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  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  final until they go out the door of the admissions office on the day we ... , usually on the order of lower double-digits. S&Mer wrote, "Just out of ... there is some problem with the mail server" Something on the order of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  first of these landmarks, the Mercedes tower, even had an exhibit on the ... DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION According to one of my labmates, authorities have set up a row of big-screen projectors in Berlin spanning an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can ... myself to the mat, unable to progress beyond the most rudimentary of levels

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about ... year at MIT. I think fondly of that year, despite all the difficulties that came with it. That first year had a particularly high yield of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  depend on the availability of a diverse cross-section of talented graduates ... , you can download the plan, or read the recommendations on the website ... as ‘friend-of-the-court’ —  is filed by entities not themselves parties

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  essays I helped edit last year. He's a friend of a friend who wrote an entire essay about soldering. Like many of you, he worked toward MIT with a ... , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Kim's observations on the interview and our interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  GPT. The following thoughts on this topic are advisory from the two of us ... over sequences of words; ones that are “large” have been trained on ... of any technology or writing practice depends on context, including the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... help somehow, if you are still thinking about what to do on May 1st. Let

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  hours here – most of my sleeping is done when I'm on vacation =] ). It is ... , decisions day (D-Day from here on out) is upon us and for the prospective ... 't explain (the likes of which you won't see again until prom) and bandwidth

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snake doodles🐍🐍 i drew snakes to start off the year of the snake!

  

  [caption id="attachment_110676" align="alignnone" width="768"] happy year of the snake![/caption]

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  the 10 AM test (also worth 12.5% of grade) to work on this, and that if ... 're running on empty, you can run on intensity alone. Maybe not as fast as you ... Thursday night was, well, interesting. I was working on my lab for 6

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  can say on this side of both mental/physical overtraining is that it ... watch a livestream. You can also track specific runners on the BAA website ... , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  This guest post on LGBT life at MIT comes to us from Cory Hernandez ... doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites, trying to remember experiences from CPW. There was a lot of information

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  wanted to keep it going. On the morning of the activities midway, maybe ... . On one level, I still enjoy being a member of hall and participating in ... summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  University of Zambia (UNZA) before we begin our trip to the community of Mwape ... humidity are minor concerns. Last night, I ate dinner at a fast food

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  than up the river, and of course I still actually live on MIT's campus ... -powered airplane. The guys with their plane on the day of its first flight test ... science-filled reception at the Museum of Science. And then we'll go on our

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... on his mailbox that had some sort of complicated mechanism that I no ... onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  state of New Hampshire's greatest, and most revered, cultural practice ... -Shave-November, as practiced by natives of New Hampshire, are sacred, but simple ... , Movember, an Australian variant of the practice that focuses exclusively on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  , back to the point of this entry. Every year on 5th East, we repaint Black ... on campus, you should come see in person, instead of relying on the ... leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005