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  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  'll focus super-hard on all the other pieces of your application. No worries ... know that there are four different states your interview can take on the ... with your interviewer to send us an extra (first?) copy of your interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  Person. I used to eat one of these Huge Wraps on my way back to the living ... In 1984, a book lots of people have read, the people in control made ... went to this Well Known School of Three Letters. That's like another life

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  unknowns. for example, it was only through a graduate sitting in on one of ... in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... continuity, like living groups. other groups collapse, often from a cascade of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  weeks, as the semester has built up, the value of checking up on people ... Life is busy at MIT. Most of the time, our schedules and motivation ... . And amidst all of this constant work and running around, we see people

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  Independent Living Groups) in general put on a lot of events to dispel the myths of MIT fraternities and sororities and show what our communities are ... CPW doesn't get boring, even for current students. Despite many of us

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2017 will be ... year is very low; we had to turn away the vast majority of excellent ... take lightly. Of those applicants, we admitted just over 1,500 students

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post. NOTE: You needn’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... seriousness, starting a project was kind of a milestone for me in high school

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  ....) there is nothing like taking your hair out of its ponytail and washing off the grime of the day. The showering is the easy part, though-it’s the ... very few variations on the nice pants/collared shirt/tie ensemble. As

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Thursday, some group of people on the floor puts together a late night snack ... going on in the floor lounge... One of the requirements of 3.091 (one of ... ice cream. It was all quite delicious, even if a certain member of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  service. Decorated with medals and ribbons on graduation. You've heard of ... . You’re putting yourself on paper. Recognize the things you did and fell in love ... did. I doubted each one of my essays. Re-wrote drafts. Edited the main

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

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  a sample of laptop stickers of MIT. These types of blogs are less ... thousands of other people at the institute who experience MIT just as deeply ... : Unfortunately, I am not immune to the allure of selection bias, so the MIT that is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  Grüezi mitenand! Thought I'd give you all a quick update on how life ... 'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the last week of lectures here at ETH Zürich. But, the semester technically

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the MIT community takes to make everyone feel welcomed. There are plenty of ... Science and Engineering) APR (Association of Puerto Rican Students at MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton ... actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a model of MIT's famous Green building. Interestingly enough, this model was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  -circles-of-hell-on-a-good-day-was-even-cold type of cold. But seriously, I ... this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to pretend that temperatures like that don’t exist. Anyways. The point of all

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  one to do when one discovers an un-blogged aspect of MIT??? BLOG IT! As ... meal of the day. Instead of inspiring me to eat a balanced breakfast ... important meal of the day normally starts my day with a feeling of guilt

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

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  guys, but the phones are kind of all busy right now so I have to wait a ... pretty much every aspect of freshman life at MIT. I love this school and ... digging around through bunches of paper. Score one for blog comments being

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  will be no extra content to this post. Kidding, of course. I've been reading your comments on Stu's post and was going to write back but then ... , the application process in general, and moving forward. All of your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  . Well, I'll show you what I have... The early hours of Thursday found me ... moment for me, because this time last year Anthony was simply one of my ... reg desk. Very cool. It wouldn't be a good entry without a picture of

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of ... typical nerds? A. Definitely not. Many of us are very atypical nerds. Q. No ... how to talk about anything but science? A. Well, most of us don't. But

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005