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  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  by 105 words. Unfortunately, there's no "real" answer to this question ... important part of your application, since you have the chance to open up about ... . Yes, the essay is important, but it's hard to make your writing more

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of ... other reason than so I could blog to you about it, but the incredible ... every single IAP activity that strikes my fancy. It's tragic, to say the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  this letter, sent last week to the MIT community by Chancellor Cynthia ... 's letter to the community on November 9, the day after the election, he wrote ... same application as everyone else, are still subject to the same

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  at Harvard and only came to the BSO to get off campus for a few hours ... Senate. It was a good, good night. MIT had some event to celebrate the ... didn't to that because I scored free tickets to the BSO courtesy of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ... us. If your team wants to reserve a room (or more) through the official ... , we strongly encourage you to register by then anyway, but will accept

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  ?!?" Baffled by these little men, I tracked down my friend Steven '15 (my go-to ... Some of you that frequent the blogs may remember that last year around finals time, MIT had an invasion... Well as I walked to lab last

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  I just took a break from reading to watch some of the webcast of ... so proud to be at MIT. According to the project website, the ... , 1 Megapixel." The plan is to initially roll out the computers in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Road Again Adventures in Texas!

  

  , and El Paso - Kim has been hanging out there!) Well, it's off to the ... Just a quick post here - I'm actually on the road right now, doing ... tweeting" (although isn't all tweeting sort of live by nature?) of my

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise to ... 'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the rest of the ... controversy. I would've loved to see a woman on the seal. It seems illogical

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  bizarre thing to get used to. But in addition to the people I met from ... Well hey there, blogosphere. Newbie #4 here. To the admissions ... 's definitely not as hick as it gets, I've gotten stuck behind tractors driving to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  were deferred in Early Action (the system is unable to display decisions ... the process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order to ... the same username and password that you use to log into your My

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  expanded to 22 campuses in 14 states. Camp Kesem at MIT, founded by Caroline ... . The program is open to all children ages 6-13 in the Boston area. I will ... in the same boat with whom to share thoughts and feelings, and a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  finally sleep after the launch). Tune in to our presentation!!! I'm one of ... crop top originally purchased for Barbie, and a t-shirt given to me by 2 ... with warmth and reminds me to cherish the community we have here

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  Traveler Convention. Got to love the wonderfully hideous modern architecture on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool--down-to ... of a small town--one of the best places to live on this planet, really

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  't about to settle for an official camping site. We parked outside the first ... minor car malfunction weren't going to prevent us from enoying the scenic ... blue sky rustled by while some Australian men sang (very well!) from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  kid who's into science; most don't get the chance to spend time with ... first and third Friday every month, the refractor slews to Saturn or the ... cluster in the dome, waiting for their turn to climb up the wooden steps and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  's pretty inspiring to see all those folks from the MIT Instrumentation Lab ... with Kwatsi here] But perhaps the most fitting MIT tribute to the moon ... , the Apollo Lunar Module "landed" on the Great Dome: Photo by Eric

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  of this. But this blog post is about the elephant in the room (read: elephants outside my room). In an effort to not get so over-burdened with ... to dumb it down make it my own. Here's the week-long process, in photos

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday ... Boston. P.F. Chang's was packed, but we zipped to the front of the line ... from Panama. The Altar Boyz played at the Colonial Theatre to a very

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo

  

  For context, Tetazoo is the name of the cat friendly hall that I live ... and Random that allow cats. It's a story that gets told at every MIT information session that historically, this hasn't always been the case. Back in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 25, 2022