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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  a favor, and introduce yourself to me. I'm very friendly, promise. To ... their application. In light of this, I'm going to tell you a story. Maybe ... . She had applied Early Decision to Cornell and was expecting a decision

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  tried several times to get a better picture of this, but I couldn't get ... the mechanical routine of a [annotation note="closer to a 9:45ish-to-5 ... -a-glitch-in-the-simulation-but-unnerving-enough-that-I-had-to-take-a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this ... we get to critically examine programming languages from a design ... people to show up to things and trying to get people to take responsibility

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  winners a year may seem like a lot, but according to Forbes there are 15,000 nominations per year to choose from. That's a 4% acceptance rate, less than MIT ... blog written by our Alumni Association) More Than 30 MIT Alumni Named to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  semester is a time to make that daily fire hose drinking session a little bit more bearable by finding people to work with and understanding what ... amount of time to classes every moment where I could have fun was a nice

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  foliage that is almost impossible not to take a picture of when you walk by ... , and orange of the leaves, for me, always adds a new type of warmth to ... too cold that you need to layer them all under a puffer coat that makes

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  , 2012. Next, be sure to enroll in a college/university by May 1. You ... application. You should, however, continue to get good grades, as we may call ... admitted from the waitlist? First: there is a link to the waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  ]) Before I write about my experience at CPW, I have a disclaimer to make ... ). Basically I wanted to get the most fun out of my stay per unit time. Hey, from ... to make contact with the balls represents how much I was overwhelmed by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  invented at MIT by Gerry Sussman and Guy Steele, was first described in a ... Frisbee". Is it art? A joke? Is it even funny? Hard to tell. But now we ... about re-creating a paratelic mindset. It starts by lying on the couch and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Kerry, Ireland. It’s the launching point to walk the Kerry Way, a nine ... get dark, and my phone was dropping rapidly from 33% to 18%. It climbed ... fallen to 16% when I decided, fuck it, it was time to call a cab. The light

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  . They are also teachers of a type when they talk to each of you during ... something like a teacher when you talk to them. And this is how... I know ... about you and you get to teach them about what makes you different and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT--participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or ... a Glee themed event, there was little opportunity to go wrong--until I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  activities rather than taking the month to rest. But it was a good busy, a ... to take advantage of the fact that New York is a cheap bus ride away ... with TA-ing a course taught by blogger alum Elizabeth C. '13 called

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  , 2013. Next, be sure to enroll in a college/university by May 1. You ... . Please don't try to draw a trend line from 3 points - it's ... application. You should, however, continue to get good grades, as we may call

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I ... into Jeffrey'13 leading a cluster of frosh from his FPOP. As is wont to ... bloggers, blogs were...blogged to. Frosh: Are you excited to be a senior

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  we haven't had time to go grocery shopping in a while, and fresh ... to practice with me makes her happy. (Aside: My mom was a cheerleader ... school geometry by cheating off my dad. She came to 18.02 (multivariable

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the ... again in a couple of months. If you didn’t get the answer you are looking ... I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going ... -based interactive fiction: type a command to execute it. There's hundreds of commands ... . Also good is 99 Ways to Tell a Story. Some of us were travelling together

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline Q & A

  

  teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in our office by ... ” to MIT, not “processed,” by the January 1 deadline. Please allow 10 ... interview has passed. Slideroom portfolios need to be submitted by the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • December 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for a whole day until he flew down to New York City to appear on The ... founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007