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• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  experiences applying to college will enable you to see your own experiences this ... , to name a few - but if you're at all drawn to MIT, odds are you ... about the things in your life that are cool and unique. Don't be afraid to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have ... that prospective students can review to help determine if MIT is the
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  mail day of the early action season, so I encourage you to get your ... travel season, we'll prepare to read your applications. I suspect we ... your teachers that are writing your evaluations, and be sure to thank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  class than it is after getting a full 8 hours of sleep. Your body has ... you’re working it’s a lot more difficult to start an assignment than it is to continue working on it when your pen has already started moving

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  still manage to get into accidents pretty much every day because of the ... to pass someone who is driving in your own passing lane (which is ... I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  slave to my Google Calendar? I'm always running to the next place on my ... free to close this tab or even turn off your computer and go take a walk ... Music to complement this post Tweet to complement this post Post

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  -traffic websites to making efficient data management structures. Yet, they represent ... ,3,9,15,...) and told you to find their sum, you might store all the numbers in ... you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  . Excited to get fitted for my dentures. Anyway, I'm still hosed, and I have a ... victim). Happy pi day! Brought to you by your social chairs + eva + anna ... (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  this information off the website. So if you want to know more, you should ... , though, is because I won the raffle :0 I guess as an incentive to get people to show up (or perhaps to get people to shut up, and actually listen

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Believe It, Then Don ... While I'm working on a longer post, I wanted to write a quick post ... window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  , and what not to expect. Your host: A team of admissions staff and MIT ... of freedom for you to explore on your own. You may want to talk with ... to what extent you're looking to explore on your own. Like online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  from how to get an interview to how to succeed once you're there. Learn ... inquires, "How's your wife/husband?" The other responds, "Relative to what ... (all years encouraged to attend!) If you are a sophomore, come meet your

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  Last week, I was lucky enough to get to see something very unique ... , helping everyone in the Cambridge area get their data where it needs to be ... to make a donation to help them preserve this space, or want to get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  , are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today, 300 companies are on campus trying to recruit MIT students to come work for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  : Economics) and I met there on Friday night to hear Jewel perform a free ... , because some commuters had trains to catch, but most of us. 2. On ... found this bookstore before I left MIT. In addition to a large fiction

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Anatomy of a Late Night There are some problems caffeine can't solve. But only a few.

  

  2 liters of Mountain Dew: $2.75 Mint Milanos: $3.39 Artichoke Spinach Hummus: $2.99 Wheat Thins: $2.29 Getting all your work done... priceless And now, I sleep, perchance to dream...

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t Dump I got stopped by the police.

  

  Awesome title, right? In short, my Friday involved graffiti, press conferences, and getting stopped by the police. Just one photo to whet your pallet. A series of updates on Orientation and the start of Rush are long

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  flexible about things, as classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 ... coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  also don’t get to randomly see students I know in the hall. I also miss ... occasion when I get to a story that has special significance to me. I believe ... well share my advice here for those who won’t get to hear it in the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  Who knows what course 6.270 is without having to look it up? Anybody ... "HappyBoard." ($1,500 worth of LEGOs, sensors, and HappyBoard). To avoid ... given all of our supplies and an objective. We then had a month to build

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008