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• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  can be doing in the meantime: Making a list, spreadsheet, or Google ... universities to which you'll be applying (including the financial aid ... less likely to make an error down the road. Identifying your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  In addition to being Libraries Week and MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives) Week, this week is worthy enough to be ... too many to list, so scroll to the bottom here) MIT Alumni Dinner -- you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  there might be some that Google hadn't picked up on. My plan, then, was to ... when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I’m trying to be polite, hence being curled on the sofa outside of our room. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  confused. Many are saying, where do we go from here? I forced myself to go to chem lecture today, walking across the East Campus courtyard where ... is the same. With a sigh, I walk into 10-250 and try not to think about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  astrophysics. Coming from an EECS background, I had to Google some of the astro ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  forgetting what day it is eating because you want to keep your mouth busy, not because you’re hungry but because you want to keep moving ... span of moments in which you’re not quite ready to accept the fact that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to ... there are always tons of great options to choose from. But sometimes ... ] alone, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to construct a roadmap of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  forced as I wanted it to be, but that's fine I guess. 58. Ken Ashcorp ... posts. I made a Spotify playlist if you want to listen to them all: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5wP6Lb5qZ0B9NXAjwsFYyl?si=2c079440422a4f32 I've had to make some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  website shows coverage of everything from neurotransmitters to political ... The shadow of my plane, surrounded by rainbows Lately, life seems to be going my way. Case in point number 1: As I was returning to Boston

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  . It goes out to Meder! Solve it to understand why...) Today was a ... officers are expected not to come into the office (where there can be ... at Diesel Cafe. Reading is kind of like studying: everyone needs to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  that are mostly related to sex. Sex seems to be this insuppressible force ... , but if I had to guess, it seemed to be about an affair but not the usual ... the betrayed party would find out. Here, the affair seemed to be the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  .com to force me to write walls of text and lose all of my progress if I ...  police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook ... 's worth $400 now... ---- Looks like I decided to write something at a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most ... to watch a fellow Techie kick butt! Over, and over, and over again ... ! Not only did he go to all these prestigious schools, but he really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  American College Application Process. Most of my visits to college websites ... heading to MIT one hour and then think that I wasn't getting into my ... know the professors will accept it. So I wanted to reach out to you, MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  CityLab — The Atlantic magazine’s website on the urbanized world. Amid covering everything from Kanye’s visit to Harvard’s design school and a birth on a D.C. metro platform to wild architectural proposals and all the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  himself smile. "Force yourself to smile--" he says, "force yourself to laugh ... roast chicken-mashed avocado-jicama sandwich and talking to my sister on ... order something, then walks up to the man working the register, throws his

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  , helped build a massive roof-deck, went kite-boating, went to Google (and ... "On taking a 'Gap Year'", I remembered that I've been meaning to write ... follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  'm feeling. i think the news has also forced me to confront some of the ... been giving me kinda mixed feelings. it's going to force me to confront ... : thinking about this room makes me kinda sad. east campus is scheduled to get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  websites and wanted to help out, and I was the only woman there out of twenty ... -professional clubs proliferate like dandelions—I’ve found it reasonably simple to avoid ... passion. To be fair, MIT may have cultivated a different culture than these

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  MIT, companies ranging from the likes of Facebook and Google to smaller companies ... screen as the narrator's voice warmly speaks "Welcome back to MIT Planet ... students as well as other students from all over the country flocked to MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014