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• 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  guideline: don’t get the blogs shut down. MIT operates by setting a ... authentically. We can’t write about what it’s like to be in a Sadoway ... . The day-to-day experience of your life at MIT is a perspective only you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• 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 / 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 / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  "]anthropology class[/annotation] until the following Monday. I didn't get a chance to ... we could get a car. Without a car, there's really no good way to get ... -filled time, a time to relax, hang out with your friends, and have the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  , so we get a long time to decide our final schedules. I've been ... New House, which basically means I get to help cook dinner once a week ... "shopping period", in which they get to sit in on classes and decide if they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  , cozy blanket to curl around you while you wait. here comes a thought by ... get a rejection letter. And the best way I can think of to calm your ... wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019