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• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  socially at your own pace. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I called ... your first semester at MIT. Contrary to what one may believe from the ... word for it, you will extremely appreciate it. It is so easy to get

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  out of your dorm and take the T down to South Station, you can get on a ... pay $26 for a ride--after all, you can just get upperclassmen to to tell ... to be a half-mile walk out of your room and across the Harvard Bridge

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  by looking out the window. As long as you're sitting, you're ... to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all ... than others. If your work is getting frustrating, sometimes all you have

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  , there's an official, MIT-specific definition). When you get to Campus ... it, is easily accessible by you. Feel free to explore and check out the ... 10 minutes ago I actually heard myself say "I really need to eat and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  people tend to make great teams.  These are the people I get super excited ... deeper into the science of what you're working with in order to better inform your design. The second part, creativity, is harder to define.  It

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  enough time to get my fill of goofing around before the hell of spring ... . And though I had no idea where to host my event, or where to get the ... I’m no cook when it comes to normal food, but if stupid ideas were

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that ... to function properly. When you don’t get sleep at night, you end

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  replace your recurring nightmare of being forced to swim the Charles clad in ... somehow forgot to submit the event on the left on time, it's not on the official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  you're not going to get as much out of something you join strictly to ... undergraduate degree, you're qualified to apply. This does mean that if your mom didn't have a bachelor's degree, she could apply, get in, and come to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  means I'll have to swing by the shop to make something awesome so I can ... machine that you can use to make some precise cuts into a piece by using xyz coordinates. However in order to establish your coordinates, you need to edge

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  them all to read this blog. The point is, you should always make your ... , you shouldn't lie to your friends, despite the fact that I do it every ... chessboard mounted to the wall with pieces attached by the magical properties

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  middle of your sophomore year, to allow time to get a pre-medical advisor ... of recommendation and proceed to your personal statement, where you will divulge your greatest disappointments and accomplishments to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  should try to establish ourselves as individuals by being the best in ... to be different than everyone else to get into a good college. You needed to be a leader with drive to change something about your community

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  ="Sort of. I'm probably sticking around a little longer to get a master ... to you when you've spent enough of your time (and soul, and heart, and ... the self-deprecation: I like to go to lecture. And I like to get a lot

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  By now many of you have seen our new promo video on the website. And ... video to be featured right on the homepage. Its part of our overall communication strategy to showcase a constantly changing mix of videos -- from old

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  , once your moment is over, you need to get back in the game as well ... , get back in the game because you have a big decision to make in the next six weeks. Not to worry, we are here to answer your questions about all

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late august 25th. 41 days are behind me with 41 days to go. before i know it, this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  individuals worst hit by a lack of access to safe drinking water. Worldwide ... 1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to Costa Rica to work with their partners in a community to eradicate the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  past ideas about these essays, because maybe they're similar to yours. 1 ... to a prompt. You are not your résumé. Specifically for the MIT ... -essays may not represent you in all your 1080p HD glory. 2. You don't need to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016