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  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  hosted by the MIT Club of Northern New Jersey. As the only accepted MIT ... answer session. A New Jersey MIT freshman had come from her spring break to ... to Admitted Student Gatherings, social events for mingling with other

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  the echoes murmur louder Get up and fight me Are you afraid of your own ... me and show me fears Wasted, without sacrifice I lay to rest your ... vanish from my todo-list i’m getting tired of fourier transforms these

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  Californians what Dunkin Donuts is to New Englanders: it is so familiar and ... , which has a new digital media magnet program open to all students in LAUSD ... like me to risk the strong seas churned up by Hurricane Norbert just off

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  Unified Engineering your sophomore year. Mostly, you get to wake up at ... get to do this every day. You get to do one double-pset and a lab each ... /astro major, you also get to do this: It has lightning bolts on the side and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  to run up until the Friday of that week. So basically, you're learning ... realize that your schedules may look like this (click 'em to make them ... in New Hampshire, which is to say we went paintballing at OSG. Among

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  record straight: that hasn't happened. And it wasn't a requirement to get ... for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting ... chances of success by adhering to a set of guidelines as a passionless means

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  semester of your MIT experience, and it's coming to an end. Sophomore fall is ... years, or maybe because you're "locked in" to your path and desperately ... decisions about what you're going to do after you leave. You haven't been

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  class I instead have to be at work by 7:30 AM. I work in Rhode Island, meaning I have to catch the 6:25 AM commuter rail to get there. Of course, the commuter rail leaves from South Station so I need to get there first

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  that we need to make a decision on your case. I get the sense that some ... . It is too late for any supplemental materials to be considered by the ... hearing all over:   I've just read your post saying that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  , getting permission to be or do something new. [carousel image1 ... another one in actually seeing those places. I did try to get out when I ... life hands me to try something new, and breathing through the fear

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  of time speeding hazily by. I've been...  Trying to cook food more ... to October...) and building gliders for it. Running away from getting ... .  (4) She had to retaliate against getting cake smeared on hers. >

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  Normalisation, created by BBC journalist Adam Curtis. While on a gap year due to COVID-19 ... '22s[/caption] To make the movie, they went decade by decade, searching ... by Crumb is one of my favorite songs, so I was startled and thrilled to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  get really good at it and they'll never make an error by going into the ... , which is one of the top three journals in biology. And I get to be co ... nineteen behavior mice, as I am done testing them and they are to be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  friends. i never get time to watch TV during the semester, so it was wild to ... so hosed we didn't get to watch it before the others did! that night ... get to spend time in nature, so it was a lovely day. [caption id

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  to learn about what it's like to have free time when you're not burned ... . To get interesting things done, and go interesting places, solely ... _row images="50384,50385,50393,50394" caption="L to R: my new whiteboard lookin

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• 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 ... , whatever. Anyway, I want to know - how hard is MIT? Because I keep hearing it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  Symphony Hall, so if you were to use your free College Card courtesy of Arts ... deal before you offer your intelligence :) for those who want to join ... birthday, I rarely ever have the opportunity to celebrate my birthday with my

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  idea of using an oscilloscope to render a video game is not new. Many ... .2060 is that we get to build the circuits and code that power these ... problems and allow me to load new songs on the fly. This was indeed the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  they did get into MIT by some miracle-lightning-strikes-a-unicorn-and ... possibly getting into not only MIT, but to any rigorous, awesome school ... you feel like you're not actually the right fit. To know that you have

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  to see how high I could get the stack. I also have sensitive hands - I ... throwing your app in the trash!)   Happy New Year! ... send it again?!" (Please no.)   The answer to all these

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013