only a handful of the 2019s I know who ended up interning over the summer

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  new goodies. The first, and most notable, is the glasses-free 3D top ... one of your eyes, creating a 3D image. The 3D is cool, but irrelevant ... ) abilities. With a certain predefined image displayed in front of the 3DS

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  as part of the admissions process. You can read about our revised ... discontinue the use of subject tests starting with the 2020-21 admissions cycle ... to evaluate the academic preparedness of every applicant through other

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of ... of me just could not wait for the day when I would be on my own in some ... There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... is introduced at the beginning of a text (oftentimes in the form of a ... interaction a synthesis is produced that incorporates elements of both the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  get day by day with the pressures of class and work by really trying to ... dynamic place full of lots of diverse people, so the admissions process ... university where you would like to study, I say "Go ahead." I'm a fan of the

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of ... I couldn't figure out how to calculate the standard error of my GPA. Then I tried to plot the hours of sleep vs. number of units taken

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005