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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get ... school in the world to get into to begin with. I can use that fact to try to "proove" to you that it's not a reflection on you, rather it's an

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  things happen, like when your school is shut down by a hurricane, your home is destroyed by an earthquake, a close relative passes away, or other ... willing to work with you. If you need to work out a flexible solution for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  activities and stuff that I'd want to do, I decided to get all my homework done early and take my free Monday off to get ahead. And so I did. Cue the fun ... well. I hoped to get free tickets to Carmen from the Council for the Arts

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  everything from shadowing a doctor to working a brief stint at a finance giant ... decided to pursue a position at a fashion startup that boasted a fresh ... fireplace to work on my clipboard. It almost feels a little bit like MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  best to be as resourceful as possible. There is a process of getting our ... out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... a letter of recommendation, and also sent an email to my advisor. In

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  ask a girl for a dance to how to enjoy the whipped cream from my sundae ... ! Brother 3: Shut up! Mom: Do I need to get out Emily Post? If I had this ... better etiquette. There's a lot to learn, and there are a number of tricks

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  select a leader. Once you have, leaders, raise your hand” Me: *turns to ... : “Alright, you have a packet in front of you. You have 30 minutes to complete ... put together, on steroids, enhanced with access to a network of former

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  interview in Japanese conducted by my professor, where a partner and I were ... sandwich and a Honeycrisp apple that my roommate gave to me after apple ... by R.F. Kuang about a young Chinese scholar studying at Oxford in the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  go to grad school? How do I get a credit card? Is getting one ... ?  Should I have gone to a non-tech school?  I never see anyone pay to get ... should I talk to my friends from high-school?  When should I get a UROP

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  campaign. I was called up on a random night in October by my friend Sathya ... . It was a journey, but it taught me to be very resourceful. My next goal is to type one up entirely from a Mac at an Apple store.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  it. Akash continued that he was thinking about trying to get us into a ... gesturing towards in this picture, hang on. We'll get to that. As I hope you ... , always willing to lend the proverbial cup of sugar to a neighbor, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  thing I currently have to a job, and expecting me to have any deep insights about Career Fair right now is kind of like expecting a gorilla to analyze Hamlet, or a Harvard student to solve a math problem. So I'll leave

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  things! So what exactly am I up to for the summer? Well a little bit of ... working on a new project, I'll "think inside the box" so to speak, and ... it'll have to remain a mystery for now. But I will say there's nothing

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... uncomfortably close to getting scurvy, probably because I overestimate the ... to realize that I'm the furthest thing from a fighter... and I started

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles ... ). I also wanted to say a huge a welcome to the Class of 2024! This

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  Application Tracking portlet in MyMIT. The system is supposed to display a ... behalf of all of us, here's a big public thanks to them.) So this is just a quick entry to let you all know that everyone's portlet has been

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I ... . Every day, I am grateful that I get to spend time around them and spend ... an admissions blogger to watching a movie every night for PNR. College

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  . Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students ... to satisfy everyone in a class of over 1000 students o__o. Despite the ... spent months working on :) On Class Council, we tend to have a signature

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  I got up a little early this morning thanks to the time change and ... real, and I found myself stopping to take pictures so much that by the time I had a half-dozen, I felt like I just had to blog them (in addition

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIVE-BROADCAST: With the Void, Full of Powers [by Mei Zuo '13]

  

  [by Mei Zuo '13] "With the Void, full of Powers"              ~Albert Camus Yves Klein sought “to create an atmosphere, a pictorial, climate that is invisible but present.” Predicated by [The Void] I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011