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• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  to MIT? What might you be interested in studying? Those kinds of ... during the college selection process, and ultimately turned out to be a ... is to be yourself. Treat the interview as a conversation, and as an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  't have to be deep or profound or whatever. Vibes are important. It's 100% acceptable to choose based on whether people recognize your Homestuck jacket ... one of the reasons I chose MIT. I'm celebrating by wearing a Homestuck

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  . Hopefully the final edition will be something useful that anyone can refer to ... limited by the amount of energy you are willing to expend. Walking from the ... Frogger without even batting an eyelash. Please try not to get hit by a car

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last ... way to the 2012 Livestrong Assembly, held in Austin, Texas. As co ... to be created all over the nation - all of which will launch their

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  sometimes, you don't have to be better at what you're doing. You can sing, or ... to be a trick question or anything. It doesn't have to be something ... . Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  all the way down from Laredo (about 3 hours away) to attend. I got to ... go back the other way on the highway, or find my way to my destination ... finally make my way back towards my destination. Once I get to my

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and ... the latest tides of prefrosh, but nonetheless I do want to totally sound ... experience, gently tugging on the writer's (aka, my) natural tendency to share

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME. Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological ... going to UROP and I was going to be a Medlink and an MIT blogger and then

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  .) On Sunday when I heard there was going to be yet another snow storm ... we teamed up to roll the base which Dan insisted had to be at least as ... that it stayed! Ghassan G, who stopped by earlier to take some pictures

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  applicant)! I should start by saying that we are NOT trying to trick you or be ... ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money ... . You're all welcome! In your specific case, you will have to be

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

  

  semester comes to an end. classes hold their last lectures one by one. many ... comes to an end. my window, having been tormented by a semester’s worth of ... "]window[/annotation]. and so the semester comes to an end. my floormates depart one by one

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  . Remember to bring warm clothes... even our September weather may be a bit ... campus. This was a great way for us to prove that the minority community ... ). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  any of you, I'll be so relieved to have made it there in one piece that I'll be in a great mood! This fall will bring me to Connecticut ... of the actual content to be somewhat repetitive. This doesn't mean you

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  Hi everyone! I am excited to be back celebrating this milestone with ... helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a college counselor to give the same advice I loved to give on the blogs. Each

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  application process that should be at the top of your To Do list: the interview ... , hopefully two-way, where the EC gets to know you: what drives you, interests ... around the corner. While I hate to distract you from the application

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  entry to mention a great school that often gets overlooked by students ... , when thousands of bloggers dedicate their blogs to talking about one important topic to drive the popular discourse towards more important topic

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  be rectified continued for a number of days, and due to finals and ... a 13th member to the Ring Committee. This additional member will be ... interest for the committee to be finalized as soon as possible, so that the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  know it's cliché, but I know it to be true. At MIT, friendship is ... scrapbook. I am so grateful to love and be loved at MIT. Olivia J '25 and ... I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  things about living in Random Hall is that when I want to be alone, which ... ’t want to be alone, which is also often, I can always find somebody else awake to hang out with. The only time when everyone seems to be asleep is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / CPW

  I’m coming back to cross stitch on campus again It's been three years, but I'm back!

  

  ago. Those attending that CPW are now going to be wrapping up their ... treated it as an opportunity to be kind of like those sidewalk chalk artists ... reading this (blogs and I are old and outdated, but we cling to relevancy

  • by Snively '11
  • April 3, 2026