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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  are as a person and a student. Applicants are expected to contact their ... around the corner. While I hate to distract you from the application, essays, standardized tests and teacher recommendation letters (not to

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  % to 10%, with a mean and median of ~5%. What are the realities here? I ... are some things you should not do: Fly to campus to make the case in ... making a deposit. After May 1, when all students have sent their replies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to ... - nor under-pronate. Maybe this explains why I'm able to power-walk a 7 ... running shorts to make trying out the new shoes easier. I thought I would

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  as a sophomore, and was the only girl in my class to make our school ... class to make all eight plays and musicals held during my four years in ... conveniently located next to the floor closet. And Carenina '03, a senior

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  friend of a friend’s place, surrounded by students from BU. We set to ... to work on my own than has ever [annotation note="I make efforts to not ... ’t matter now.  I spent a good portion of time trying to find the perfect

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  ...cuddling with his laptop. I'm not kidding. Okay, now I'm going to make a huge jump to what might appear to be a TOTALLY different subject, but it ... there anyway I can make a random donation of like $4.17 to the financial

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  , way to make an insulting, totally useless reply to the entire dorm ... study schedule to make sure that the portion of summer residents who watch ... was an MIT student who didn't have quite enough credits to graduate

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  , so these types of games are always a lot of fun to play in.  Best ... has been stuck on campus with conference games. So to make our own fun, we rented out an airbnb in Maine to spend a weekend together. I have

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  at making a smoothie, since I had access to a blender and had never ... 'm also trying to be a little more conscious about the food I intake, trying ... I tend to enjoy baking a bit more than I do cooking. Sunday I decided

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... anthropology class teacher asked us to say our name and a small story related to our name, and my [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms, a class that is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird ... . BIZARRE THINGS - AN OVERVIEW Bizarreness from 1 (a little peculiar) to 10 ... . Thursday Nov 1: I learned from Alan Guth that “you don’t have to have a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  prior. As my granddaddy used to say: To make a short story long, this ... Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three ... weekend to be exact - I sat in a dining room table in the East Flatbush

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  you and figure out a way to make sure we get your application and ... , and civil unrest around the globe, just to name a few. This is, alas ... everyone here wants to make sure our application process is as fair as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  I don't usually see students on a day-to-day basis.) Anyway, I ... material snot really is. Fast forward a few years, and I'm making educational ... therapeutic nanoparticles have a hard time penetrating the layers to get to the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  , "life after college" is a scary but also exciting topic to think about ... still a whole life of decisions to be made. It could be graduate school ... , comparative literature. Is there a perfect post-undergrad plan that makes the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  guess it's called a "Quiz," but they just call it that to lure us into a ... only have three (well, two tests and a final) so I don't have to take ... 'd like to predict what a future blog entry may be about (specifically, the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  a rising junior computer science major with the luck to have a good ... whatever shortlist of people were invited back to a de-densified campus. i ... waffled between taking a leave of absence to try to "get back" an extra

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  ."] completing various errands [/annotation]. i've never been to LA, so i formed a ... a crosswalk to go over to where it was waiting, and had to backtrack ... there always seems to be a nice breeze coming from somewhere.i love being

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together ... other intermittent meals. ...baked, I wanted to give baking a shot, too

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019