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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  have comMITted, focus the weekend on exploring each of the dorms.  Make ... dye your hair, let us take you on tours of campus (I can show you where ... meet all of us Friday on the third floor of the Student Center (W20) from

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  ) On the note of Dawn, her boyfriend (and later, husband), is actually ... . Purple lights turn on and fill the stage with a sense of curiosity and ... This is the first half of this post and it was written March 5th

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  skills on the way, that would be lovely, but it wouldn’t be enough. Of ... classes that fulfill me instead of the ones that are required, and ... ; I don’t entirely like this rush of one thing and then another, too

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born in Moscow on March 12, 1992, into a demographic hole created by World War II and deepened by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you ... happy, and enjoy the small distractions of life. Graduating high school is a huge achievement and will still lead to new beginnings; welcome them

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  To start out the new school year, I'm going to try including more fun ... seriously. In an ideal world, I'll post one of these videos every Sunday night and then continue blogging regularly once every couple of weeks

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  is the most senior of the current student bloggers? [answer at the end of the entry] You may recall that last month we put out a call for new ... reveal this year's new bloggers, I'd like to share with you some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Home! I'm back in the US after three weeks in Asia.

  

  the new application season for the Class of 2010. My first Admissions ... the swing of things tomorrow. It will be a little strange to be back ... will include a brief recap of my time in Asia, a Questions Omnibus, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  SoOoOoOOooooo it’s the most wonderful time of the year: IAP! That time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... the crushing guilt that comes with not using every moment of your free

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  Some of you may recall Shuli's whiteboard post, and upon this whiteboard were a number of (SFW) out of context quotes. Well, as it happens, most living communities have some version of this exact whiteboard

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  got less than 7xx on some test. Should I retake it? Plenty of people get ... everyone - remember that all of the prompts on our application are simply ... answer those without your entire application in front of me, in the context

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  As many of you know, there has been a lot of uncertainty in the ... their hopes and fears regarding the new administration, and many faculty ... 's letter to the community on November 9, the day after the election, he wrote

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  polar vortex commotion, my flight to Milan was one of the thousands ... extra classes. On the way back, my flight was delayed again-- but don ... teaching all my subjects, which turned out to be a whooping mix of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  Blogger application? That's a silly question, isn't it. In the annals of ... ... the coveted 50 pixel avatar of an Admissions Blogger. Sure you won't be ... office's own running of the bulls, only with more emoticons and Dr

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  few months.  On Living  Back in March of 2020, when all of campus was ... am also so exhausted. On Learning  The insecurities of the med school ... decisions”, but you can make decisions right. On the other end of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  ,000! I don't like physics. A lot of people seem to think I do. I'd like to ... sorts of majors here at MIT to choose from that have nothing to do with ... cognitive sciences, I could do chemistry or biology, or any number of

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  . as cj commented on shuli’s post introducing the new set of bloggers, i ... your manuscript, “On the electrodynamics of moving bodies”, we encourage ... these comments as a negative judgment of your scientific abilities; on the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  . But I'll put some on here anyway. Some of them have appeared on here ... One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some pictures of myself. I don't have that many pictures of myself, and most of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  There has been some discussion on CollegeConfidential and in the comments on my post announcing the 12/17 12:17 EA decision release ... and time!   While Pharyngula on CollegeConfidential mused that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  mean "this morning?") watching a biblical archaeology special on The History Channel that was trying to determine the precise location of Sodom ... , when I logged into WebSIS, I took special notice of a link that had been

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006