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• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  want me to succeed, because of course your professor wants you to pass your class, of course your advisor wants you to graduate. i'm in an ... of me still cares. not enough to do more, but enough to hope that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  , they sprinted out of the room to thunderous applause. These charming men ... around delivering them, to the mortification of the recipient, and the ... lot of things this weekend; "sleep a lot" was not among them). Ode to 8

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... accurate depictions of how things really were. How wonderful was it to get to ... always appears to be! Do you think the show did a good job of capturing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  of all applicants, when so many students may not be able to take them ... unavailability of testing due to the pandemic, we think it is important to maintain ... I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing pandemic, our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  classes on zoom, returning to high-pressure academia after a year of self ... am unhappy and what else I can do to be happy (usually, one of the ... emotions do in fact fluctuate with the state of the world, which I want to be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  waiting until the end of January to see my grades?" Please see my response ... this the kind of thing you guys like to see for those questions?" Yes ... '?!" To quote the December 7 issue of the Wall Street Journal: "Marilee

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non ... are very few of these arrangements. MIT participates in the Exchange Scholar Program, which enables current graduate students to enroll at
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new coat of ... the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... "words of comfort" - they are advice to help you do well. If I had to pick

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  -time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind was Holy moly I am going to be in the vicinity of ... (and beyond!) to hear this incredible man speak. I got one of the last

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  out that I need to get all four of them removed... And so on. Each ... picking one to write about; while I fret, more pile up, and the Cycle Of ... to look at things. --- A couple of weeks ago, my dear friend Davie

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  , I did a thing. And it was a pretty cool thing to be a part of if I do ... race, the first of which I wasn’t present for because I had to work my ... was a bit of a struggle, as I’ve tried to write joint posts before, but

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  frustrating because I want to develop mastery of the content, and that is ... too much, I have done nothing. tick Sometimes, in trying to do all of the things, I’ve lost sight of why I’m doing anything. I’ve had to take

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  of material to cover, and this is a CI-M; but it seems convoluted and ... I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP ... : design and manufacture many many yo-yos. We're in groups of 3-6, and we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  mission that we chose to accept is to visit the hometown of every senior ... homecooked meal after days of trying to pick the healthy options on fast food ... /1: Austin After 25 hours of driving, we made it to Austin late this morning

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  dollars into this pipeline. They hoped to begin construction of the pipeline ... glimpse of what a writing assignment at MIT can look like. To preface that ... -- exploitation of this finite resource is dirtying our planet. I'm about to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  to memorize dialogues to perform in front of the class every day. the ... difficult to remember, but i'm the type of person who can't not prepare for ... , do i miss having the freedom to fuck up my sleep schedule in lieu of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  'Miracle Child' of Public Drinker Earns a Full Scholarship to MIT ... Institute of Technology. Ask about Belinda's daughter and you're guaranteed to ... was used to being at the top of her class, the transition to high school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  evidence of other kinds of challenges which could lead to job opportunities ... ' return to campus, I reveled in the laughter and greetings heard down the ... signal the start of the fall term. But, even more than their sounds, I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... 're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2016!), that ... Hello, MIT Class of 2016! Here are some things that admitted students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  , I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the ... body is whining about the mountains of work we have to do; some ... Hmm, I was under the impression that summer was supposed to be a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005