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• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  in the postal mail with your waitlist notification (decision letter ... . Bombard our office with way too much stuff. Be pushy. Be sketchy. Let your ... aid? You're not required to enroll. We'll give you a financial aid

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  would be a class about manipulating time to your whim through various ... it turns out, managing your time is a fairly easy process. Here are ... you go to schedule your week you don't have to try and remember all the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  up a lot of your time. Here are my top ten ways to earn money at MIT ... year you're smarter, have money, and have a new addition to your resume ... in need of test subjects. No, they won't pick through your brain or

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  postcard coming in the postal mail with your waitlist notification (decision ... much stuff. Be pushy. Be sketchy. Let your grades drop. Not choose ... have to go to MIT? What about financial aid? You're not required to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  in one of those neighborhoods where your elementary school was one block away; your middle school was three blocks away; and your high school ... your own puts a different filter on it all. In high school, my mom didn

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  just numbers. If there's a letter in front of your building number, that ... campus, so if you're out there exploring the vast, unknown frontiers of Cambridge, you're better off consulting a map or getting laughed at by Central

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  to go off of or do you know what you're doing like the back of your ... extra choices won't diminish your chances of getting your first choice ... go ahead and put the other two as your second and third choices -- they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  email address is. If your question is a general one, I prefer that you post it to my blog so that others will benefit from the answer. If your question is very specific to your case, you may email me at benjones at the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  -tired, you know what that means... picture entry! If you're on dialup, you ... sending your kids to a city college in Boston--apparently, MIT has hired ... better than my more sparse dye job, shown above. Oh, I can be like your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  readings on-line, and submit your essays by email. A few weeks later, the results are posted. These results analyze your English ability and determine ... results said that I "may take any CI-H or CI-HW subject during your first

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  need to think about where you're going or what your options are. You also get afraid, and have to cope with risk and the limits of safety and your ... 're in, such that whenever you feel you could slip or fall on your back

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to keep your mind as single-pointedly focused on whatever you're trying to ... lives complaining about things they don't like. So, you're adding power to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write about your life, which seems easy as pie, but everything you write is ... sample blog posts. You find out if you're accepted right before school

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  preferences about the domains of your required recommendations —  we want one ... [annotation note="If you're worried about any things we might wonder, or inferences we might draw, about why and how you chose your recommenders, one

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I ... . What does your week look like?  [Monday 3-4pm] ROTC Class: Yes, we ... like your typical high school classroom, except wayyyy cooler because it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  beyond your doing. You've given it your all so if you do well, celebrate ... . Understand your weaknesses. You really will end up taking a nap if you work in ... spots. Go explore. Take breaks when you're studying. No one can work at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  short. If you're like me, when I was about to graduate from grad school at ... sense of anxiety over which of them will be yours - A sense of ... challenges of your life so far, and a sense of numb, "is that it?" malaise that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  into a sprint, run from the student center with your lunch in hand to ... arms in the air, that extra hour of sleep, savor the feeling of your ... lounge with your friends. Sometimes, the person you’re speed walking with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  found that your busy lifestyle leaves little time for reading for pleasure ... and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer The Thing Around Your ... Helen Oyeyemi The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi What Is Not Yours Is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  Picture for me, if you will, all your favorite celebrities. These are people you're in awe of, people you follow on Twitter, people you hold as your role models. They are rock stars and movie stars and talk show hosts

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013