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• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  with a group. Plan ahead, but also plan to be flexible. As previously ... such an encounter, although to be fair, I do have Ron Rivest's signature somewhere...on a drop form. And only because he used to be my academic advisor

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  pictures of the places that were memorable to me in some way. Eighteen months ... .  I’m trying to be hopeful. I’m staying in Cambridge for the summer and ... cafe won't be there once we return back to campus.  The chapel  My

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Profile On The Web: Can It Hurt You? Responses to questions on Facebook and other internet profiles and how they can affect college…

  

  responding to her questions, I realized that my answers may be useful to others ... privacy - sites like Facebook are designed to be a community, a playground, etc for students - not designed to be a spying tool for Big Brother. To

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  design is cool. I used to be pretty good at it, but then I stopped learning ... ...what's the word? Oh yeah, fun. To tell the truth, it can be a really ... in regular physics, and I was never good enough to be invited to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  is an Asian fusion place that used to be called Thelonious Monkfish for ... [/caption] Little Big Diner - Joon and I took the Green Line all the way to its ... blog post, but I've been trying to see more of Boston and Cambridge this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  thought, again, about going back to my freshman fall. I would be a different person, now, in any number of ways, if I had to replay my life. More ... been able to develop my friendships in the same ways. As I hefted the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application Now Available here we go!

  

  : Start by contacting your EC as soon as you are ready to schedule your ... faculty. Portfolios must be submitted by November 1 for Early Action or ... be sure to frequently check the email account that you list on your

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  the ROTC program - for many students, this is a great way to make MIT ... or there may be other reasons for u to not even sending a reply ok ... less of "this needs to be your top priority", but they are substantial

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  MIT by allowing me to focus less on money and materials and spend more ... ’s possible to ‘solo’ something, engaging others is fun and can usually be more ... time, and I’m ready to be challenged again! I’m amped about this coming

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  , and you are going to be visiting Cambridge sometime this fall, let the ... that the interview is not only a way for us to get to know you better, but also a way for you to get to know us better. Show up on time

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  my research process, as opposed to being stressed on a weekly basis ... whether I would ever be able to hold down a 9-to-5. I would go to the office ... educational and productive to have someone much more experienced than myself be

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  unsuccessfully to fasten it shut. The climbing wall is run by volunteer staff, who ... with them. I realized that it would be easier to close the window from ... hands. From outside, I could see how the latch had to be adjusted in order

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  I am being kicked from the nest without being able to fly. I sit on ... patience and great humor. I will never be able to forget this community that ... readers) with the great things that will never be experienced the way I

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  waiting for the professor to announce, "By the way, you remember that ... being Harv '08, and I've gotten to know some of her similarly cool friends ... , and effortlessly so. And yet she still manages to be an excellent pset

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  the dining hall! It might be nice to be able to cook myself dinner ... shock. To be honest, I was pretty surprised, too, but when I look back it ... Oats These seem to be getting really popular lately? I feel like you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  this "work" place also be "home"? Now, I take the bus from home to work ... be wondering: who is this girl and why is she talking about astronomy? Does she even go here? The answer is no, I don't go here, BUT I used to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  decorated in color schemes once thought to be merely theoretical outside of ... a national park, slept through more meetings, drove home by way of a ... -independent Schrodinger equation lolz), got stuck in traffic for an hour on the way back to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  ", because you have just enough room to extend your arms all the way. Coffin ... seemed like it'd be a little easier to sleep under. Ready to see the final ... At the end of last year, I transferred from Burton 2 to Burton 1, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  of my voice, which I have already judged to be less than good. Now, on ... following are true", she said. "You want to be a part of this once in a ... would be, but pointed out that that wasn't a reason to not do it. Since he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  other hand, it makes me feel warm inside to think about all the ways ... . food, in general, is a nice way to express care for someone else. there ... would say that people are just saying that to be nice. but it's been my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021