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  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  you can’t do this. But you can do this, and a team of people think so ... grounding, now. You know what you need to do. There’s a line I say at this ... to a place enough times, all your visits start to blur together. This

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  what are you up to? Gaurab: I’m a junior at MIT majoring in EECS. I do ... of my work at MIT. Each year, we welcome a small group of transfer ... , public, and international universities. Some took a so-called “non

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Class Supper titled “The Pin” with the tagline “I do not set my life at a ... after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from a total of 984 students were international. Three times more students

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just ... , but that each and every applicant has been given a lifetime's worth of ... travelled as we do on the heights achieved. I think our admission decisions

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you ... was much, much stronger than any of us anticipated, and watched as a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  when we make or interpret a statement? When do words get confused with ... MIT's history is a topic that's become increasingly interesting to me ... 's a single historical source where you can read about these kinds of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... Salvador Luria Ivan Getting '33 was a primer developer of GPS Bose Corporation, founded by MIT Professor Amar Bose Ellen Swallow Richards, a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... make it work again, or do something new and useful, is a badge of honor ... some extent, to my parents, it's like I'm talking a foreign language

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  answer review questions for a paper before my 1 PM 9.12 lecture. Because I ... sixteen when I discovered a very large, very live spider challenging me to a ... basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Ben Jones' famous "It's More Than A Job" post from March 2006. I've read ... heartfelt. A few weeks ago, I had an epiphany of sorts. I finally experienced ... out with friends). When mixing and producing albums for my a cappella

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... for the early waking. There was a snowstorm. There was the walk up ... start a jar of lacto-fermented sauerkraut. In Italy, in an overcast

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  Danny Ben-David ’15 is a physics major, East Campus historian, and creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a La ... him on 4th West last semester while tooling on a 6.046 p-set. This is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  forget about all the homework I have to do, and for a moment, it'd feel ... could give you a laundry list of fun facts. We can do all the icebreakers ... taken a class there. Here's something I want to do. We'll go to a random

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus. Buildings in main campus do not have a letter in front and just ... I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before ... like. It’s mostly a long strip: There’s west campus on the west, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then ... them to. Poetry, prose. Prose, poetry. Sometimes I think there's not a ... wrote a fair bit in high school. Poetry, mostly, with the occasional short

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  'd leave it up to a vote to decide where she went. He put up an online poll ... of the funniest things ever. I lol'd and lol'd, and then Melis wrote a ... forward a couple of years. Here's what happened this time. An e-mail got

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change ... , not a norm or expectation. 48 units is an appropriate load for most ... students with a full year of credits (96 units) at the end of first-year fall

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  admissions staff thinks that you can hack it, you're in. How can they do that ... same school, unless there is a recruited athlete, legacy or some other special case for whom inconsistency can be excused. At a fourth institution

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  New Game a comic summary of the semester

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and shame over a failure that feels misunderstood by others, and an emergence

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024