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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online ... . It's an honor and a privilege for us to read your applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even ... rolling their eyes. The mother wanted to know how students would get food if ... -school counselors get together, they have plenty of stories to share about encounters

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  sometimes the things that you are most scared of turn out to be your biggest ... in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on--that you're ... garment bag around to medical school interviews. (I actually got that bag on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  apart in every direction. I quit the plasma physics research: to get any ... to a new domain? In group meetings for this salmon project we get even ... , which I came to appreciate over the two years that I did this research

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  the last several months, as you have been waiting to find out your ... staff, I want to say thank you for your interest in MIT, and for sharing ... different from yours. This opportunity, in fact, may turn out to be the one

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway, Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... else on MITblogs, appears to have been born with a last name). Sympathy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  ’s vision come to life. Meeting her, getting to know her, is like taking your ... such casual import. We have two to three meals daily, and we should get ... know what you’re gonna get. Love, MINCE.” The head chef of this event

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  schedule for the remainder of your week, to take advantage of the adrenaline ... solitude between 6 am and 8 am. Halfway through your run, take a moment to enjoy the sunrise. Stick a colorful flower in your hair. Say hi to the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... mind when it comes to stepping outside of your comfort zone. Who knows ... -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  undergrads. Basically, it gives you a vertical timeline to plan out your ... , but I was lucky enough to get a position as a contractor at Facebook ... dream to get to help with this this summer, and I'm so glad it's

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  -down, I want dinners together, and parties at midnight; I want things to get ... I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker and carry my laptop through campus; don't want to fold my sheets all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  most MIT students i've spoken to, and probably most college students these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... fall, even in spite of my tremendous workload, made me want to spend time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  , the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood ... nation I'd always loved was finally getting to know and love their LGBTQ ... to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  gig. If I was chosen to be part of the team, I would get to code ... undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their ... . (Though listings are far from the only opportunities available - if you're

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  compounding nature of falling apart. I try my best to get ahead at the beginning ... home. It is good to have a space to call your own, and to have people to ... I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  you get to choose where you live and stay with something like a family ... . No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who ... is hard you're all in it together with your classmates. Then you will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  ; your decision should arrive any day. I know that your frustration is ... while people in Cambridge have not. I can't explain this, other than to ... to the holiday season, and (2) we had a major blizzard the day we

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  need that exact word, you get your point across just fine by basically ... quite amusing. I will try to explain this without getting too ... said to me: "You're how old?! Oh my God, you're a baby!" ...exact words

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really close to campus, actually. Like, so close that I get this breathtaking ... schedule around, and get ready for the semester to actually start, all in the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  Station and we headed over to campus to get all registered. The highlight ... getting pwned, it's ON Laura! BTW, this has nothing to do with Laura or Sam, but if you live in Burton Conner, this is the kind of stuff you get to

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007