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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  strange piece of deep, psychological programming that seems to unite pretty ... to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all ... absolute perfect answer to this question. My freshman year, I went to Sigma

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life ... keeping track of how many fire alarms each dorm has has since 2021. to our ... , extracurriculars, careers… At one of my lowest points, I decided to write a letter

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  to meet all of you! But before we get to that, the rest of the day... Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed ... ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  you in August), we got to Six Flags and began an engineer's tour of a ... before going to MIT. This was definitely not the subject of any of my ... important aspects of any trip to a theme park...overpriced food. POLL: What

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  sort of territory with my blog, but I think it's directly relevant to ... political substance of the teacher's comments. Rather, I'm curious to know ... 's coverage of this - that "16-year-olds are so impressionable that we have to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  According to the admissions profession's Code of Ethics and ... upon date by which students reply to offers of admission. Following May 1, we take about a week to determine the state of the incoming class, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  paper in over a year, so it was nice to revisit the HASS part of me that ... :30, committing to the idea of skipping my 10 a.m. Chinese lecture entirely. I had ... exhaustion of being in multiple Zoom meetings a day and that I'll be able to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by ... veins with IV fluids most of them had better things to do - like go on ... to do in my busy schedule of having a fever and sleeping it off. S^3

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  simultaneously trying to be kind to the institution that gives me the privilege of ... with every day that comes and I want it to change. For those of you who ... students are going to travel, regardless of break or not, and the only impact

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  , but I was happy to hear a couple of my friends saw them that night, lit ... Hey friends!! I wanted to drop this brief blag here because I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN I SAW THIS HACK YESTERDAY. For those of you who may not have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Stress

  

  's own Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones) Speaking of parents: to the ... Two pieces that stressed out parents and students may want to check out... Boston Globe article: College applications add to holiday stress

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  half an hour of sleep before work. Welcome to Guild Camp 2008&mdash ... resemblence to our initial plot. Every guild camp is different, of course. Last ... plots that none of the writers saw until it was too late to do anything

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  ] I committed to MIT a couple of weeks ago, so my main goal at CPW was ... group of friends to plan with. We were pretty meticulous with our ... screenshot of my spreadsheet. I went to 18/33 of the events I put on my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  change of scenery is refreshing and jumpstarts my mind to continue working ... -senior" status) to finish up a degree. I'm excited to be taking advantage of this ... , these are some of the highlights of some of my favorite places to sit and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns ... reasons I ended up coming to MIT over some other schools. My junior year of ... -term freshman to nth-year grad students) in August on one or more pieces of your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the ... Drawing: An assortment of beavers I was originally going to fill the entire ... 've read in the past year alone so it's hard to decide, but some of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  to spend a lot of time with wordy disclaimers and pretentious claims ... audience. But most of the time, he stuck to the topic, which thoroughly ... 'm going to buy that book" is a perfect candidate for the use of the word

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their ... my feet to quickly realize that I don't know much of anything, really ... 'm especially proud of or interesting classes to laud around. I have no research

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a ... 't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with ... anyone to come out of that situation with purely good feelings. I don

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  , depending on the time of my earliest class on a given day, I have three to five hours to do anything I please. The lack of social distractions make ... around when I do, according to data collected by the Office of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019