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• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  ’s hard anywhere to achieve your dreams. It’s going to be a tough ... ’re going to get in (relevant fun fact: MIT doesn’t do legacy admissions ... to show you why MIT is not the goal. From The New York Times, &ldquo

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  'll have to come up with your own). By freshman year I actually knew I ... * Little did they know that by mentioning MIT to me at that early age they ... that you could get D's in most of your classes and it wouldn't affect

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  the bloggers telling them that if there were 6 new posts by tomorrow at ... spontaneous trip to Washington D.C. to visit one of my friends, followed by a ... 's one thing that will help me get through psets, a ton of things to do

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  college application season is over, because you just really need to get your ... too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport ... irresponsible spending by writing a blog. i was in new york over the past few

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  there’s a way to balance the three as long as you're organized and realize ... thought there was no better way to summarize second semester than by ... , reservations were (understandably) very hard to come by. The only available time

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  attend but just want to see if they can get in). How do I know if I should request a fee waiver? Your decision to request a fee waiver is not unlike ... plagiarize your essay, we expect that you will not misrepresent your ability to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  afternoon. The plan was pretty sound – my flight was supposed to get into Berlin around 11 PM, leaving me plenty of time to get home and get almost a ... perfumes at the duty free shop, since I'm currently looking to buy a ~new

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  10. (I guess when you're the president, you get to ask people to take ... of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just ... tired and struggling to keep your eyes open and your focus on this pset

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  grateful that i get the chance to do this, though! every dance i’m in is a ... 's therapeutic and fun and satisfying since you get to EAT the food you make!! i ... —in the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  also force you to go to our beautiful gym and pool, and get your mind off ... ensuring that you will not drown if your get knocked into the ocean while ... first day of class, ready to get some tips on how to improve my strokes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new ... (here are a couple). And every new year, I find his musings to be just as ... “Congrats, Ceri! So you’re going to MIT?" to which I could only respond with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  So, I manage the blogs. Interestingly, the best way to manage the blogs I found, is to do it by NOT managing the bloggers. Might take a second for that to make sense. But we have an agreement. I don't tell them

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  . While all your CS friends are going off to Google and Facebook, making six ... decisions when times are tough. And you're going to get ignored time and time ... media, ranging from New York Times stories to Twitter feeds. Provides

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  way through a ropes course. Learn to paint. Roll your own sushi. Wear paper clothing. Travel to Colorado and Northern New Mexico. Spend a day ... weeks. Next week, however, some students will begin arriving on campus to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  genuine interest in your studies and hard work will enable you to get ... found in your body. Khademhosseini is applying his micro-scaffold to grow ... few people would deny that individuals are shaped by their experiences

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  game bundle to tell you that you should buy it. Here's a list of some of the games I've enjoyed from it that'll hopefully convince you to get it ... play as Ordell, a twenty-something bookworm who moved to a new city and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year! And so two thousand nine begins...

  

  -in-law's new house, enjoying the snow and festivities. (By the way, for those who ... zone! :) ) I've made my new year's resolution to try and work out more this year - what's your new year's resolution? Best wishes for a safe

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  journalism and I appreciate the opportunity to get to speak on this topic ... exposure to develop your own taste, so you may mimic the taste of those ... if your taste is good or not, observe the reception to what you do

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  something’s ended, followed by the immediate urge to check your phone an old ... forgetting what day it is eating because you want to keep your mouth busy, not because you’re hungry but because you want to keep moving

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in ... thing you can think about in your mind without worrying about getting ... 1980. There, engineers had been trying to get computers to exchange

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006