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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  from 1969 (or so the label said), and it looks like a bunch of old ... current bloggers asking if anyone was on campus this summer and would like to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you ... . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions ... when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was ... sky. And so my college application season began. My interview was at

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  or her work, and if it sounds like something you might be interested in ... , and grad students will post openings on this website, along with their ... professor or lab doing work that looks cool, and get in touch with them. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  the final project and make us feel more comfortable in our coding skills ... standard ones and/or code we've been using in class. Other libraries you ... , implement, and create a presentation for our final project. I teamed up with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  : We sent Kevin our plan, and he had some advice for us. Start earlier in ... least, the train came pretty quickly, and then we were on our way! CJ ... ’t sure whether or not to stay on or get off. Our plan said we needed to run

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  were waiting to ask if I got in or not, and then they were crying, too ... the couch at home and hoping I'd be able to load the website before ... [z] enough for MIT". When the website loaded and I skimmed that page

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  regularly since I was 10 or so, and my mountain bike was far too small and ... , and the varying degrees in between. I always recommend driving (or ... . Only worn when Mobbin’ Stay posted to our website for all upcoming

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  's our job to make lots of decisions quickly and well; it is our job, in ... like cooking, cleaning, or exercising, and we take mandatory breaks ... , and try to structure our non-admissions related work (like redesigning a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  -selection controls our future and the admissions process." So there are generally two ... Committee, which has nothing to do with lectures, series, or committees, and ... 's causation or just correlation. First-years and FSILGs Of course, not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  speeches word for word and designs are on our beautiful website (made ... tickets were either white, red, or blue, and before they said the number on ... to ring sales, and purchased our rings! I can't wait to get mine at

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by ... or art prodigy because my brain would still be malleable and I would ... best or one of the best because distinction is a clear standard and goal

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  to make sure the issue is probably uploaded to the printer and to our ... pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper ... their problem sets. In light of that, one of our writers (Rebecca '14

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  what our experiences are like, and trust each other to mean what we say ... leader, and the church was our life. My family twelve to fifteen hours in ... would be printed in our yearbook and displayed during our end

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  that a lot of our usual systems would have to be changed. And directing ... to discuss our schedule for teacher registration, and what we're doing ... group, our online education director, even our website administrators. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  , code, and launch an idea for an app. We design our own problem statement ... , we have a block of time to either do assignments in our curriculum or ... management and take ideas from there to see how we can better improve our app

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  requirements) are able to train other students and/or monitor the use of the ... and grind and get that coin or something 💸💸💸 ... high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  or for worse, no one seems to know. 32 years after Mr. and Mrs ... official website, and here's the Wikipedia page. This year, the Ig Nobel ... In 1965, the U.S. government awarded George (MIT Class of ~1923) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  report to our office any conduct that may result or has resulted in any ... fact more broadly and explain our reasoning as to why. We have long held ... protest is being held, explicitly or implicitly, over the heads of our

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  , and is totally awesome!). Our group, alongside twelve or thirteen other ... I had never seen before, and after lamenting our collective ... 17th was a Saturday, and it started out as a good one. I was awoken by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013