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  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to ... we do in admissions, and what we can do to improve our process. One

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  have [annotation note="A cautionary note to the freshmen reading this: you should probably not expect to marry the person you broke the ... spent my time anxiously waiting to get vaccinated for COVID, doomscrolling

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  student entrepreneurship clubs and organizations. In addition to taking on roles to revamp the African Students’ Association, he was one of the first students to participate in MIT’s Sandbox initiative. Working with Sandbox

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  Sooo. It all ended a few nights ago. The all-nighter turned out to ... working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... were literally quite impossible to do, with my limited orgo knowledge

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio ... , one of the club's new members. I'd only been to one MINCE pop-up before ... before the pop-up, I got an email telling me I had been selected to attend

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  medication to kick in. This time was feverish; I felt as if my consciousness ... , I think, is universally agreed upon to be an age at which you’re painfully unaware of the world but slowly beginning to realize how little you

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  quiet mountain, and then realize we had to walk back."]in fall,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson I have a car. I had some daring plans to go hiking every other day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  call to adventure [caption id="" align="alignright" width="500 ... they desire. There’s Intro to String Theory, Ballet in the Soviet Union, and How to Stay Private on the Internet, the list goes on and on.  MG

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

    6.006(6.1210): Introduction to Algorithms  21W.771: Advanced Poetry ... the class I liked the least but mostly because I wanted to take all of ... this semester, so I have to take the seminar"]Undergraduate Teaching

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  between us. "Probably," he whispered, "that I've started to think like an ... month since I last went to Dumpling House. I was meeting up with a group ... were going to meet along Mass Ave. I arrived at Mass Ave shortly before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  was originally meant to be a one-off post, but in writing it, I found myself having a lot to say about the impact those classes have had on how I ... 'm doing, what I think I might want to do with my life. Back in September

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

   Let's get right to it. What went into making this year's Pi ... message to Angela asking if she would be interested in potentially working ... turned out, I didn’t need to because I was recently assigned to join the Pi

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  directly to experiences that I've had at MIT, or people that I've met here. The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a fun exercise, I decided to go back to my freshman year bio and annotate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  my experiences enough to come up with some deep analysis of my semester ... with the world differently than I used to. Things I used to enjoy kinda suck (like sitting on a beach all day). Things that used to suck are

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at ... to the gas station to grab a few drinks. Fifteen seconds outside, and I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  , I’m just so glad, happy, elated, delighted to be here with people I’m already in love with and in a place I’m so proud to call home. (Alexa J. ‘20 ... despite everything, it’s hardest to leave. So what’s the third year like

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at MIT) and then threw dice to stochastically select among the remaining ... takes you to an article from New York Times magazine by Daniel Kahneman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you ... talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of weekend. “Being hosed” is an MIT phrase meaning “having too much to do and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  their professors as they try to strike it rich at blackjack by counting ... received a full scholarship worth more than $52,000 to attend MIT next year ... -year varsity starter in the outfield for the Warriors, applied to the MIT with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  call the other and put the phone on loudspeaker to spread the joy ... ways, I was extremely jealous of him. He gets to spend the next four ... then we headed back to our rooms. As we crossed Sixth Street the angelic

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008