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  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was ... . Wouldn't it have been safer to submit the overly-edited essay? I gave MIT the new essay, and MIT gave me admission. For those beginning their

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  life, or at least life at MIT, is like snowboarding. You may or may not know that I absolutely *LOVE snow. I love snow more than MIT loves ... stuff, so listen up: When (if) you come to MIT, you might feel kind of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which ... 't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  commitment? – I thought I’d explain what Greek life at MIT is like, especially ... impactful decisions I’ve made regarding my MIT experience.  Whether you are ... and learn more about the process! Intro to Panhel What is Panhel? MIT

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... MIT Mental Health services. I realized, awkwardly, that I recognized ... activities in the MIT community, including Chinese Students’ Club, the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  anniversay of my MIT journey. 10 years ago today, I was just about to start my ... that I would attend UW Madison (wrong), triple major (typical MIT frosh ... to schools. I eventually realized that MIT was the community I wanted

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  people were better than me.  By the time I got to MIT, I didn’t have the ... moment I joined the MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group to see everyone ... of an ADHD diagnosis my sophomore spring, my ADHD MIT therapist Dr

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this ... from fellow alums who have felt similar things. It's a reminder that MIT ... at MIT. Additionally, my job has completely monopolized my individual

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  just giving snapshots into MIT life. For the first couple days (or at ... spam MIT Admissions with too many daily updates, so I'll put all the ... at night This is Not a Picture || VEDA #2 – #askMIT, career fairs, Big

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What I wish I’d known, and what I’m glad I knew Before coming to MIT.

  

  asked me what I wish I'd known before I came to MIT. I wish I'd known ... never worried about how I compared to my fellow incoming MIT students. I ... look into that my freshman year. Yeah, MIT students are awesome, and yeah

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  for MIT students who are considering spending one or two semesters ... all times! It’s supposedly really similar to MIT’s 7.20J Human ... classes I took at MIT during my freshman and sophomore year, which mainly

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... culmination of an MIT career. They were given to only the perfect students, with the ideal MIT lives. There’s already a flaw in this reasoning, but we

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  been placed with a traditional advisor (only advising) instead. but mit’s ... semester, we chatted about major plans, extracurriculars, life at mit and how ... need coming into mit. being thrown into the deep end of mit’s potential

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
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  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  entering MIT. Don't worry, I'll wait.) And three, because I'm about to be ... . And then three of my very best friends in the world decided to leave MIT. (The retention rate at MIT is something like 97%, in case you were

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Train Coming on navigating

  

  Song: Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne train coming. Before MIT, I had ... drove my friends and I to MIT were so nervous. They wanted a detailed ... arriving to MIT would look like as a first year: Go to check in, and go where

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023
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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in ... that option, including the [annotation note='There is an MIT shuttle to ... limited given general student patterns of life.']vast majority of MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  other form of transportation. The route to MIT from where I live in the ... MIT campus, ostensibly has bicycle lanes on either side down its entire

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and the life of an MIT student, my pictures are not about my life as an MIT ... Fall). That's because most of the things I'm doing now as an MIT student

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  sustainingly intriguing enough major at MIT or elsewhere. b) If there is such a ... elucidate the lives of MIT students, and this subject has definitely been on ... -maaann-what-the-heck-am-I-doing.) MIT, as opposed to some universities both in the United States and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  reading old issues of The Tech, MIT's student paper. Soon enough, I found ... the MIT Reports to the President, and I even ended up interviewing Matt ... wrote in the 1984 Report, "the character of MIT’s student body is dictated

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021