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• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... study all the time. Maybe your friends are all going to school X and want you to go there, too. Or maybe, you just don’t think you’re smart enough

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  , finish your Gauss’ Law pset, attend an info session, apply to those 2 job ... dining etiquette. K: the typed affirmation you get when you and your friend have planned an awesome get-together. You’re getting burgers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  The bloggers' old avatars were drawn by a talented professional in a ... worse job? Wouldn't that be better? Today, I am proud to introduce to you a new, anti-cohesive style for the MIT Admissions blogs. We

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  break I'm going to get to know my new camera better! I've started using it ... It’s spring break! Time for students to stop frantically trying to finish psets and start less-frantically trying to take care of all the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted An open thread for admitted students.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2011! Feel free to use this post's comments space to introduce yourselves to your future classmates. (Later this week, look for new stuff on your MyMIT portal)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted!

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2010! Feel free to use this post's comments space to introduce yourselves to your future classmates, and Early Action admits, welcome your new classmates...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted Posting for admitted students.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2010! Feel free to use this post's comments space to introduce yourselves to your future classmates (and, later this week, look for new stuff on your MyMIT portal).

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  , they will get your letter in to us. And we are much more flexible with ... your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better ... one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  to skim, if you're into that). Location: East Campus Although ... .[/annotation]although i should be trying to get back to sleep, instead i start thinking about all the stuff i have to do to get ready to leave for the summer. as

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  code, hours of pulling my hair out at office hours, just trying to get ... Velodyne LiDAR Puck and ZED Stereo Cameras. By the end of the semester, you’re ... brain switches to a new task, however menial, it takes a certain amount of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  mode they are traveling by, and what route they are taking to get there ... on in the world, only able to scan the New York Times every couple of ... to live in a house with a yard, and utilities, and your own kitchen

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  – even if I don’t follow every single tip I hear, it helps to hear new ways ... my mind to it and get my shit together. It’s now November, and I ... by month long breaks while I get distracted with other things. Thinking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  like a simple question but it can get harder to answer over time because ... think I want and what the world seems to want from me:  Wanting by Luke ... chance to walk through campus, down the infinite, with my 9-month old baby

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  . Basically, in a ploy to get people carry around their new 3DS systems ... explain. A third set features new to the 3DS are its augmented reality (AR ... * "Sweet, we'll get each other then!" It was an awesome start to my day. I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  nation by Newsweek. It's very hard to get into (but since my dad works ... your dad works -- would it be nice to get to see him frequently, or would ... forward to stopping by your office sometime in the fall. P.S. You wouldn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my fellow '12s in an effort to get to know them better") Matt's entry to see ... normal routine. And mine definitely has been. To prove it, here's a play-by

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  applying to, you can also get in touch with your direct regional ... which our applicants are coming from; we want to know the context of your ... know in other places on the application and use your essays to write

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  . When the cultural houses moved to New House and non-Russian speakers moved in, the new residents decided to dub themselves English House and ... answers to some of the more general ones that might get asked again: Kate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  pack. I put on Taylor Swift and by chance the first lyric to the first ... , then your phone is gonna crash. Oops. So I've been using the break to ... different academically; you're still figuring everything out; you have to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  into consideration (and you're not going to get a part if you really can ... : "But what about going to college and trying new things? Also, Hack Punt ... during-the-semester musical to be fun." Me: "Yeah, you're right. I won

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012