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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  depends on how it fits into the overall context of your application, but you ... wrote: "I know you're probably sick of people ranting on and on about ... Happy Valentine's Day! Answers to questions received through 2PM on

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  on the side (hey, it's MIT). It is, as you are probably aware, one of ... my PhD program sent all of us new first-years an Excel spreadsheet with ... out of brick and concrete. :) People are pretty split on this issue

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  for burying a highway and putting a park on top of it (gross ... lot of my time working on a PSET often isn't even solving it: it ... completely blanks. Unless I'm actively working on an assignment for that course

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... minds, right? OK. Yesterday was the first day of IAP. What am I doing ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  be spending a lot of time alone. That's a little scary. On the other ... advance. I really stand behind all of the media on this list, and I trust ... that comes with aging. It exposed me to a whole new perspective on the

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  pictures of their tubes submitted. Keep on clicking everybody, they're due tonight! After you get your tube a bunch of new stuff appears on your my ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  a new pursuit that is worthy enough of becoming a story I tell other ... with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of ... prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What other student activities can I do?

  what's going on around campus, or check out a list of active groups from the Association of Student Activities (ASA). ... You can do anything we already offer on campus, or you can start your
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  smelly for a couple of reasons: A) I didn't know I needed a seminar on ... one of the few living groups that has Residence Based Advising, or RBA ... advisor to discuss some subject in a group of around 8 housemates in a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  posting part of my first entry on his/her own blog...of course I don't mind ... Well my fellow 09er's, as most of you already know, AP scores are in ... on slides and doing all the things we would never let guests do

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  for those of you still patiently on the wait list, as she once was ... and Doing Things on colored post-card papers, and a curated set of ... myself sobbing on the floor. the dream of being someone loved & known

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  tomorrow (Thursday, 12/15/05) instead of beginning on Friday (as originally ... accessibility of the admissions officers, etc.). We try to connect with you on an ... is very protective of applicants' privacy, and I agree with her on that

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  awareness on campus. A lot of campus politics seem to have more student ... honestly in any season.   On top of all that, here are a few more ... big pharma money to the plethora of students planning on having careers

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  witness a lot of beauty in the world; I spent a year in New Zealand and ... crossposted on Substack here. I've never really wanted to be ... adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  chapter of The Prophet when I first read it. I held on to it for a future ... still remember walking away and feeling like my blood had drained out of ... to walk through. In my head was a mix of regret, anger, sadness

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  enjoy it. It's an easy and fun way to make some money on the side of my ... tutoring organization I'm a part of to discuss my lessons for a student. I ... look for apartments. MIT recently announced that only seniors will be on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  shiny new consumer electronics. It struck me how so many of these products ... didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register ... media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  've done a ton of research on the topic and you've concluded that you would ... general manager of a sports team. If you pick all the players just on talent ... * This is a Goodbye Post * I've always liked the 4th of July. I

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  new york, which i was interested in because most of my friends will be ... - it assumes that you should pick a job based on what kind of problems ... of spending all my time on unimportant things will never end unless i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  ’t understand anything on a deep level in any of my classes. I could, but I simply ... school friend still working on writing a book? Did you hear about that new ... of our conversation, we talked about music a lot. We indulged on our

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024