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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  see the need to sugar-coat any of this. If this is your first time to ... absolutely zero of them. Shock, I know, one of the faces of the MIT Admissions ... and potentially prompting them to not apply to MIT. The truth of the

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  . This blog will be updated over the course of the week the things that are ... boring) but it is an accurate representation of my life at the end of the ... finish before Saturday (the day I move out of MacGregor). At this point

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  , college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays ... year, I stressed about grades, especially during the first quarter. I ... . Even under the graces of Pass No Record, I feel stressed out: it builds

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  Beginning tomorrow through the middle of October, my Admissions ... . This year, the first meetings are in the northeast: Massachusetts ... , Illinois, the DC area, Florida, and more. Complete list of MIT Central

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  for ATS's first Dim Sum run of the year. Voila! A few t-stops on the ... blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work ... connoisseur of next week's problem sets. The next morning, my esteemed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  If you are under the age of 25 (and maybe also if you are over it ... rest of RingComm, presented our designs for the 2020 brass rat! It was ... just collapsed out of exhaustion from the running/heavy box carrying

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  about some of the things I did to avoid thinking about decisions ... some of the questions are pretty repetitive so it kinda feels like you ... The Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala, a botanical garden in Sweden. It's very

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  get back to my p-set. First, as the title of this entry suggests ... Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in ... of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  First of all: my apologies! Junior year has seized me, spun me around ... write about something special: numbers. See if you can make sense of the ... numbers meant more to me than all others. One of the most common questions

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center ... , casually tossed a disc around, then lined up at our respective ends of the ... pulled. I sprinted ahead, ready to receive the first pass. My team

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got ... optimization problem for a group of five to select which bus out of the 10 waiting will fill up first once they get on it. And then once you think the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  'll answer the second question, first. For upperclassmen, they chose their classes by preregistering on WebSIS before the beginning of the next ... where you can pick up a poster of the LSC schedule. As for freshmen, when

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  schedule packed-ness, and works quite simply. First, count up the number of ... Some of you may be wondering why I dropped off the face of the ... my next class?" The number of "yes" answers to that question divided by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  out of the college experience, and not every environment is conducive to ... [annotation note="you know, the ihtfp of it all"]person's abyss ... do you want?” That should be the first thing you ask yourself. From

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  , the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to ... staff dashboards, which, as part of the broader MITVote initiative, has helped substantially raise the registration and voting rate of MIT students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain ... the first thing I need to say is that our process is individual-based. That is, we consider each applicant on their own, within the context of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to travel very far then); so this year, I knew I wanted to make the most of my ... essentially the best of both worlds because we got the price of a hostel but the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  planning on it, before the pandemic hit. One of the big reasons that I ... times and be cognizant of them. I don't even remember what the last East ... , and they've sort of just passed into the mist of my memory because of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  [/annotation]so I got first dibs on a lot of cute clothes. The entire event overall ... most definitely not the only undergraduate excited at the prospect of free things. By the time we got there, there was a large mass of people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  was wearing a sort-of suit because it was the first day of my internship ... of the city where I was born. I felt the calling. Actually, I also ... high school. I take the free bus down to the other end of 16th Street

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015