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• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which ... little with some questions you should have in mind as you're selecting a ... does the academic calendar look like? How easy is it to get a research

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Paris or Nicky). Headed to Loomis Chaffee for a school visit. Didn't get ... why certain kids get in when others do not. This is a big goal of ours ... . Arthur gets to travel a lot for work, including a recent trip to Nigeria

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  once in a while. OK I may be an Internet addict, but I am not alone. According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet ... aware of this problem in my life until our trip to Seoul in my last week

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... worry about this. In a case where we need to see a mid-year report and it has not been received, we will personally contact your school to get it

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  is strange in a different way; living in EC, you get to see so many ... ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight ... stuff, impostor syndrome is fairly likely to cross your mind in East

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  deadline to remove from your transcript any class in which you were currently enrolled. In the spring Baker House usually drops a piano off their roof to ... the one that gets sent to people"]internal transcript.[/annotation] In

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  prompt for this essay was to write a letter to your mother. Now, I'm not ... You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning MIT application essay. I figure it's getting to be around crunch time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  to live in a house with a yard, and utilities, and your own kitchen ... /reforms/goings-on in the Middle East, a Japanese student group to hear about the ... your time, to interact with people at different levels within a company

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  Caltech"). We landed in Baltimore close to 7 AM Saturday morning, after a ... shuttle to a Zipcar station where we were greeted by the Volkswagen Golf my ... , surprisingly enough, a nontrivial challenge in itself), we looked eagerly into

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  getting to page 104 in The Giver, making me the only person at MIT who was ... life. So, while I'm excited to get a six week paid vacation in Germany, I ... possibly I'll fall into a canal in Hamburg and get eaten by piranhas. Just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  with your app in committee, and I can't recreate or try to determine the ... school in the world to get into to begin with. I can use that fact to try ... 't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a ... everything but sleep to write. I had a few from earlier in the summer, so I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  badly sprained and a small bone in your foot was broken. Courtesy of a ... hobbling around on crutches, and didn't get to take the swim test with your ... your forehead, you approach a lifeguard and announce that you are here to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  : what it’s like to be a freshman in East Campus, what it’s like to get ... bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for ... ones I will notice. I found out yesterday that I'll get to be a blogger

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  in me was hyped to hear that. The arboretum is a good ~5 miles away ... ] 10/10 amazing place to spend a day. Go picnic with your friends, or ... spent a couple of blissful hours there. The area is HUGE—281 acres, to be

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  As promised in my last entry, it has been quite a week! Tuesday ... = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of ... concepts that I couldn't quite remember how to do and a couple that I just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  adequate level to pass xyz and abc classes in your time at that school. A ... MIT in your sights shows that you must believe in yourself to some ... they did get into MIT by some miracle-lightning-strikes-a-unicorn-and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8 ... myself in a Red Sox uniform taken sometime in the late 1980s: While ... 't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  [/annotation] in the morning; picking a shirt, jacket, and tie to suit my mood ... founding member. To me, MINCE represents a message: that even in the busy ... to enshrine moments in time. This semester I took a [annotation note

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  to go be a writer! I'm going to write my essay right NOW!" So I went ... made a list in my head of the things I've made in the past few months. Berry crisp. Too many phone calls home. Problem sets. A five-page letter

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013