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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  . Presumably they demonstrated, some other way, that they would be able to come ... are very different. It would probably be much easier to start with ... 't be able to be too long, but I'll do my best- Research opportunities

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  ... ;) Where architecture comes to life with wood and more.Two afternoons each week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to the MIT Museum way up on the tippy-top of campus (where top = North), I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  knew they would be. I came to MIT completely unprepared. My background in ... , which you've probably already read about), to be hardcore. Only, I didn ... to my roommate, "It's so... gray!" She's from the northwest corner of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  applicants.Now this is a matter which needs to be resolved and I hope you act ... conductors can barely remember people by the end of the day. "I also talked to ... most of your scores are in or close to those ranges, you'll probably be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  , really, needed to. But I did learn to be spending better. Being aware of ... . Knowing makes me unafraid of "not having enough", which then allows me to be ... 'm still off by almost 40% when comparing the total estimated spending to

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  , I’m sitting on a bus that will take about 8 hours to get me half way ... -Japan works – you apply to the program as a whole by November or so. After a few ... enough, a job offer found its way to my inbox in January. Here’s a normal

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  leeway to be as Unproductive as I want to be, I watch Netflix on the way ... , I’m not even shaken by needles anymore. I had to get eight shots ... get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  out a year hoping to be favored by chance. Plausible, however, does not ... admission decisions should certainly be sinking in by now. For those offered ... transfer is proportionally more competitive. In order to be eligible to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  to find out (the answer to that last question, by the way, is no ... .  But primary sources are so hard to find, right?  Right? Michael's Knowledge Theorem: if you want to learn more about any topic, there's a world

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  officers; it’s a catch-call term used by employers to encompass all the miscellaneous tasks an employee may be required to perform outside the scope of ... performer Assign MIT Admissions staff to be “bouncers” and ushers for the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  handful of essays to get through. I should be stressed out - really really ... 'm feeling pretty nostalgic. I figured, what better way to summarize the past ... also like many people, I too aspired to be an astronaut once upon a time

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  groups, it's a lot more interesting to cook for myself. By the way, I hate ... wouldn't be a nut roll without... roll. Prior to 50 minutes of baking ... started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You On the eve of Decision Day (D-Day), I bring you three things that adds to…

  

  coordinators for the work you put into organizing this!! (by the way, today was ... who happens to drop by! Think of it as a CPW for adults =p - check out ... singer to come to campus and give a concert), and guess who came! :D (no

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  outmaneuver any NYC taxi. The Motherland. I woke up last morning to the slow ... gaps in the blinds. I rolled over, and realized - to my delight - that I was back in my "own" bed. I half expected my sister to open the door

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  be with a friend’s family, so I didn’t want to be rude -- and, as I ... that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn ... ’ve never been a sandwich person, so there was nowhere I had to consciously

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  ways I am able to support my spending habit. I have a theory that ... right. I checked the reviews and the XS turned out to be a sweet camera ... working to make an awesome video), am doing NextACT (a play put on by Next

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  I am very curious." Kallie: "Ok, since you seem to be rather in ... throughout high school, and while the people who do shows here don't seem to be ... , but there are other things I want to do, like be in marching band, plan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  must be dying to hear what I've been up to. I expect the barrage of questions and interrogations to start pouring in any day now. Just kidding. However, lucky you, I'm going to tell you what I've been doing anyway. I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  intelligence.. etc. I switched from course 5 (Chemistry) to course 9 by getting a ... iPod, and I mean, it's not like that coat rack was supposed to be in ... . One of the classes I took appeared to be on the easier end of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  , I'll share them here. I would like my sophomore year to be less rough ... generally won't be able to help me understand things. I don't place a lot of ... Plans Early I may be a sellout but I am determined to get a nice

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022