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  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  you're finally going to take that shot and how magnificent it's going to ... do it” (Amelia Earhart). So if you get scared, “don't be afraid of your ... , it’s hard to wrap your head around all the sheer size of a lofty goal

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  friendly company? The math gangster you dreamed to become? Now’s your chance ... . Start here. First, from fellow bloggers: -- On getting to MIT from the ... exactly where you want to live, exploring may help you meet your new best

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  's only .75% of your grade when you only need a 40% to pass the class ... works best for you, so yes, you'll actually have to study for your midterms. Do your psets so you can get into a habit of knowing how early you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  the news with as much interest as your kids are. But getting the "answer ... easy since there are many decisions still to be made. Before things get ... grandfather or me. When the dust settles, you'll need to help your child make

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  responses of your friends vary, and it's fun to discuss different answers when ... introspection. One example, "to what do you attribute to your success," generated ... ? Check. Getting closer to them as you learn things you never knew about

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  Today is the beginning of IAP! IAP, or the Independent Activities ... Experimental Chocolate Truffle-Making, Introduction to Special Relativity, Old ... competition at MIT where people team up to solve lots of puzzles (which lead to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  it to other animals), but you get a clean biologically-derived fuel out ... grotesque biological slurry of turkey carcasses (left) to 250 C, you get the ... lighter subject (get it?). You might expect an MIT laboratory to be really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  )  Regular Action December 10: Last day to contact your interviewer and ... school to receive your scores when you take the test or we will not receive ...     tl;dr: Click here to apply to MIT.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  me. But I’ll get to that in just a bit. In Closing, A Few Things From ... journey from the first uncertain scrawl of words to the final product was a ... ’m writing it? Because…because… I want to? No, not quite. I mean, yes, of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of ... your application in any way.  What if I can’t get my financial aid ... @mit.edu—and be sure to include your full name as it appears on your application

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  play as you're getting ready to head back to the 'Tute, because, well ... to after your little brother has insisted on listening to Owl City and ... still have four glorious days of summer break left, so I will continue to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  hobbling around on crutches, and didn't get to take the swim test with your ... plausible, not because you didn't know how to swim but because your ankle was ... occurs to you that breaking your leg could actually prevent you from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  . You don't get something for nothing. In addition to rerouting your life, making you rethink your values, and so on, MIT can do interesting things to ... your life in interesting ways, if you let it, but you have to let it. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  dictated by the circumstances of one's birth. ????? You don't get to choose if you're black, white, or somewhere in between. You don't get to ... adjust to life at an institution like MIT. I regret that I didn't get to go

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  semester of your MIT experience, and it's coming to an end. Sophomore fall is ... years, or maybe because you're "locked in" to your path and desperately ... decisions about what you're going to do after you leave. You haven't been

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  everything "right" to get into MIT or any top school. It's really important ... talents and interests. Let us get to know you as a three-dimensional person ... Traveler Convention. Got to love the wonderfully hideous modern architecture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  's worth of clothes so you don't have to unpack and then repack your temp ... you get to campus. I did not follow this advice when I was a freshman ... to be waiting for your grades for a week or so.) I've fulfilled all my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  how stupid you must be to let that get to you again your rage is ... time to properly support me, getting woken up at 5am every morning by my ... expand to fill the night sky’s infinity your river of hair tickles the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  ending!) Anyway, the best advice I have for you is to get really excited ... where you go) and to keep your eye on Matt's and Ben's blog for more info ... about how it's not so bad getting rejected from your first choice school

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  your commitments. It seems weird to think that, for some students here ... , since you tend to spend most of your time knocking down GIRs prior to ... (which is still pass/no record), and to a lesser degree in your second

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011