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  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  brewing and we had a week to get off campus. It took a late night packing party, fueled with fruit roll ups and Costco brownies, to get through that ... left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left

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

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  to October...) and building gliders for it. Running away from getting ... .  (4) She had to retaliate against getting cake smeared on hers. > ... in Boston for the summer is a very, very good idea. I got to get to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  asking others for advice. It got to the point where I nearly had my writing ... cause me to be instantly rejected from MIT, I calmed down slightly, went ... , impatient for decisions, reluctant to do my other apps, doubtful of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  updates The deadline to schedule your interview if you are applying for ... will be applying to MIT, I recommend you go ahead and have your interview ... January test, you must list MIT as a school to receive your scores. And, of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  MIT welcomes a small group of exceptional transfer students each year. Successful transfer students come to MIT from many backgrounds: community ... coursework, as well as co- and extra-curricular opportunities in your areas of
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  getting to know more people -- not just my podmates, who are lovely, but ... /no record, so I could afford to get a bad grade. Wow grades are scary ... there is much to be said for learning lab safety first, and then getting

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  's biggest telescopes: Other perks of working at JPL: getting to meet Mohawk ... to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and ... directly led to my job at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory this summer, too

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  got a chance to really sit down and get to know each other; I learned ... really lovely getting to share that experience with the visiting students ... community. Having this time to get to know one of the students on a more

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  . Plan to partition your room evenly if you have a roommate. If you take a ... compiled a packing list for students here, to be used with caution. Some things I’ve found helpful. Pack: -- a memento for your shelf or wall

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... sequel to 801), WGS.151 Gender, Health, and Society, and WGS.229 Race ... . Junior fall, I wanted to take a Harvard class. Philosophy of Education

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  ’t get off at MIT. I love living in a city, and I love being able to ... traveled to Chengdu, China, and eventually more and more cities, I got to see ... about the minimum number of T stops you’d need to pass in order to go to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  -dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States ... getting the chance to learn more about how other female engineers dealt with ... " focused more on how to get involved in the Linux community and less on how

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  encouraged by the quality of the deferred applicants that we will get to ... deferred to regular action, and which students will be denied during this stage.In parallel, we are preparing to mail out decisions. All decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in our work before we retreat to selection committee tomorrow. (Don't get ... to become 100% about getting into college, which is wrong, wrong, wrong

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  ones I didn't get to reach. After Nicole and I finished our eightieth ... After my kickboxing class today I ran to the Bush Room and just finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an ... have spring break a week or two earlier, meaning we don't get to see many ... . Hopefully it'll get warm enough to walk along the beaches at least! Before

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  have contributed to your community, whether in your family, the classroom ... 't regret it. If you're applying to college this year, my best advice is to ... process is an opportunity to reflect upon the last several years of your

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  An (overdue) blogger update! I'm trying to come out of writer's block lol

  

  years of being an undergrad. I just couldn't get myself to write as much ... MIT student to talk about my life. Don’t get me wrong, this was a time ... ="Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, where undergrads get to be involved in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  time we also just go get food together or go to the movies, but all in ... . However, on Saturday I felt that I had enough time to both get some psets ... exam I would have to hop on getting the psets that I had fallen behind on

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016