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• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  on international admissions (I attended last year as well). The conference brings together guidance counselors from schools across the world ... people, and came away with a few new ideas. One of the most interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  over to the table where Brit '05, Lara '06, and I were chatting and boomed, "So I see this is the Brass Rat table!") There's a standard pair ... you, and where did you live? Most of the professors were, of course

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good luck on finals! The reason I'm writing this entry is that by now, those ... the most important things in the world. Your parents' friends have used

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  Ambreen wrote: "What is the rationale behind question 'what ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... with: "on the same note, should we have October scores rushed to MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  (This is part 2 of my oh, the places you'll go blogpost because they ... to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so ... , I decided to take 6.145 because I started to entertain the idea of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  't even quite understand what right means in this case. I spent the first ... whirlwind vacation trip with Raymond through the non-Spanish European cities of London, Paris, and Amsterdam. It was the perfect reset before coming

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a ... pain on the other hand: advertising works. recruiting works. activism works. these fields are built around the premise that you can change the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  friends, the list goes on. And yet, with all these achievements and friends ... sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  a blogger. But sometimes reality takes unexpected turns for the ... ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... live with the fact that most things aren’t going to turn out how you

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  , about once every other month. The people surrounding me have brought up ... ." So I took this all into consideration, and I have come to the ... to try to find out what's wrong with me.  I also went to the MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  before so be easy on us, but the way this is supposed to work is that we ... , getting a feel for the demographics. There are no international students here so it looks like we get to skip the Intl admissions part of the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  realized we started reading the MIT blogs when we were still in the thick of ... a story that let them know they were not alone. So that’s the story we ... transferred. But the transition was not very smooth. This time we were not just

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  there. This post, just for fun, is the unboxing of my cabinet! I'll go through all the food I have stocked up, talk about where I do my grocery shopping, and try to defend my hoarder tendencies. You'll have to be the one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  the department in charge of student groups, sole, describes their role as The Student Organizations, Leadership and Engagement Office ... 've worn many hats with the student groups i've worked with, and i wouldn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  question, as if I’d never snapped out of the trance of college apps, and one of the most common ones I noticed was “what are your hobbies?” But ... a sense of identity. Despite what the title of this post implies

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  [/annotation] this semester, and part of the class involves observing at local ... setting; at the same time, I don't know how much chaos is too much chaos ... make my environment work for me was not something I had the power to do

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that ... of the #pandemiclifestyle, partially because it's my last semester and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  wanted to update with some thoughts and things since the spring semester ... and talking with people, I made the ultimate decision to drop 6.009. I ... happier! I have a lot more time in the day, now. I can use the time to go to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  they set foot on campus. One of these papers is the famous list of "101 ... 's what the list would look like [annotation note="Disclaimer: I am fully aware that some of the ones on my list are also on the official list. The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... super fun and the two guys running it are very good teachers -- I love

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019