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• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  handled by the *state*. If you get towed on a state road, then after you pay ... about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time ... 'm listening to the radio and driving (in a still-fully-attentive sorta way). I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  . Every minute that passes by feels crucial, like not a second is even to be ... so this is good!) Have a cup/bottle of water ready to drink by your ... Toks..) If you're struggling to get out of bed, play a playlist of morning hype

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Time-sensitive matters

  

  @MIT website. During CPW, I had the opportunity to check out the brand new ... 't go wrong. Hopefully I can help a bit by shedding some light on MIT ... Lots of questions waiting to be answered, but for today I'll just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  , business), get a “real” job, take a year off to figure things out, work for a ... middle of your sophomore year, to allow time to get a pre-medical advisor ... seemed like a great opportunity to get a different perspective on the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  realism sort of fashion. But it took me a lot of thinking to even get to ... find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... decreased significantly. But I think that I’ve still been able to retain a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  different squadrons to get a broad view of base operations. I was lucky enough ... opportunity to attend a 3 week base visit called "Ops Air Force" during the ... Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  Solomon '06 did stop by to drop off a copy of the new CD by Resonance, which ... encouraged by the quality of the deferred applicants that we will get to ... numbers up, we are likely to see a record low EA admit rate, lower than last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  and running to tell the rest of my siblings. I may have cried a little ... offer you admission to the MIT Class of 2012." Which, don't get me wrong ... just a few things I wanted to share with all of you. 0. CONGRATULATIONS

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  nobody was pressuring me to get a job - I have an amazing UROP that I ... employed was what me a worthy MIT student. I literally only wanted to get a ... *inferior* to getting a job in some way. This probably stems from the fact

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

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  -standard size/material envelopes (DHL, FedEx, etc.) get opened by hand. Documents ... to this, electronic test score records are sent to us by the testing ... then entered into the computer system, one at a time, by the great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  be as good.) The point is, IAP is great, you get a chance to explore ... do I mean by that exactly? Well since you asked, here is a list of ... . Seen lots of movies (prior to this, the last time I went to a theater was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  to Boston, I've been able to get a handle on things. Kind of. My mental ... , to work hard and get that A and spend as long as it takes to get it ... would only get solid A's or higher for the rest of high school. (By the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  our space tends to fill up, so a solution was devised. Student groups ... I quick e-mailed the SysAdmins here and they kindly directed me to a ... Scrawlings We'll see how many of those I get to, but they'd all make good

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  best described in How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose, by Vince ... prom date who is a math teacher in rural Washington now and trying to get ... to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  get a free high-five. Good times will be had by all. If you happen to ... ! If you're not, well, to quote Phyo '10, "GET PUMPED!" I didn't get to ... DChen '10 said, "when I left CPW, I was left with a longing to return

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  impossible right now. Life is now mostly a choice of how to spend my time the ... decided to skip 18.022 lecture on a whim to go to CVS with my friend to pick up her meds. Is skipping 18.022 generally a bad idea? Probably. But to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  chances of finding a job were pretty dismal, so I tried to compensate by ... campus to dispense food and swag to interested students. We even have a ... you don’t know what business casual means, much less how to find a job

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  Campbell is? Like, 50? And then what subset of those 50 want to get a book ... had dressed in full zombie regalia as a tribute to "Army of Darkness ... . She makes a point of ordering an large pepperoni pizza to take home with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art in burton conner making do in a non-mural building

  

  administration seems in their decision to oust murals. I did, however, get a ... 's tendency to set off fire alarms. painted by a '25, commemorates C2's ... longer supports student art—there's just been a shift to impermanent forms

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I fill out the self-reported coursework?

  section. We're simply trying to get a clear picture of your academic preparation by subject area—you can't do anything wrong when completing the form ... must be sent to us from your school to verify your self