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• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly ... emails. Just to see what happens. Learn to cook. Even if you're on a ... . Master all the steps to the Cupid Shuffle. You'll be a hit at prom. Go

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  , leading to a lot of frosh from warm climates making exclamations like "OMG ... have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go ... with a friend and her roommate to celebrate her birthday. It was cold and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  observe and absorb my and your experiences and fun to compile a project that ... WATER WAR! Pick a dorm. Pledge your loyalty to it. Construct weapons ... -American status, but don't want to seem like a braggart? Come write it on our

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  time due to mental health issues, but I’m thriving, and I’m a health ... incurable diagnosis is terrifying to discover. But what a relief to know that ... combination feels right, I make the beading pattern a reality. And the rest of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  trying to invent a different way to make the helium blimps they saw race ... even faster - as they had decided to make a 'robotic' arm from their ... , you have my permission to put down your AP study books and take a look

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  more than a spattering of sawdust. So these were the events leading up to ... consecutive days now and the noise is making it impossible to sleep as I live on ... . 24 hours pass. One day after my noise complaint. I wake up to a small

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  sake, but only to the extent that they help us make better decisions for ... students and our own admissions criteria to ensure we make good decisions for ... to COVID-19. As stated in our Making Caring Common pledge — and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  ,000 calories :D but makes for a good bonding ritual followed by heartburn :P) I ... say. But first, listen to this important message from Dan Gilbert, a ... control. As Dan's story shows, some things that seem bad turn out to be a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  's story as a complete picture - each factor affects each other factor to ... to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the ... now and would really like to send a recording to MIT. Unfortunately

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  choice to make, which I’ll talk about a little bit later. On campus, I got ... introduce you to a couple of them here. Enjoy! Quynh Nguyen '15    Hello ... be a lesson to all of you – use your Google calendars!) and thus missed

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  planning to write a little feature about MIT mailing lists in the near future ... ? That's really short! I haven't had a chance to contact the coach yet." I ... convinced me to join. I had a great time (go team 30!) but a whole list of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  more aware. Professor Levine has crafted a curriculum to make us more ... , but rather tweak the tone and structure to make it have a more powerful ... coach, Dave Hunter, attempts to motivate us for the next period using a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  'll get to experience a small slice of life at MIT to help make your ... already visited overnight. You'll get to stay with a student, or a house ... opposite perspective - they're worried about going to a tech school because

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to ... of imagery and symbolism, it makes for a good conversation piece, and after a while, you even start to identify with it. When I told my dad how

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  Olympic team, and he gossips about them to me). D-Entry is having a "Bacon ... 'easter to liven up a winter weekend. Questions: 1. Jay asked, "Hey Mollie ... summers ago to develop a certain kind of airplane on his own. But most of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  education makes you a better doctor down the road, when you need to consider ... working with a delightful grad student on some experiments/learning to make ... On Monday, I got to see a pacemaker insertion surgery, eat lunch in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  discovered we have a trash chute. I took my dinner up to my room just so I ... at the end of the hall. I even tried to make more trash just so I could ... don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a prep course, you can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  finals. Ruth '07, Mitra '07 and I '07 tried to make that a little more ... to say, was a little wistful. Like how Tim Gunn cries at the end of ... because I didn't go to CPW or do any pre-orientation programs (let that be a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  exercise our creative muscles a bit and it came up that we both like to write ... prompt, because, like, life, but I did make it through a lot of them. When ... year round, but I will try to write a bit more in the future, I think

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• 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 admission are. We couldn't do that without a thorough review of an entire