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  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  answers to your recent questions ... to get a recommendation letter from a current MIT undergrad student? Do ... trying to get that score up if you can, but one score will not keep you out

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  getting closer! 10:45am: A quick walk through Lobby 7, soon to be the site ... 2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a ... Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  classes do not contribute to your GPA. Freshman spring you will start ... , you might need to learn new content on your own. No matter what, you ... your first semester to be easily fixable with these versions. These

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... 's just a way to get students matched with an advisor and start creating a ... moon. Having the opportunity to get a bachelors degree and then

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  Hey prefrosh! Welcome to campus! If you're not here yet, hurry up ... you aren't sure what to do yet with your CPW, here are some tips from my ... this cool one MIT student and get to know them and blah blah blah

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  , where you're done with the process and don't have to run the gauntlet of ... about. But I was lucky enough to get into [annotation note="MIT, if that ... salty about. It's REALLY HARD to get into all of those schools. Flash

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  to head over and get down with our bad selves. If you want to feel ... , "According to Google dot com, he had many lovers." This makes me go "Eggggghhhhhhh." I don't think it was at all acceptable to say "Google dot com" in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  to Mari to "post" to the old, old admissions site This was while ... needed to customize its own site to unleash the magic and bring blogging to ... 'm doing lately, and how MIT has continued to shape me post-graduation. Since

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  (you're still going to do it, right?), so long as no pictures are taken ... . And I'm trying not to get skin cancer.) A better picture of me ... : lots of people are glad to hear that even a wreck like me can get into

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  the ApplyWithUs site. Check your MyMIT account to follow the progress of ... WithUs. Most of all, try not to get too stressed out! Go out with your friends ... understanding with teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... commentator famous for his opposition to illegal immigration, and you may also know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  ! Although I get to do it for fun, and you get to do it while biting your nails ... like that in your life. 2) It helps to get an English teacher from a ... vengeance - spamming the owner of the guilty site - to acceptance - writing a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  fraternities, sororities and Independent Living Groups tried to get the MIT ... -generation... If both your parents went to MIT... If you intend to major in the ... rose to, “If you have fears about your ability to handle the workload

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  better. You will get into the school that you were afraid to admit was your ... your disheartened lack of care. Life mirrors art: during [annotation note="independent ... that you wanted to be more academic and rigorous, and failing your first

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  finished while you're at MIT so you'll be able to go check it out if it gets ... and getting excited to finally make it to campus in just three short ... YOUR help. Our shows take about $200k to build through to completion and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  him when he gets deferred. i want to tell him, hey! i struggle, and have ... dimension in which i get to know people. but that meant that all weekend i ... to get them all done after the weekend, even if it meant grinding them

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  a blogger outing to go get ice cream! Best day ever! Argh, now I have ... 're googling themselves -- hi professors, I really do like you!) So my big news of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  said: I still can't get to that pset site. I'm taking some calc classes ... . Nah, pass/no record will be your God. You don't have to worry about ... before they ask you to do it. elaine said: i came across your blog while

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  satisfying to us, especially when you finally Get It and Make Connections ... , we get to learn how to code a variety of image manipulations from ... ! Danny’s Classes: CMS.S60 Drawing Comics and Sequential Art You get to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  sites like Quora, College Confidential, and /r/ApplyingToCollege.   ... yourself without remembering that you're distracting yourself to forget the thing you're trying to forget (but failing, because now you've remembered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017