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• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  provided me, and I’d go to McDonalds for the Wi-Fi, where I would learn all ... be a nightmare. If you’re a senior, and you really want to get your ... MORE to get all my decisions from everywhere, including MIT, in March. I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  and was trying to process the new landscape, new people, and my new home. I had already committed to MIT prior to getting on the plane, so I ... some sort of physics lab tour, and I stopped in between only to get

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the ... get escorted out for. I got too close to the ropes. Enjoy it, Martin ... long after I was able to get tickets from one of my fraternity brother

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  worried! We are here to help you get your information to us. Thanks for ... .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically ... ] edu. If we need to follow up for confirmation, we will. Please only

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  . I'm going to need all the luck I can get. ... have to wear red daily to ward off bad luck. Somebody else asked me today why birth years are unlucky. I do not know why, although according to a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  enrollment") Both of these examples, of course, don't get caught by spell ... misspelled words I see on applications. And, thanks to GoogleBattle, I'll tell ... thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  hacks get covered by the blogs pretty often, this section is going to be ... to this. For example, did you know that [annotation note="btw i ... history” according to Wikipedia, was the voice actor for that pufferfish guy

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  't Doonesbury vote-bomb me though! A new class will be offered by the Economics ... for students interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent ... believe that the economists might have something useful to say about this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to ... to wrap up.  At least when you take an exam you know that, for better ... our robot on Monday night to be ready for the Tuesday night competition

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  music as much, which is sad. i'll try to get back on that. God of War by ... Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out To Get Us by Sufjan Stevens: this ... blogs for many years might remember that i've been writing love poems to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  to meet you!!! I know how excited I was for my CPW, so I can only ... -person CPW prior to the pandemic. normally, by this point, I would've hosted ... forth across campus to get 15 minutes at each event is not a fun time. tip

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  friends, new line of work. In the first few months of adjusting to fast ... ’ve forgotten how to share thoughts and information...without latent concerns for ... enough time to think of things to write for CityLab as is. Of course, now

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  [annotation note="I used Google sheets to record data and Python (numpy, pandas ... , "s") to a long word ("animal") and for that turn I would receive points ... , at 1.12 words per turn to my 1.10. Comparing points earned for single

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  respond, I procrastinate on making a new resume by getting back to psetting ... and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... need, and get back to studying for 18.02 and making a note sheet that I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  snagged one of the bikes for me. That afternoon, I came by to check it out ... getting by on a netbook since, an Eee PC does not make for a good primary ... things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  campus for a weekend, to do things, which are limited only by what the ... facing up: For those of you who haven't been to campus before, that ... participant. Fast forward a decade: our team continues to chug along, picking

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  normalcy returns. Please know that for students directly affected by this ... . Get in touch with us when the time is right for you and we'll be happy ... remain. I also saw a freshman for New Orleans. The mall that he did his pre

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is why I warn my freshman advisees against getting on "the treadmill." "The ... different or that you'd like to do and learn from), and then going straight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  motivation to get ahead on my classes for the next semester. This has NEVER ... - or rather, had it honed for me by getting my butt kicked in classes so ... management, once you get over the small hump of activation energy to actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  to apply for financial aid by the February 15 deadline ... rewritten the optional essay for my application and I just can't get it to a ... integrity. Thank you for being upfront and honest. There's no need to get a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006