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  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  simply getting into a college; your goal should be to graduate. And quite ... all things you can get a feel for by just looking around during your ... other aspects of our office. As a counselor on the Visit Team, I get to

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  , but also in the knowledge tested on exams.  You can't expect to skate by ... ways of thinking. Your desire to skip classes increases exponentially ... the initiative. Don't be afraid to change your mind. It's great to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  need to, which is sometimes often. "Poem 133: The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver - the "Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and ... 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds" by Shakespeare "Autumn

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  , surrounded by soggy tourists. I don’t think I could get used to that forever ... ’m looking at.  I went to the school’s website and looked into the ... science.  And honestly? My instincts were correct. I was able to get a pulse

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  both of his passions. Jugal found his UROP by searching the websites of ... Education (INIE) program. Getting to work in MIT-NRL is an amazing opportunity ... . His advice is to "take your passion and follow through with it to the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• 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 / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  roll over "wienerschnitzel" on the new Flash-enabled MISTI website or ... 't get to go around Europe hearing about people's awesome jobs and taking ... , that way you won't get screwed by airport exchange rates" plan. So I have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007