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• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  ) that Shaw's gives a discount to MIT students: you get 5% off with your ID ... project, and get your name on a paper, then it will almost certainly have to ... else) You're free to eat at any dining hall: the meal plans are not dorm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  to get emails saying I helped your admissions process. Thanks again for ... 's INCREDIBLE have all your support! Voting's open until the 28th, so be sure to ... have worked equally hard to get this far, and I'd love it if you could

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  , I'm getting a little old, but it's cool. It's really crazy awesome to ... that it is both fun and worthwhile to get to know the people that you ... get my degree and get out. I also wanted to learn how to make cool

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  great idea, because that way you can get your MIT ID card, which has your ... finally managed to get to the point where the wireless card detected a ... I ask for?! P.S. One last tip for frosh- make sure to pick up your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  test yesterday and I had to learn like ein bazillion words for that, and ... another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed ... you to be strategically nonstrategic in your own essays, and not try to get into our (or anyone else's) headspace for your essays. Here are a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  juggling act feels. I also remember wondering how on earth I was going to get ... probably isn't going to kill you. If all goes according to plan, your senior ... handle, especially if you're applying to MIT. But you're not alone, and you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  about you to maximize your experience when you come here. For example, my ... we are so excited to see your faces in just two days! All of this ... instead of only one weekend. But try your best to go to CPW or to at least

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  mile from my fraternity house (according to GoogleMaps), I got here by a ... around downtown Boston to do a little shopping (which had the added benefit ... down Boylston towards Skullhouse. All was going well - I was nearly to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  if you're closed off. If you need to get a job, find something that ... half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it ... 't get caught. Life is too short to stick with a course of study that you're

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  MIT application essay. I figure it's getting to be around crunch time for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your ... get good schooling. I will go to college for six years, get my Master

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

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  to live a year longer. if i could recruit other people, get them to run for officership, get them to see my vision, maybe it'd last a few more ... want me to succeed, because of course your professor wants you to pass

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  world. If you're hosting an event on campus, you can get hundreds of ... talk into the benches. You can also try getting a friend, putting your ... vials to run tonight sometime so I can get some data that I need to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  ) and the end-of-season fencing banquet. Here are some thoughts if you’re ... Institute of Technology (MIT) students gather to receive small chunks of ... of emotions leads individuals to document their experience in odd ways

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  ) [click on the image to watch ZigZag] If you like ZigZag and would like to get it automatically in your iTunes, you can subscribe to the i ... Orientation Activities Midway; I loved getting to talk to students and hear all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  "How do I get to New Amsterdam?" "Just follow that road and don't be ... stifling. We just couldn't wait to get out of the place. (13) Enjoy! ... The return of the puzzles. Try your hand at this one. An entry about

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  new admits in the ATL Be sure to check the listing on your My ... I hope you’re all getting excited for Campus Preview Weekend ... ’re excited to meet other new MIT admits so we want to let you know about some

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  people tend to make great teams.  These are the people I get super excited ... deeper into the science of what you're working with in order to better inform your design. The second part, creativity, is harder to define.  It

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  get relative to my peers onto whether or not I'm taking full advantage ... start-up. As part of my Course 15 (management) curriculum, I get to take ... . Seriously, look at this syllabus. I was able to get into the class when an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  could get used to the water temperature before going out further and ... assignments, have to keep moving and doing things. Relax for a day, and you’re ... campus is that I get a lot of time to think for myself. So I have these

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021