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• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  has to be perfect. Sure, quality beats quantity, but the quality of your ... make you happy, because these tend to be the things that matter the most ... point to watching movies even if you forget about the details, and for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  on mitadmissions.org on the freshman class profile and the admissions ... Trivia: This year's admit rate was 11.9%. What was the admit rate for my class, the MIT Class of 2000, when we were admitted in 1996? [answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  less than 48 hours to my next 6.006 midterm, I sit here contemplating the ... Blue, (which will now be referred to as RWRB) a romance novel about the ... determined not to let the book die like that, and I joined a Discord server

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  enthusiast, lover of her homeland’s native birds, and always on the lookout for ... , California, who reportedly has the same music taste as everyone in LA, wants to ... ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  from across campus joined together to work on the worst possible ideas they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a strange object was placed on the facade of lobby 7. I'm not really sure

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  four hours straight with my friends to 2010s bangers, which was the most ... the day—I felt like a sandbag... On Sunday, the fevers kicked in ... simply did not have the mental energy to complete within the next few days

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  't shake The feeling I might make A difference To the human race ... the ... econ PhD programs go on to research/teach as professors or employees of a ... , health care, etc. And for people who want to take UROPing to the next level

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Does the transcript submitted on my QuestBridge application count as official?

  If the transcript on your QuestBridge application was sent by your counselor/school official, it fulfills our requirements for an official transcript and no further action is needed on your part.
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  't have to be deep or profound or whatever. Vibes are important. It's 100% acceptable to choose based on whether people recognize your Homestuck jacket ... identify with. No one at U recognized the Homestuck jacket that I wore

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata ... for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit ... cold to type, but hey, that’s the outside for you. The class I took over

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  [annotation note="The day before classes start, everyone meets with their advisor to ... . It feels weird to be doing things for the last time when I already sort ... into and out of East Campus for the last time. I still need to take

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a ... fascinating, not the least because I get to see Winnie-the-Pooh cartoons (in ... . Just a few hours ago, I put all our study sessions to the test as I took

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create ... were admitted: welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: keep on trucking. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a particularly funny exchange in the comments of a recent post. It's a constant struggle between bloggers and prefrosh over whether the "FIRST!" approach to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  fact. I hope you can find the best environment to await and process the ... to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day and many many more here ... !) Just do it later by The Oatmeal How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  guys, but the phones are kind of all busy right now so I have to wait a ... 's trying to make a good impression? More to come! 8:45 pm Just got off the ... relatively long streak of getting automated answers! So the telethon seems to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  pictured above.) 2.) Notice how the first page says "Nathasha, help me," on ... these pathetic notes to the whole world and why I am painting a rather ... crossing the river, and you look up to see the dome glowing at you, staring

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  Interconnected.is chanced to stop by the store to buy a handle for his old Corolla ... does a disservice to the small miracle of beauty that is this movie and ... abandoned. Caine loves arcades. So last summer, while home on break, he began

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT -- MITES, RSI ... open exclusively to high school juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is ... Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) is a rigorous six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only ... , since I had one on Friday afternoon and the other is Thursday morning. You would sort of think that kind of time would inspire me to study 5

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005