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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all are united by a thirst for knowledge and an indefatigable work ethic ... absolute perfect answer to this question. My freshman year, I went to Sigma

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  ". In hindsight, it's tempting to be black-and-white, and say that you ... Yuliya K. '18 Let's Go Fly A Kite by Joel G. '18 Good luck. I'll be ... It's okay to feel anxious or excited or nervous. But if you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  directly we could contribute to our community by impacting our very neighbors ... of the Leadership Training Institute. It was so exciting to be a part ... had to be organized and taken care of. Now, in March, just shy of a year

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don't just see them ... 's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how ... several times by various committees. In other words, an application is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  exciting~ This is my second time blagging from abroad, the first being ... least one of us knew left and right--students going to London, Iceland, Geneva. It seems everyone on campus was trying to get away from the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  Rogers) 7.012: Introduction to Biology (taught by Professor Eric Lander ... go through it all again! You might be wondering, what would I take as ... professors, others with small classes lead by strong teachers; some focus on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  enough, I was walking down the Infinite on my way to study for one of my ... decided to email the grad student behind the project, Barry Kudrowitz. From: Barry To: Bryan "that's great that students are interested in it! we are

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  intimidated by the to-do list. With that said, I did not apply Early Action to ... , despite being bogged down by the academic intensity, I see more and more ... that may be, MIT or not. --- If you were denied - It’s true, by the very

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  California. But it has passed both house and senate and may be on its way to ... , a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be ... to this system by an Interstate Compact. Hawaii, New Jersey, Maryland

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  to it, and utilized the remaining 8 hours of my day in the best ways I ... by friends, singing loudly for the night sky to hear. [caption id ... , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be ... laundry, and have a place to sleep. You'll actually be living here and will be able to do whatever you want. Awesome, eh? Well, I thought I'd take

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  , but...guys. i used to be a semi-professional book blogger. i also had a ... . Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — i don't feel qualified to summarize ... community is so, so uplifting, and i couldn't be more grateful to be a part of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  always love being around people who love to create. So you can imagine my ... On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is ... Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  scenes to change things around a bunch - some portlets will be retired ... , not just MIT) have a responsibilty to find a way to take the pressure ... interview process to learn more about the human being and to tap into what she

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging ... I skipped 4 days of school to go to Seattle and Vancouver to learn ... invited readers to decide which college the character Alex should attend

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  emails, phone calls, and blog comments, to say nothing of spillovers to sites like Quora, College Confidential, and /r/ApplyingToCollege.         A snapshot of our incoming email traffic to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  seems to be some sort of parade or festival every other week. And they ... busking by the mall. Even the art sings to you: this flower by the Space ... to be building another airplane for Design/Build/Fly. I'm moving into a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  ] alone, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to construct a roadmap of ... ’s amazing to see all the different ways you could theoretically graduate from ... (ASEs) when absolutely necessary. ASEs are basically a way to test out of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  zones away, I had to throw myself out of bed by 6:45 am. But on the plus ... half of us knew what to expect. After all, it must be had to shake things ... things from different angles and in different lights, also being willing to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  checking in on people, campaigning to raise funding for families affected by ... It's hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded ... :45 last night warning me to stay inside, I couldn't really process what was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013