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• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  occasion when I get to a story that has special significance to me. I believe ... of getting into any single school is quite small so you have to have a ... know that I’ll get to see them not just be a part of our undergraduate

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  think I have a personal twist to the standard style that actually might be ... noticed a lot of people have something similar to slim monocase but ... forced to carefully craft a blog post about something memorable you did

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  , munching on macarons. The following summer I obtained a PSC Fellowship to ... arrested at a peaceful protest."Mine was "Most-likely to swim the English ... as I had to swim through a lighting storm and 20ft waves. I prepared

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  Tech and did my bachelor's in computer science, and I used to work in a ... vision, and in that context...I had a hard time being picked up [by facial recognition software]. I would end up borrowing my roommate's face to get the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle @NatGeo, pls hire me

  

  During my trip to Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa I spent two days on a Game Reserve. We stayed on the very top of a hill in Hluhluwe , sleeping ... nearly got charged by a white rhino. I took a lot of photos. And the world

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  , listen to awesome music, get free Anna's Taqueria burritos, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, and see a demo by Harmonix, the creators of the PS2 game Guitar Hero; they happen to be MIT alums, and they'll be on hand running a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  will limit myself to 12 words in each caption. By the by, the entry ... A-woo-hoo! Since the last entry was such a frickin' saga (tm Betsy Hahn 1999) of hardcore text, I thought you'd like to look at some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  showing on MyMIT yet AM I DOOMED?") Let me respond to this series of ... . If the tracking system isn't showing a document yet, relax and wait ... get an email, and I'll post another entry so you can have any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  thing I said to the lab assistant was, "Can you give me a hand? I have no ... by a thousandfold, so I stuck a piece of white bread in the oven and ... or something. Thirty minutes later, I returned to the kitchen to find a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  , getting my favorite takeout food. Driving to the airport this morning (a ... kitchen table on a daily basis is really starting to sink in. It's not that I'm not ready to be leaving home; goodness, I've had two and a half

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  was a counselor at this one camp and I was supposed to do it again this ... point, any summer job will do, but I'm not sure if I want to be a camp ... . Students are also not allowed to jaywalk - Sheridan Road, a fairly large and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  . I’ve loved getting to be a part of my friend’s next steps in lives ... , working in the machine that is Big Tech. My day to day involves a lot less ... have been able to ship a few products that are out there in the real

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Getting My MIT Decision on Pi Day Pie a comic

  

  this comic was inspired by the pie invention scenes in Waitress the Musical

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  " section: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we're choosing a 1,000-person team to climb a very interesting, fairly rugged ... something useful or intriguing to the team, from a wonderful temperament or

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris' post, but then it stopped being brief, so I decided to post it here ... .) In response to all of these comments, I'd like to deliver a poorly

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  a high school senior, I applied to ten schools. I was denied by seven ... It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to ... decisions. We hope to finish by 3:14PM today, at which point we plan to break

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to avoid flooding in nonapocalyptic scenarios, is almost certain to lose

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  So last week, I made a trek out to the school down the street for The ... I had the chance to go to the game. We started off by visiting the ... to Yale.) And WAIT! This really is not just a rivalry of two schools

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  states where it is illegal to do what at a gas station? 5. What famous 1972 ... replied, with a laugh, "I actually told him to put that in the speech! I ... Alton Brown in the picture identification round. Overall, a great way to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... effort for people you care about. Sometimes, you have to break your back a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021