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• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  that I perceive science. Back in high school, I used to get by by ... self-study and proceeded to get 5's in all three subjects. For a long ... Yo-Yo Ma when he came to Boston in an outing organized by the Burchard

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  have done a gazillion APs to get into MIT. Most people who apply to ... application is, by its very nature, an invitation for you to highlight your ... verbal baggage. However, don't get me wrong - you should by all means fill

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  major I ended up declaring, go to grad school, get a job at a biotech ... to get as much experience as possible in the fields I was considering ... .  And by that, I mean our instructor said: "I want you all to design a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  with ten or so others the minute they get wet, and think it's okay to ... moving to another dorm next year. So to sum up, don't get tunnel vision ... shocked when you get there to find everything's not always puppies and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  , and originality. Open to everyone, do it by yourself, do it with others ... By this time I'm sure most of you are finally enjoying summer. (Let ... -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  ! And, don't worry, if for whatever reason you don't get to talk to an MIT student tonight, there are plenty of other opportunities to do so. (We'll also try to make some more phone calls next Tuesday) Also, admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  Services Office working really hard to get those grades in right now! Anyway ... ." I noticed that it had to be in by February 9 or I would suffer a $40 ... History Channel that was trying to determine the precise location of Sodom

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  and everything had to be done by hand. Today, club members design ... If you don't go to MIT, when you think about "hacking," you probably think of nefarious nerds tapping away at Internet terminals, fueled by

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  story seemed to fall a little flat. And for those of you who were upset by ... to eat. For more blog entries that begin with great food recommendations, browse on over to Mitra's blog (this week: Thai food at Chili Duck

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  another one in actually seeing those places. I did try to get out when I ... , getting permission to be or do something new. [carousel image1 ... instead of drowning in it. On not being afraid to make mistakes and get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  's hard to imagine a simpler mechanism. And yet, to get that simple took an ... was to get that solution after all the design and iteration we had, but ... streak of a week is getting old). MIT is truly an incredible place to be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  pleasure getting to know each of you this year. You are amazing, talented ... here at MIT. If you're here in the fall, drop by 3-107 and say hi to us ... leaving MIT to get her PhD. She was one of about 7 people in the world to be

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  check your decisions, DO NOT listen to Vienna by Billy Joel immediately ... ’t get admitted to MIT, I will personally ship you Maseeh dining until you ... So, on Slack I asked Ella '25 and Jenny '25 to help me with this

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  gave me space to get started; there was no worry that I was being judged ... challenging to navigate. Carpal tunnel syndrome is theoretically aggravated by ... it out by trial and error.    I went to physical therapy this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  . You’ll work hard, really hard, but you can get used to it; you’ll strike ... problem set on Tuesday afternoon and get done by midnight with a few breaks ... . I was reluctant to get up from bed—I always am, really—but I managed

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  Infinite and through Dorm Row, we managed to get every single hot dog eaten ... sunny weather for this week. I should preface this by saying: I love CPW ... it before. Mix the two together and you just get a really excitable and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  abroad program. I figured this could be fun, getting to work somewhere cool ... the more I hung around, the more I wanted to get to know them better ... [/caption] We went out to the pub together a few times to hang out and get drinks

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  interning or working for the fam (which, by the way, adds up to 40 hours a ... die. Each of us gets to choose.” Whether we like it or not, you and I ... chose to do the work. We wake up in the morning and before we even get out

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  important points in there. A common question I get a lot was articulated by ... enough to get you into MIT. Invariably, someone takes that statement and ... ideas how to get him noticed beyond the normnal high scores in school. He

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  from how to get an interview to how to succeed once you're there. Learn ... dinner was catered by Vinny Testa's of Boston. We took a cab back ... inquires, "How's your wife/husband?" The other responds, "Relative to what

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005