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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  . Sincerely, Krystal *: Welcome to the footnotes, the land of comments ... of rewarding thorough readers. I wanted to put tiny, microscopic ... starting spring of my first year. What’s the point? 1) I get to declare a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People ... to at the beginning of IAP, but there were far smaller mini activities ... 't get to attend as many of the workshops as I would've liked, but I have

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  -generated (we'll get to that). However, we knew that at least some of the video ... -roll footage of campus to use as the background later. We waited to film Stu ... /production process, and 100% of it was conjured by Loren, who I have come to suspect is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  of campus tend to fit more easily into the "stereotypical MIT student ... , to loud, sociable, and partying, but forms of socialization tend to be ... looks, in the words of my little sister, "like it's going to walk across

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  self than my high school self. It's hard to tell if this is because of ... and generous to my friends. I think that's my greatest mistake of the fall, and of 2019; I regret the dates I was too tired to go on, the team

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  unable to write you a letter. We encourage you to try to get letters of ... We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly ... Secondary School Report. We have always said that it is most important to get
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  of Women Engineers would like to invite local high school students to ... set for Saturday, May 5, 2012 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. The topic of the ... students arrive on the day of the competition, they will be assigned to small

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule ... out another aspect of MIT or talking to the potential students. Rule #3 ... part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  . Hope to fix that soon! So what have I been doing... First, a variety of ... around campus and add a variety of guest authors to our blogging program to ... Oh, what a bad blogger I have been. I was lamenting to Matt last week

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  I'm sure most of you are enjoying the holiday season with your ... . Already, I find myself missing Boston and MIT, and I'm looking forward to the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  Tomorrow is, yes, the First of May[?], which means those of you who have decided to join the incoming class have a very crucial choice to ... this decision is: your MIT username (also referred to as your Athena or

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of ... that most interesting of changes to this year's application...we have ... a lot of time this spring thinking about how to make it more

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since ... 've managed to stay on top of my technicals by devoting as little effort as ... semester where we're virtual is absolute torture. On top of this, we have to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  . But! Remember, remember the Rule of November. Try not to get entangled ... friends from home. I’ve had to make up too many months of silence after the excitement of novel college life subsided. A common suggestion is to make ~1

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  nice to find another place to study. My favorite option was the room of an upperclassmen down the hall who liked to study in one of the ... feet on the ice. Now hockey may not seem that foreign to many of you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions ... 're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2012!), that ... information: Students can request an extension of the May 1 deadline in order to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... am going to Zambia this January. The instructor of this class is the ... amazing to attend school in an area where these sorts of people's paths

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  her school, she is pretty much a revolution of one as she tries to push ... bar of excellence, which, according to Jones, "rewards people who are ... like to cook or write poetry, and you see a very different aspect of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  , the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood ...   Prerequisite Reading: East of Eden, John Steinbeck "To my heart, it felt like the ... within to the edge of what can be loved." Autobiography of Red is for

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  , sitting in a room with my mother while she watches a cocktail of What Not to ... and putt-putt-putted away from the dock. A bunch of us went to the upper ... Sauza '11 decided to intervene and provide one of the best pictures of the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008