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• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  , if you're a bundle of nerves and it feels like your future is riding on ... , and try to remember to take care of yourself because you can't keep ... 't quite empathize with the feeling of your whole life riding on a decision

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  the river On its bridge with wooden piers, Like the odor of brine from ... digital publication working on real, creative stuff, and since my micro ... over a longer period of time. Instead, I tend to lean on a series of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  LOLZ CATS In which he creates one of his own to explain his extended absence.

  

  life over the last few weeks better than any blog entry could. :-) (I'll get to your questions soon - although most of them are about missing materials, and Matt already did a great job of addressing that topic

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Stress

  

  Two pieces that stressed out parents and students may want to check ... 's own Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones) Speaking of parents: to the ... any feedback you'd like to provide? Your thoughts are appreciated!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  , I only got a 700 on the math section of the SAT I (gasp!), and I don ... , which is actually part of the School of Architecture and Planning and not the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.) We went to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  've got four piercings on my right ear, and two on my left[/caption] This past fall, just days after arriving on campus, a bunch of freshman girls ... gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of sage advice, most of which I had wish I wrote down and saved, but I didn ... training, and there's no time to dwell on anything else except the feeling in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  around campus and add a variety of guest authors to our blogging program to ... biggest weekend of the year, so we begin working on it months in advance ... that I haven't had a chance to think up any good entries - sorry guys

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  Union, Harvey Mudd, Olin College, RPI, and the University of Chicago. For ... helpful to the committee. We do not expect or require any of these things ... , the kinds of applications any school (including MIT) would love to have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  . 1), RPI (Jan. 15), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 2). For those ... end of February. You may also want to keep us up-to-date with any news ... committee. We do not expect or require any of these things. Simply sending in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  of other things too! eating, crying over problem sets, and idk like the ... -lived episode of m*thbusters and bust out the party music because WELCOME TO ... -dunk margin on the rest of us so she decided to spend most of her victory lap

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  learning how to cook and clean and all of the other skills required of ... said, my days of partying and running here and there from event to event ... 'm graduated, I think I may focus more on things that are more abstract and not

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  dryer. The ends of my hair have withered and splintered, and my face has broken out terribly due to an unfortunate combination of sunscreen and ... , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  any work on my birthday (a girl's gotta have principles, okay?) - and ... Heisenberg operators for position and momentum obey an analog of Newton ... -cinnamon mousse. That night, I put on a dress and makeup and did my hair, slipped my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  number #1 overall winner of international Olympiad competitions, and many ... School 7% Home School 1% Number of different high schools represented ... class includes students from Kansas and from Kenya. The class includes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  adjusted to the lack of actionable emails. My new thing is going to work and ... , 2019, 4:26 PM[/caption] Who cooked a porkchop and then just left it on ... [/annotation] to keep water and stuff flowing up to the top of the plant, but that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  Ellen Swallow Richards Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a founding member of the McGovern Institute. She joined the MIT ... and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Q. Can you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  on your MyMIT account in January and should be completed as soon as ... to the committee. We do not expect or require any of these things ... recipient and we will consider any new scores. Can I call admissions to find

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  Galileo, one of two new kittens on Third East. He and his brother were ... importance and excitement of engineering careers; he told us about his life ... , and his stint on a TV reality show ("Colony") building flamethrowers to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  , some eat on campus for all their meals, and lots of people do everything ... based on card transactions, and even set up alerts to remind you of things ... of "prease" if Biology has taught me anything) and finally become fully

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009