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• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  international applicants, and I want all of you and your counselors to understand ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  parts to get assembled. On the day of our assembly, we slugged boxes of ... your materials lie on"]Laser Bed,[/annotation] in order to minimize ... ="going to therapy"]soul searching.[/annotation] I ate toast with peanut butter

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  18.701 to 701, I keep thinking you’re talking about biology ... escape the trivial. 8/10 epsilon Example: “It’s getting warm, I’m going to ... away you are from a radio station, the more your signal-to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  ecstatic to hear, "Your Epidural is in." Upon seeing Miles for the first time ... encounters with your younger or older sibling. Yes, I really want to hear about all of the not-so-nice things that you did to your kid sister or brother

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  something else of interest to your interview. This is not a requirement or an ... counselors). If you love to play the violin, play the violin - even if your many of your classmates do as well. You don't need to take up the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  sometimes I get to unleash it. The professor makes sure to highlight the ... have all semester to CAD our designs, CNC molds for them, injection mold ... iteration. I met with my team this weekend to finalize our design: the moon

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  products come from, how products get from A to Z, and really the muddiness of ... This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to media studies to English, and as a result, I've had to consume a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  me to be better (and helped me grow to get there), doing work I thought ... wanted to put in this blog post for some time. The problem is that talking ... this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  get to places. I'm also pretty excited to see all the places I never got ... . How You Can Get Involved As of now, the server is restricted to the MIT ... [email protected] if you'd like to connect, be involved, or get permissions.  

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  ) and we walked through a narrow corridor to get to Clam, from where we ... MIT. I held fun, but brief, conversations with Mariia trying to get to ... Cat Zella and having her wildly run around kitchen to get rid of her

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  world of GIRs my freshman fall, I saw them as obstacles. I had to get ... I can`t wait to start writing more about life at MIT, but since I ... I saw this book that promised to inspire me, to reignite my passion

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  be, hanging on to memories of your senior prom and of the countless ... , you're being welcomed to campus and everything is looking up. You're on ... during your adolescence to evade will probably become your very best

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that you have to stop and lose that heat and start all over. But then, when I set my alarm for seven am yesterday and stumbled up to snooze it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  doing all he could to get her to eat the thing burning in his hands, which ... free to share your creations with me, I’d love to hear about your takes ... ] Bring the cocotte to the table and add your choice of spirit (brown

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  finger as crowds amassed on the sidelines to see what the commotion was about. But instead of a police presence, and maybe a trip to MIT Mental ... feeling rising in my mind that I've forgotten how to put in words. Fu

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  you're here! There's way too much stuff to do, and it's not a true MIT ... , and I would love to meet you, so please come visit while you’re here! I ... The Gray House, where MIT’s president lives. what other dorm gets to see

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  ’t. Once you get to the upper floors, A, B, and C towers are all separated ... MIT Logo on it. Next to my birthday cake were two robotic arms (the ones that Iron Man talks to in his workshop), which I assembled (from

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  , it will take me a while to dig through my mental archive to remember ... 'll form the relevant neural pathways to be able to readily recall this ... to register for this course as a way of returning to my roots. So far

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  enough time to get my fill of goofing around before the hell of spring ... . And though I had no idea where to host my event, or where to get the ... I’m no cook when it comes to normal food, but if stupid ideas were

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  getting used to, four years on the job. For every publication I design that gets sent to press and mailed to thousands of prospective students, there ... , so I’ll have to look into getting these printed and shipped to campus

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020