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• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  ), you'll talk to your fellow students and find that their acceptances and ... ?) So if you come to MIT next year or in the next few years, your TA might ... shook my hand and said (I am not even making this up), "I saw in your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  -diagnosing depression this WHOLE TIME, and you're telling me i've actually been going to ... i've given up on interests and hobbies that used to make me happy. i ... 's okay. things don't have to make me happy forever and maybe they'll make

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• 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…

  

  it makes you want to eat your own hand, a little? (I'll accept Lady ... tired and struggling to keep your eyes open and your focus on this pset ... 10. (I guess when you're the president, you get to ask people to take

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  greatest pleasure to introduce to you, in my role as[annotation note="this basically means it is my job to be enthusiastic and helpful at everyone and ... completed applications (and 60 people started an app, but decided not to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  takes your hand and dances. You'd get to come along on my adventures. The ... has been quite a difficult one and I haven't really had the headspace to write. I'm hoping to come back soon, but, in the meantime, please accept

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  have goals in life. I never really got around to making any before I came ... hang dry some things. Stop Leaving Lectures Confused. Edit: Go to Your ... to hold your hand through multiple examples. If you don't know that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  , I have no idea who you are or what you’re like, but I’m here to ... teachers, my friends, and my mentors all contributed to make me who I am ... Anioke) to make a Lego robot.  Behold Wall-E’s ancestor!! After FPOP

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  's, like, facebook-official dude!), which makes me enormously happy because (a) they're pretty much the same person so their banter is fun to watch ... revealed.) So the three of us had lunch today. Allow me to share an example

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  then makes you want to beat your head against the wall. The Pythagorean ... Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be flooded with eager beavers that want to eat free food, stay up late, and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  Last semester was pretty rough, and I vowed to make this semester ... , but it is better exactly and only to do what makes you happier -- with ... yet, a child who is spoken to twice as much as another child will make

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  numbers into an equation, and then typing it out to make it look nice ... variables, and also got to see what it's like to watch the sun rise while you're ... As the semester begins to wind down, it comes time to turn in

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your ... sample" each year to make sure our writing skills were progressing ... prompt for this essay was to write a letter to your mother. Now, I'm not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  , I have been making time to do some awesome things at night :) I ... with a graduate student to review your assigned work. While I did enjoy ... are too many people to be able to ask all your questions. On another

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  process of applying to your institution. I just you to tell me about your ... make a good application. Awaiting your response the soonest! You're from ... When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  brings the world to your doorstep. You can meet a lot of new people, try ... , cultures, and so many other things as well, so we wanted to capture small vignettes of this to communicate how diverse this campus truly is. I'll spare

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  asleep before I make it back to baker. Will return your genes later tonight ... going? me: Back to the house… to study…. Them: False. You’re coming with ... too? I would like to make some cdna… you can be my virus lol me: I’ll do

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  't have to listen to how embarrassing I sound? Well, I'm trying to make a ... wrangle with six different tracks in Audacity to make this. But so what? I ... sometimes, you don't have to be better at what you're doing. You can sing, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  . But to each his own! Whatever floats your boat! Insert other clichés ... much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one ... official close. I didn’t even have time to make it Karaoke Night with ATS

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  classes but lots of fun, aka that thing you constantly talk about with your friends back home to make them jealous.  Here's a quick recap of what I've been up to this past week, divided completely arbitrarily into three

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  classes, they count for little to nothing in your final course grade. You ... notorious for taking some people more than 10+ hours to do). If you're ... psets, then it's almost guaranteed that you're not going to do spectacular

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008