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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  reflecting on these things during my last few weeks at MIT, but I wasn ... do grown up things in the grown up world. What did I learn at MIT? (We ... years ago I asked my MIT interviewer what his favorite part about the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... a tear that I’m no longer young.) In 2004, the MIT admissions blogs ... was on the 10-year plan at MIT. It’s secret like the Pirate Certificate

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  than done, relax. Give yourself a pat on the back. MIT is one of the most ... means easy. The hard part is over (for now). A lot of adMITs will throw themselves into a panic because they think they need to prepare for MIT, when

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston ... , and I told her about MIT. Unlike most people I had told, her reaction ... that question entirely. Most MIT students don't leave campus much. There

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  'll start work at mit lincoln laboratory next may, and then i'll do the whole ... last few weeks of my last semester at mit were more of a slow burn than a bang. i sang my last concert with the wellesley-mit toons. classes ended

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  Wait. . . what? Thongs? MIT? Together? Here's the story. Well ... and, well -- I read this before I came to MIT and thought it was one ... wrap up entry that showed the end result of MIT's poll-bombing. Fast

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  of my work at MIT. Each year, we welcome a small group of transfer ... follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience, transfer students contour the MIT community in unexpected ways. MIT transfer

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  Nearly nine months after getting into MIT, one question I continue to ... what the right fit felt like until I visited MIT in April for CPW. Long ... right fit at MIT until I talked with my CPW host Erica, the most amazing

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden a zine

  

  Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  disciplinary or other action that occurs after your admission to MIT. We have the ... to MIT’s Class of 2022 have asked us if their acceptance will be ... from MIT solely on the basis of being disciplined for participating in a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  being a senior at MIT, and I think that was enough for me to finally

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity ... official documents, I could’ve came to MIT and introduced myself as Chloe ... common of a name and coming to MIT confirmed those suspicions; there are at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  health in the process. The ultimate goal was MIT, I decided sometime in ... that I was working to get into MIT. If I got into MIT, I’d be happy. And then I did. MIT is wonderful, but as Folkers Rojas, former MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... ones which consistently rank MIT undergrad as #1. My standard line at CPW ... getting a bad education. Choosing MIT just might make the whole process a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . If the amusing rivalry of Harvard and MIT was ever unclear, it makes ... , superior, but the differences cannot be resolved. Harvard and MIT are two T ... schemes. MIT is grey. Harvard is red and occasionally green with slithering

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  . If Harvard was closing down, MIT was probably going to do the same ... our email was coming too. MIT was going to follow suit. When the email ... campus why they chose to come to MIT, they’ll tell you that it was because

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... did you feel when you got accepted?" around 20% have said that "[MIT ... Tech (MIT's student newspaper) conducted a survey on stress called "Under

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  , which would make some in the audience gasp ("She got into MIT with those scores?"). But there was no mistake in admitting her. She rocked one of MIT ... top-notch student who had all the qualifications to succeed at MIT. So

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  : also lydia FROSH: i love them FROSH: they're why i applied to mit ME

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  think it’s important to consider why people apply to MIT. My primary ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a hope that MIT would provide me with an extraordinary experience en route

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011