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• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  the hole as a result of our EFC, but my entire family has had to make ... decided that, since I was making more money, I could help a little more to ... know a couple of his professors fairly well by going to talk to them

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  boulders out of the woods to make a 32' x 26' perimeter. On the Monday ... -9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week ... form by May 1 (postmark date) if you intend to enroll at MIT. How much

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  classes to plan what you want to take each semester. Pictures make more ... . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a ... ... … which, due to a bug in the system, wasn’t actually mine at all, but

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  decided to make use of my aloneness by putting Hell Above on full blast ... that really captured my attention as a naive 5 year old. 6th Grade to 8 ... listened to a lot during this phase: Sugar High - Approaching Nirvana

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  , painting a galaxy mural, and rearranging furniture to make the room more spacious. i then set up a ton of LED lights and pictures to make it feel more ... makes a huge difference. finding how to sustain myself while living in EC

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  to those with a “stronger” profile, which would make the very possible ... listen to your essay being read aloud, either by a computer or a friend, to ... conducting mine. It was really easy to get a new EC. I just had to make a phone

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  be), but it makes things a little smoother when you know what to say ... only need a few ingredients to make mega bubbles. Unfortunately, these ... Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  . She makes a point of ordering an large pepperoni pizza to take home with ... had dressed in full zombie regalia as a tribute to "Army of Darkness ... Campbell is? Like, 50? And then what subset of those 50 want to get a book

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and ... yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the ... like a simple question but it can get harder to answer over time because

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  shipping expense. Just bring enough stuff for a few days to hold you over ... assignment. Dorm lighting tends to disappoint. Invest in a desk light or even ... finished that essay at 3AM. Some people find a wall-mounted whiteboard to be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  where nothing makes sense, and to this day I am inspired by his dedication ... a particularly good entry, they happen to deviate from their work and ... will inevitably follow, from denial - searching for a clipboard log - to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  of Me Song: Past Life, by Jules Paymer There are a lot of parts to me ... . Fact: Learning is a process, not a competition, and I’m excited to be ... way that I related to quite a bit: she personified imposter syndrome as

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  't find much, decides to make things juicy by adding "College ... anything to say, so I'm going to do a google search, find some misconception ... just now realized that what can start as a simple guess as to an

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  !). I ate way too much food and tried to tone down my age a bit by putting ... fact make it through the four episodes we had left by then whilst ... of her friends, and their kids (which turned out to be a surprising

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  are a few things to think about as you visit colleges before making your ... surreptitiously jump out of my lofted bed trying to land with a gymnast's dismount ... had a $30 payout, I decided to be a high-roller and take a cab to the

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please ... time to follow up on that and make sure we have it as soon as possible ... documents to the financial aid office by February 15. I haven't forgotten

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what ... Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then ... storage unit delivered to the dorm easily beat a stressful, last-minute rush

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  intuition to make a difficult choice in the past? Has peer pressure made you make a decision you later regretted? Share your stories by: commenting ... The following is a guest post by Jorge T. '18.   The Power

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  , right? Also, true to form, I have returned bringing you something of a ... ?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the ... school students can learn less than or equal to /almost/ anything. It's a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  most we take on here at MIT, it's a easy one to solve. As many of you ... they need to know about our admissions process. I'm a talent scout, more ... focus on these cohorts, my overall mission is still to make MITAdmissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014