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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile. You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu's post about his life in the cloud ... about how much much she loves Spotify; and Abby's post about the blogger

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life ... indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had ... offer. It was with me the first time I went abroad and has been to as many

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  . It is the first installment of the Guide to MIT (coming next: residential system), inspired by the recent comMITment of the Class of 2022—WELCOME PREFROSH!!! The sections of this post are: 1. Degree Requirements

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  (especially as they appear in the Tumblr studyblr community). I had long ago lodged “MBTI” (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) into a closet in my head ... friends who all told me that over the summer they’d been going through

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  We've gotten some questions about our essay prompts for the ... (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is ... application, with 5 short-answer essay questions (I've blogged about the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  having classes and tests during CPW, we still put in the effort to throw events and have a good time with the prefrosh. My fraternity, Phi Kappa ... the ones we do for Rush. FSILG's (Fraternities, Sororities, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head, I'm reminded of the times I said 'UROP' and my grandparents thought I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  We’re approaching the end of the semester with remarkable velocity ... classes have already assigned the final pset of the year. Post ... which nobody was very attentive, I’m sure), and, at the appointed time

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  college, you can write whatever the heck you want." -The same wise person (READ: PLEASE DO NOT ACTUALLY WRITE LIKE THIS) Q1. Describe the world you ... , that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  generated tweets inflected by the voice of various academics, journalists, and ... the source texts, they are probabilistically written in ways that the 'actual' authors never would. The practical result is that you get tweets

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  interesting -- something outside of the bounds of routine admissions ... counselors are calling flabbergasted that the best students of their careers ... out there. Many of the questions that we're getting are totally

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  his name, but in my mind, he was already The Hispanic Guy Who Speaks ... Chinese... Kristina and I were teammates on the MIT Sport Taekwondo team ... . The next time I took a Chinese class would be at MIT - and I ended up

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  Growing up, the thing that my parents were the most strict about wasn ... to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn ... . But come to think of it, the only thing lamer* than my parents' rule

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  The most popular question in all modes of communication -- blog ... stuff? (Or, "OMG I sent my stuff before the deadline and it's not ... ;t yet shown up on the tracking system. We're still processing lots

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  2011 Internship: IFMR, Chennai The skills I gained and the ideas I got ... take some classes at MIT at the econ and anthropology departments. It has been a very good opportunity to learn how the economic theory can be

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  laminate wood floor while blasting out great music from the stereo and pretending to be becoming the master of a new kind of swing/slide-jazzy dance ... the individual. Passionate people don't lock themselves up to do what

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn ... by the committee during regular action. You are at no advantage or disadvantage versus the regular action applications. We will admit the best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  are buzzing... the semester seems to be in full swing. This semester is ... journey with my major choice so far at the Institute. I began with my mind ... couple courses in the department, I determined that this was not the career

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  10:51 PM, on the farewell eve of Infinite Activities Period: School ... embryonic guts over the creamy, supple blankness of winter vacation. This ... supposedly impressive. Probably half the problems were just to take logs (the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn ... by the committee during regular action. You are at no advantage or disadvantage versus the regular action applications. We will admit the best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010