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• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  also don’t get to randomly see students I know in the hall. I also miss ... (both at MIT and on the road) and have been known to tear up a bit on occasion when I get to a story that has special significance to me. I believe

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  copy of the How To GAMIT (How to Get Around MIT) on the first floor of ... from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  , do you feel better about how to think about your decision? D: I feel ... great head on your shoulders. You’ve already been accepted to a bunch of ... uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  get relative to my peers onto whether or not I'm taking full advantage ... 's worth of work into today and tomorrow because I'm going to SXSW on ... start-up. As part of my Course 15 (management) curriculum, I get to take

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  off. Improve makeup skills - Accomplished! I learned how to put on fake ... work on it. Get a summer 2022 internship. - It would be great to be ... fit this 2020. I learned how to properly lift things and I became pretty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  on the fly. Some get to this break point and realize they can ... your vehicle is pointing relative to the Sun, Earth, and other reference ... start to tumble and spin, disorienting everyone on board, and (2) you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... outlining your plans to our office: Office of Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get in, please continue to hold your heads up high. We didn't have room for ... A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  might add: please allow your interviewer some time to get back to you ... applicants to contact their interviewer (and, if you're applying for regular ... are conducted in your home area (not on MIT's campus) by an MIT alum, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  get very busy this time of year, respect their time! Try to get your ... If you are applying to MIT this year, here's an update on what you ... 10) to schedule your interview is fast approaching! You can find the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  is the time to get your my.mit.edu account and get started! Oh, and by ... however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of ... a lot of time this spring thinking about how to make it more

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  me that is still so, so bitter that you get to move on with your life ... your demons than to write them away."]it's taken me days to even get ... you think you have some kind of tether or control on me, that your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  books and get back to my on-campus family. Update: My flight did not ... ecstatic to get back to campus after a much needed break, to see my MIT ... if you're ready to accept it as one (cheesy, yes, but also true

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  on my own. I don't know how to make it easier to ask for help, either ... Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... around, or openly be on their phones during class, or talk to their friends

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  just go to 7/11 and get a spam musubi. Any shrimp truck on North Shore ... 'd wake up at 5:30am to get ready for my 6am-2pm work day (Hawai'i is three ... bus to the 24 Hour Fitness center on Kapiolani, work out, maybe grocery

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  said "Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy." I'll add to that only ... your classmates (like they do on the magic school bus), they are ... speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  bed. I have to get on the T tomorrow morning when it opens at 6 AM. ... , which will take a lot more thought and I will get to at a later date ... wish on your card. I usually eat breakfast bought from one of the grocery

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Spring Weekend Concert Announced: Fabolous and Lloyd Banks

  

  , where a national musical act performs on campus. The headliners for this ... know Lloyd Banks from 50 Cent's crew G Unit. The concert will be on the ... in Boston, it's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  powerful abilities (pun intended). After fruitlessly trying to get the thing ... to get some serious work done. No YouTube, no Grooveshark, and, most ... productive all semester -- and perhaps ever. How naïve. I was able to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  'm just excited to see how I did on these tests, even though I know I didn't get- OH MY [edited for content]." Yours truly somehow managed to receive ... clueless about college, so he was like "Well I don't get it, but I'm glad you're

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005