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• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  book, Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen ... name private high school? Or is it possible to get a good enough ... schools that tends to reward the most ambitious, hard-working kids. If your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  teeth that need to chew on something or you’ll grow wild and mad, and so you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I ... with modular origami, folding [annotation note="great way to get started

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  , and he was able to get a really great vantage point to take photos the ... best measure would be to get some sleep and just watch the fireworks from ... to go down and get as many free tickets as possible for anybody

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  you're a student. You get to live in a dorm (your assignment from the ... , you get to check them all out and compare them to where you're living ... to your current dorm (up to 5, I believe). Some people will get their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS ... comfortable place to be. Pro tip: ATTEND YOUR PROFESSOR'S OFFICE HOURS. DO IT ... do so, I need to get better at my science writing - so that's one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  WRAP-UP! As a favor to everybody who worked on the puzzle remotely ... it came right down to the wire. We were frantically solving puzzles as ... . I'll post answers to the puzzles you guys worked on and some to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  loose to do it, we each took about one hundred twenty minutes.  After you’re ... , I can get caught in my head; I like the freedom to pause and breathe ... on a curve to get a certain bend, how much to let the metal cool before

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  “menace to society.” As I googled Amaud Arbery’s name I almost threw my ... SICK AND TIRED I AM SO DONE WITH GOOGLING THESE NAMES! I DON’T WANT TO ... , and part of me feels this is how someone wants things to be. Just… get

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was inadvertently reminded, thanks to news reports, that he was once a child prodigy ... Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  your legs and the feeling of your throat getting dryer. In that moment ... though you’re sweating profusely, small hairs sticking to your forehead and ... the world. The wind blows through your hair and the ground seems to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  a fearless innovator with “new and insightful ways to tackle ... has tinkered with bacteria to make them produce a petroleum-like fuel ... ’s clear that he can’t get enough of its taste. He arrived at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  ! That's CRAZY! If you're going to be taking the General Institute ... ...whatever) just wait until you get to campus. There are always upperclassmen trying to sell books. Ask around your dorm, spam the email lists, and you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  across Europe. It seemed like the perfect way to get into bike trekking ... done anything similar, and all you have to work with are Google Maps and ... the end, I decided I would get to Italy later than Kano and only see

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  i made a dress out of target bags i also edited a video about it

  

  on my Google Calendar has been blocked out to finish my Target blog and ... needed to get through this. And thank you to the Academy. See you next ... that I can do big fun things that contribute nothing towards my to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  or forget to check Google Tasks, as I am wont to do: "Feed Kristina ... for twelve weeks and I didn't get to touch a kitchen this summer, I ran ... top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  , officially. To quote their website: "Throughout the year students may also come ... to get a tour of the famous strobe lab myself (I'd never been inside ... Okay, so what I am about to recount for you happened like 2 whole

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  Google search did nothing to dissuade my increasing heart rate as phrases ... hours of sleep; maybe you get pneumonia and have to drop some classes. But ... 2016. Today Claire has achieved her dream and is goin to share this

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  one too. If you're a student with too much food, you get to give it away ... you hundreds, perhaps thousands, on labor) to get checked out. The ... of the blogs know, I prefer to bike to work anyway, and the MBTA gets

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  folks are super-excited to help answer your questions as you transition to ... to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the username into the people search; 2) point your web browser to http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  with a robot is like trying to play chess without knowing where your ... closest my team will ever get to a cash prize is the 27 days we spent ... get to sit in the same room as the real winners and eat free pizza

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015