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• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  those personal essays. I recall really having to dig down deep into what ... continue to learn more as you finish up your application process! To help ... A lot of the people reading this have probably spent the past two

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  international students.   Each time we write a blog entry we have to pick a ... obligation to attend if you are accepted early, you just have more time to ... &A" because I'd like to answer your questions. My goal is for this to be the one

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  athletic endeavors not because we win all the time (though we have had some ... part of many students lives. Many people are having their first chance to ... you just want to congratulate Crew for beating Princeton--Have at it!

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  Stanford have incredible academic programs. He was fortunate enough to ... ’m terrible at physics, but at MIT, I didn’t have much choice besides to take ... this life, don’t we? Time flows only forward. How lucky we are to exist

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  ? Is it someone’s full-time job to churn out pumpkin after pumpkin non-stop until we have enough to stock the sale? [caption id="attachment_92115 ... gremlin to remain operational. Instead, we have “pumpkin crews” – small

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  have time to listen and understand the little things. All they want is to ... this place to be reading these words, you have done your work and want to ... the last time was 7.5 years (!) ago. Because Old People only like to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  , remember that you don’t have to know what to do on your own; the people ... are bad! When your expectations have been destroyed, it’s important to ... -epic REX disaster, I’ve decided to offer you people some advice for when your

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  time studying and you won't get to sleep much. But I've really been ... IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  to do, maybe because I didn’t really have time to process my thoughts ... learning when it was time to ask for help on something I was stuck on. I ... so is having friends-turned-family who set you back on your path and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  functionality a bit to make sure you're seeing new stuff all the time. The major ... just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu seems to demand attention. Alas. Hoping to be back in the office tomorrow

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds It's crunch time for college decisions.

  

  With 10 days to go until the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to the students who ... would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering concerns? Etc.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  picture (sorry it's blurry, I'll have a better quality one next time I ... when you have so much fun with the people in your family and feel comfortable there? The answer to that is usually no, especially when your home

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  a week ago, I feel compelled to at least pretend I have some salient ... tuned 'til next time when I switch to oversees correspondent. (ok so I ... speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it's now easier than ever to do so. On your ... music study. What you do is up to you. I should also note that if your ... to study), and I bet you’re really eager to come – not just for Campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  where I plan to be (and I really hope I don’t have any of the times drawn ... talk the other side, DOUSE YOUR ENEMIES and have a good time. Which side ... observe and absorb my and your experiences and fun to compile a project that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  , and with my second season of reading applications behind me, its time to start getting to know all of the wonderful people I have been able to read ... hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2016. If there's one in your

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  For $35 to $250 per square centimeter, you can have your name written ... 'll return to you the actual piece of spacecraft hardware which carried your ... the ads to fund their project to launch a student-designed small

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  journey in the time since. I wanted to blog some wise words shared by prior ... feeling dreadful that I would have to wait another 2 months, and treated it ... standing. When receiving your MIT decision today, it might have seemed as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  's important to have as much time DOING problems as possible. HKN Tutoring Now ... will swear that recitations are the worst possible waste of your time ... your psets and tests and it's much easier to fail a faceless name. Office

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  than having your feet cut off, but I really enjoy it thus far. We have ... , sorry, but I have one quick question..How do you get to be a blogger on this website? I know you have to be associated with MIT, but do they just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007