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• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  rejecting and get some free food. You're not expected to switch dorms, but at ... assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of ... school both improves your odds of getting into MIT and will help you make
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  ." Today, 3/4, is unofficially national marching band day. Get it? Anyway, to ... or other, so I probably won't get a chance to do it tonight. Anyway ... until I get a chance to get all the pictures together, here's a poem I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  designed to help the admissions committee get to know you as a full person ... to you? Does the work in your portfolio help us better understand ... MIT? If the answer to these questions is yes, then your work

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  desire to rock out, so we get 6 units of credit per term - just to bang on ... hours early to get ready, try out the acoustics in our new digs, and get ... -raising ability (read: badassness) to get more people to come to the show. One of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  strategy so you never want to visit their website or see their logo ever ... taking an extra class. now i am doing better--i get to spend time with ... set over the charles, walk alone without fear. i get to do things i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  accepted or not. But every time I get to thinking this way, EVERY single ... . Remember all that is important to you—what you like doing, what your values ... goin’ gets rough, you should suddenly hear a wonderful voice in your mind

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you won't notice any change to your MyMIT account until we're confident that everyone has had a chance to receive his/her decision via mail (or telephone

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  something else (use it as leverage to get a smartphone from your parents: "mom ... would be a class about manipulating time to your whim through various ... you go to schedule your week you don't have to try and remember all the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  lead to better robots for everyone. Plus, these are your peers, who you ... in 2.007 (in my opinion) is a document called "How To Build Your ... guaranteed spot on the final day of competition, and get to relax and watch the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  off the class as you get to invite your friends and family to listen to ... universities will offer lab courses in addition to your introductory Physics ... to Physics majors, it's not a strict major requirement unless you’re an

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  from the archives related to this decision, the one you're nominally in ... by it: follow your heart, as cheesy as it sounds. When it comes to some ... that you are confident in your decision and prepared to give yourself to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  up, move the fruit around with a utensil to get some air and space to ... open the food processor. You move the fruit around with a utensil to get ... . All of this to say, even when it seems like your processor is full of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  get more green-blue clothes but i somehow never find the time to go ... that you're not committed enough to changing yourself. i don't think that's true. you're really earnest about wanting to be better, whatever "better

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  your sweet bottom that I'll do my best to get her back here ... pleasure getting to know each of you this year. You are amazing, talented ... here at MIT. If you're here in the fall, drop by 3-107 and say hi to us

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  yourself without remembering that you're distracting yourself to forget the thing you're trying to forget (but failing, because now you've remembered ... emails, phone calls, and blog comments, to say nothing of spillovers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  . We all get to see MIT through your eyes as the wonderful, bizzarre, and ... ! Remember that, and try not to travel on your own. There are no cliques during ... + textbook store), it feels a lot better to get a custom MIT t-shirt for free

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  you're going to get another fair shot. Bloggers who were deferred and ... to your application. You may not rewrite your essays, redo your ... because we want to reconsider your application (the one you have already

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  summer. I wanted to spend time with my family, and I needed to get off ... open yourself to opportunities. Important tips for bluffing your way ... overwhelming; it can be even worse if you’re a sophomore who actually needs to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  ways at MIT where you can get help if you want to. Office hours (an hour ... problem, it was easy to get help if I needed it. We don't have office hours ... with a graduate student to review your assigned work. While I did enjoy

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014