Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  weird. I liked it a lot because it stood out in its rejection of the ... now, ruefully, a bit more Common. My essays were perfect. I knew I would ... , made a checklist. We visited both universities, again. The schools were

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  27 Dresses and Empire Strikes Back; the night before that, A New Hope ... the front desk, and so the Burton-Conner deskworkers think I'm a little ... have them take a look at me. Being sick in college is not fun, no matter

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  second summer in Cambridge. Two years ago, when I was a rising high ... . Specifically, a class on medieval prayer books. Why? Well, for one thing, I ... something a little more humanities-oriented. And perhaps even more importantly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before ... , I've had a great time in Simmons this past year (and there are more than a few Greek guys who choose to live in the dorms - like Alan '09

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  'm a little cheesy sometimes - what else is new? Luckily, I have about ... draws ever closer, I can't believe that it's already been a year since I ... here is not a right, but a privilege - I might even go so far as to call

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

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  myself *points at the banner* (perhaps bringing a stuffed penguin with me next CPW would help? =p) and apparently I look a lot taller. 10. "Wow, you don't sound like a college professor in real life!" I'm sure now

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  I am RIDICULOUSLY hosed this week (three exams, a problem set, a lab report, a t-shirt design, a poster design, a UROP proposal, an EMS elections meeting, an overnight shift, a trip to New York, another exam

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  while, I'll try to do a recap of last term, which was fantastic, but unbelievably hosing. This particular post, though, is about a particularly well-known class around the Institvte. As many of you know, 6.001 was a class

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  MIT isn’t a political campus. Sure, it had its moments during the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members ... documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. As a matter ... to MIT can be a barrier for those of modest financial means or those ... only covers a small percentage of the costs associated with processing

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non ... takes advantage of. For example, you can borrow a laptop, read MIT Alumni ... (and by extension, you) is paying a gazillion dollars to have a top

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 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 ... finally, a sorry to those of you who thought I would be taller or more buff ... I want 5 MORE YEARS. By the time I graduate, I will have spent a third

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  I got this postcard from my dad a few weeks ago. It's funny how when ... lives back up where they left off. Next up - my mom goes on a mission to ... a research program I made a three-page quote list that included such

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  live in squalor." My heart beat a little bit faster as everyone else ... Squalor was, and why it was so funny. Zach gladly obliged and showed me a website which not only devised a method of quantifying squalor, but strove

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  tuning in, there is a reason that my blog consists mostly of me standing in ... of "Bring a flash drive to Italy, then we can go to internet cafes and ... usually use. So don't look at the rest of the entry if you're on a dialup

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  deal with righty desks before, so if you see me beating a chair to ... school (which is a phrase that makes me sound like I'm 64 and recounting my cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  also describes Liechtenstein thusly: "Mountainous, it is a winter sports resort, though it is perhaps best-known as a tax haven." Poor Liechtenstein ... among TBP members. Now, I have not always wanted to go to a Boston Celtics

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... wanted to go to college, and I had a few ideas of where I wanted to apply ... class, you were guaranteed admission to a state school, so I figured

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water ... 'm doing right now is writing a blog entry. I'm doing that because I went to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a ... get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to ... ... with Pine I can go through spam in like a third of the time of webmail

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005