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  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  truly matters to you, no matter how nontraditional it may seem + take ... apologies to Bonnie Raitt, Tim Berners-Lee, and Marshall Herskovitz. It was ... of my essays were within word limits, and yeah, it wasn't great to cut

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  hide no longer–I was in it for good, and I wasn’t going to stop. And that ... of a place or event I've been to. I think it's nice how they come with ... I don’t know how it started exactly–a nice lug of canvas here, a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  When it comes to housing at MIT, you've got quite the array of options. You want to explode things and paint crazy murals on the wall ... one of the cultural houses, like Spanish House or French House! Want to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  campus. It's therefore extremely conducive to studying...and for taking the ... I'm the kind of person that likes to make lists - partially because I ... the classes I want to take at MIT, all the people I want to meet some

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  fellow men and women. It took a competition like that to remind me of it so ... as the sun struggled to illuminate the lifeless region. In the center ... to act, my eyes focused directly forward. Out of my periphery I could

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  ,000 Kwache each, which comes out to roughly $3.75). It was incredibly sunny ... dinner before taking the minibus back to our guest house. It is unclear if ... Yesterday was my team's first full day in Zambia, and what a day it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  be reviewed and added to your application when we receive it. Remember ... home, it's best for you to interview with them. If you haven't yet ... posted here.  The deadline to contact your EC has passed for early action

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Weekend Update A couple FAQs and others tidbits.

  

  . 1. If you send in your reply form to MIT telling us that you're coming (and if you have decided to come, please do send it in!), we will reply ... to get more folks to watch it, since the director/producer is a friend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me ... mouthpiece stuck in it perpetually, it doesn't fit in its case. So I had to ... from my presentation, though... hard as it is to believe. Anyway, I went

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  Computer Science. It’s been a year since I came to MIT, slightly over a year ... .01: Introduction to EECS. It’s a challenging hands-on class quite unlike any I ... it’s also an exciting class. There’s a lot of room left to you for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  40 minutes late. It's kind of disconcerting to wake up on a bus in ... like this anyway, it was raining when I got to Maine, but I nevertheless decided that it would be a great idea to play ultimate frisbee at Joe's high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  brimming over with the effects of this phenomenon as it applies to all ... , because one of the students at the seminar suggested that we change it to ... in the universe?" pointed to it, and asked "can science answer this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  . According to its founder, Internet entrepreneur Ben Nelson, Minerva is ... education to those who cannot presently achieve it is extra awesome. And yet ... : who edited it? Who allowed these two sentences to appear so closely

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to ... event, they pulled together to bake a lovely little apple pie; it was an ... it should come as no spoiler to say that WE WON APPLE BAKE AGAIN

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  I didn't know what to write this week, so I made GPT-3 do it for me. If you haven't heard of GPT-3, it's a language model that uses deep learning to make human-like text, based on whatever prompt and parameters you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the old application posts to remember how to hire bloggers 3) oh right

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  Here’s a little tribute to lobby 7. Since my start at MIT in January, I’ve walked through this lobby nearly every weekday to get to my ... ;   It’s a magnificent lobby all on its own, but even better for the

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  face to the interwebs. I have replaced it with that of the guitarist ... Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of ... students do to manage stress, so enjoy the brief lapse into generalizability

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  , it is too late for any supplemental materials to be considered by the ... anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... Hello! I wanted to take this opportunity to provide an update on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  waitlist again this year? It is too early to know. In a week or two, we ... people accepted a place on the waitlist. But it just isn't ethical to keep ... the waitlist. Thanks to some good yield prediction this year, using the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006