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  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  questions intentionally designed to help us get to know the student as a real ... . Instead, this post is to help you get to know the Enigmatic Admissions Officers of MIT™ who are responsible for reading your applications. We get to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  ? Well, I guess I could go home pretty early to get a full night's rest ... - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  : general requirements that undergraduates need to get a degree. Schools and ... we're getting a close approximation through these "Methods of ... catalog we've seen with a long subject index. Listed next to the title of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... identified as Lutheran?” I’m going to just google the MIT site, and while I don

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  ) asks, “When's the latest I can get my article to you?", to which I respond, “When's the earliest you can get it to me?" Ultimately, we agree on ... , Professor Sive, indeed. 10:00pm: John '98 asks when I'm going to get around

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  to blog, I genuinely wasn't sure of the response we'd get. It's a cold ... write something. My secret mental goal was to try and get at least seven ... godsend for those who might want to get a sense of what life was like at

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  hanging a bicycle using the fridge as a prop to get it up in the air." They ... the EC table saw to get the right shape of pieces to fill that room ... Campus is going to get renovated soon, and gods know how the floor plan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  of trust in me. I would get to shape the story, develop key methods and ... methods, but David and Ali taught me how to actually approach research ... of the semester to get incoming frosh excited. One of the biggest

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  development projects. Most of all, he told us never to get discouraged or give ... . Muti is far from the capital city. It takes a 9-hour bus ride to get to a ... for four hours to get to my father’s village in the countryside, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  remembers the three-factor authorisation procedure she had to follow to get ... again, in wide-eyed wonder that I get to choose which classes I can take ... final exam. It's written by me, it only has one question, and I get to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  college apps, you would be sadly mistaken. Once you get to college, you ... getting a job is not fun, and can cause you to get pretty behind on ... unfortunately not super common. most people want to get job experience over the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  's telling about gender. getting to look at this painting up close in my room ... character to your room. get SLAPped! ... campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  firehose.” The earliest reference I could find is from the 1972 How to Get ... on How to Get Around MIT. And now that I’ve cited How to Get Around MIT twice, I’m obligated to mention that it stopped getting published 2011

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  that I was working to get into MIT. If I got into MIT, I’d be happy. And ... projects turn out, and not all grants get accepted. In order to succeed you ... ’ve already given your all, for almost two decades, to get where you are now. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally ... resorted to the “single finger poke method.” B E N O B E R L T O N. Enter

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  that you won’t get a response to your e-mail (more on this later), you ... ’re dying to get off-campus (understandable), you can also look... 5. Outside ... -mails get buried in overflowing inboxes; it happens to all of us. But listen

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  getting me to this place. But the reality is that I could not have done it ... getting to these scores with an amount of studying that wasn’t detrimental ... . The GRE is pretty formulaic, so it’s all about getting used to the kinds

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  summer. When they offered me another chance to get involved in the program ... , it also involved a fantastic team. I was lucky enough to get the ... country turned out to be a super effective burnout recovery method. A year

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  . I couldn’t get myself to finish the last remaining work I had due ... ,[/annotation] from a bunched up fist against my cheek, to my index brushing the ... getting by, and it feels like I’m regressing. I worry I won’t be able to get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  encourage us all to volunteer - "Come on guys, we've got to get you more ... interesting things that don't often happen to people (my latest story was a ... getting to that age where people from professors to the guy who mops my dorm

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009