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  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  find it difficult to put myself in that person's shoes, especially since ... with Computer Science, aka [annotation note="I just refer to it as Urban ... , robotics, and public-policy—I can draw connections between disciplines to

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  cross-reg, but I didn't want to overload myself this semester. It's about ... Cabot Science Library to make sure our cards worked. They did! It was ... Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  less of it, i can allow myself the opportunity to stop. reflect. and ... that it is not a big deal. but to pull out of the details of the context ... sad? why is it that i don’t feel entitled to sorrow?   the first

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  yesterday, and to be honest, I was a little bit unpleasantly surprised. It ... what I get. It’s going to be hard, but at least I know I got most of the ... can look forward to a more detailed, photo-documented post about 4

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  and permutations of our cohort, duking it out (I mean, as close to ... (Nashua, NH). I used to think I was obsessed with things until I read her ... cat person who used to think her dad’s actual name was “Dad,” short for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  it matters. Abi then ran off to the Whitehead Institute to take a tour ... Hippocratic Oath to black-market organ harvesting - yes, it's very intense ... Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to ... have gotten it if I wasn't willing to take the shot, and already learned ... MIT community, there are many ways to do it, many roads that lead to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  what it means to actually learn from mistakes. Relationships, personal ... shuts down at about 5 am and yields to sleep. Not worth it (#15). Despite ... because it was not related to my major(s). I am simultaneously pumped and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  applicants? I know it says you are required to live on campus in one of MIT ... comments. I do read every comment, and it makes me happy to see a blog ... while back, I posed a challenge question to you (about two thirds of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  college. Besides, as in the good ol' childhood times, it’s always fun to meet and get to know people by playing games. It’s no secret that MIT is ... ! Auuuhhhhhhrrrrrahhhhghh! Come to think of it, dodgeball is really like recess. Considering

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  street to the Kendall/MIT T station around 1:45 and easily made it to Logan ... -off and go. But hey, it moved fairly quickly. And it’s two days before Christmas, so it’s excusable, right? Cut to Line #2: Security. So I stood in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  dry-aged by “kombujime” – wrapping it in kelp so that glutamate can ... texture of alligator The mustard mayonnaise is used to complement the ... Bonjour. It’s me, Jacky, again. More than a year ago, I wrote a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  ? Probably it will end in ice, if we are to believe this year's Nobel Laureates ... pieces to the cosmological puzzle. The teams used a particular kind of ... line, at which point he "knew it wasn't Ikea," the Swedish furniture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the MIT Interview keep b r e a t h i n g

  

  :08 Our deadline 0:22 What happens during an interview 1:30 What to wear 2 ... ???? 5:41 Quick tips for the interview

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  lists. It's impossible to avoid getting added to many MANY mailing lists ... they lack clever names it's usually pretty easy to recognize patterns (or ... allow people to contact a large number of other people whom all have a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in ... that the MIT Admissions Office does not endorse the use of dope.  Unless ... awesome violinist (Rebecca Zeller) who had to switch bows after each song

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Visit to eBay

  

  pay homage to the product that made it famous, eBay has a case full of ... Unfortunately, Carter's job is so awesome and amazing that he can't tell us anything about it. Despite his secrecy, we still took him out for pearl milk

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  generic moniker. It's used primarily to refer to the hackers of 5th East (my home). Sometimes it's used to refer to anyone who leads Orange Tours ... -world adventures and social-engineering, and they use 'hax' or 'haxxed' to denote the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  type? 1. You can learn how to cook. What better way to learn how than to live in a place where you can have a big, awesome kitchen with personal ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.

  

  mass of the frustum, etc. I can't even begin to describe what joy it ... As the semester begins to wind down, it comes time to turn in ... numbers into an equation, and then typing it out to make it look nice

  • by Bryan
  • December 7, 2005