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• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  I should NOT be writing this right now because I have a ton of other ... !!!!!!!!!!!!) This is just a quick update on how life is for me right now (that's what ... as to what your next year of school may look like). I have two psets

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to ... OMG there aren't enough blanks on my application to talk about the 20 million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if my application is disrupted by a major event beyond my control?

  : Focus on taking care of yourself, your family, your community, and your ... that our hearts go out to you. We understand that there is a lot on your mind, and that you may need to focus on other things, or be temporarily
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here comes another confession of cultural ignorance, I did not know what cream tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  inevitably fell out and started on our different paths. In my freshman year of ... ="A little brave to post this on a public platform where any of them can read ... common trend on TikTok of girls asking their guy best friends what they

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  of all, I wanna know what the nightlife is like on the MIT Second, is ... ?" Well, you see, of the 11 undergrad dorms, only one, McCormick, is all ... Living Group). With most of the options being coed, the powers that be need

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is arriving on campus for their orientation, which happens contemporaneous with Residential Exploration (REX), which is part of how housing is assigned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... ceilings, and old marbled floor, You house the echoes of students’ footsteps ... talking of long hours Projects, Psets, Parties, Psets, Performances, Plays

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  've learned at MIT, academic or otherwise. After three semesters of being on ... of some places you've fallen asleep on campus. What are the   benefits ... IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  the first of November. The Beatles had already done the whole concert-on ... get on the bad graces of the janitorial staff. WATE is perhaps the only ... separate versions of it. "Poo-wate" is played on instruments, "S'weight" is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  different department?" More on the rest of my classes later, but I want you to ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to read them. Besides being the language of Rohan in the novels of J

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... people!   In the comments some of his classmates shared similar ... still. :) ... I sort of want to email admissions and ask "So thank you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear of failure. My first few weeks at MIT have seen me pick out the major

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  never-ending busy season of reading applications! So it's not like I don't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with ... caffeinated because I don't like the taste of coffee, I usually prefer

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  robot, never coded on my TI-89, never watched Star Wars. I did not get a 223,462,346,400 on my SAT. I did not take all 27 levels of the AP ... those of you up to speed on the course numbers), I’m pursuing a Theater

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  form is required of all applicants and will be available on this page in ... some answers. On mitadmissions.org, it says the following about the ... Midyear Report will be available on your MyMIT account in February and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  scored. But the main focus of your attention should be on showing the ... After I finish my M.Eng (Master's of Engineering) thesis in the ... , and otherwise fulfill me. So far, I've met a *ton* of companies. I can

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  crazy person. Maybe both. Come on, many brilliant people are crazy. Ergo ... used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of friends said on a daily basis (note: I was going to link to it, but then I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005