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  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  ?) before you can graduate. I am not advising you to finish your PE classes by ... (and by extension, you) is paying a gazillion dollars to have a top ... going to wah-wah-wah through complaints like, "What if I get a bad grade

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  Photo Contest, in which I objectively judged photos sent to me by CPW ... had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by 10^2 pixels before emailing them to me. (Unfortunately, I have to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... have to drive a long way to get to anything. This was the first time ... for Examiner. Jess had to go to watch the new Harry Potter movie for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas ... can get back to your p-set. 36.a. Eggs with vegetables Effort: 2 ... in a non-dining dorm or you’re not on a meal plan and you want to learn

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  that were featured on the website. So for your viewing pleasure, I ... . If you want to learn a little more about Dorian, check out his website ... Yesterday morning I was quite surprised and VERY excited to see a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  choreographer? is this too similar to dances I've already learned by them? is ... bookmark the videos I like to my dance folder, which gets so long that I have ... 's so high-energy. Rock Your Body by Delaney Glazer—this choreographer

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  mom gets to learn new recipes, and my dad, my brother, and I get to eat ... ever by Maggie L. ‘12 How to get around MIT hunger pangs by Sadie ... I don’t get to make much during the semester, except on slow weeks or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  you to attend them. If you’re an AdMITted Student: this spring’s event ... your first MIT friends! Discover your “mini-MIT away from MIT.” The get ... you’re a Current Student or Alum: Make new MIT friends and welcome

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  learning, and if an education is what you want your daughter or son to get ... in the garage and I use it to get to A to B. My car at college rests in ... to put you in a new environment. Changes are destined to happen whether

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed ... to essays (see, e.g., this post by me, this one by Krystal, this one by ... you to be strategically nonstrategic in your own essays, and not try to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  banner and potentially get new characters.  There is loads of stuff to do ... was a new experience which led to a lot of frustration and more ... keep searching for his sister and talk to Liyue’s god, who goes by

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... to get to know different aspects of each individual. Here are this year ... friend. Describe one way in which you have contributed to your community

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College ... that kids need to be perfect. We get rewarded by U.S. News rankings for ... read or listen to the entire story. In the New York Times: Her Mission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  TOO FAR! They may get freaked out if your IM pops up and your best ... . Disable your IM and then walk away. Parents, Welcome to the Nance Effect! For the last six months I've spent time in cyberspace talking to your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  . Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final ... covered in 6.UAT: in particular, I think it’s worth your time to listen to ... ’m excited for our seven new bloggers to start blogging soon (immediately, to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  direction, I would have to continue going to boring meetings surrounded by ... (and free food), but I don’t try to get involved with them at any deeper ... —it’s possible to want to cultivate your professional prospects while still being

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly ... don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the case, for me anyway), that 68 is the only building on main campus to run

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  at MIT...and surrounded by my friends. I attribute this to general ... responses of your friends vary, and it's fun to discuss different answers when ... introspection. One example, "to what do you attribute to your success," generated

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  nonstrategic in your own essays, and not try to get into our (or anyone else ... way in which you have contributed to your community, whether in your ... , our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Night I Shared A Stage With Marilee Photos of a star, by a Star.

  

  Thanks to Star Simpson (MIT '10) for these fantastic photos! Sorry it took so long for me to get them on the site. New entry coming soon - but enjoy these in the meantime. :-) Also for your enjoyment: cannon shirts

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2006