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  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  choice that I would be devoting much of my time to school and labwork, and ... happen to be amazing). Monday and Wednesday nights are usually dedicated 5 ... recitation to revise problems or figure out problems I couldn't do on my own

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  . But it’s more than just famous. To MIT students, it’s a symbol that we ... one of those events that all sophomores look forward to. During the ... ’s ring that they had been working tirelessly to create. It’s a time to get

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  ...you'll have to wait a few years, and see! Thank you all so much for following ... starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... , Delta Phi Epsilon (or as we like to call it, DPhiE). Within my sorority, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  starting a weekly film club, and of course, there’s so much Facebook to keep ... Israel: http://benbellinisrael.wordpress.com/ I was trying to think of a ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  . For those of you that don’t know S.A.T is a page for Asian people to come together and talk about their shared experiences, so I decided to do the same for black people at MIT   It seemed to be something

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... from time to time about events, dining hall swipes, free covid tests, and ... used to keep every single email that came into my inbox out of frosh

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  year and moved to Bangalore. I wonder how much these things would have ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... hadn't heard from him since Pi Day 2011; he revived the old thread to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  , things have been crazy busy. (Perhaps at some point, I'll eventually get to ... some balance to the conversation. I remembered a guest post I wrote a ... was actually in response to an admitted student who was deciding whether

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... something, then try to force myself not to think about it, then fail, then

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the ... , dancing) be valued as much as a techie passion (like building stuff ... as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  bugs and reconfiguring later, I managed to make it much easier to use for ... -worry-inducing gadgets, I realize just how much MIT has permeated every part of my life ... brain has been rewired and my physiological response to stress and sleep

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In 2003's The Recruit, Colin Farell's character was said to have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  values and priorities. Maybe we share too much, or are trying too hard to ... virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  , we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook, to that weird, weird group of people. After finding out that my name had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later, I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my

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

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... this year! It's Cthulhu, rising from Rl'yeh to crush the unsuspecting ... had to make an automatic panorama from some images that we took (we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  diminutive of parka, as in ‘I-need-a-parka’ weather), though due to severe jet ... documenting his work completely rebuilding Gus, which (he told us) he planned to drive to Cambridge if admitted.   I still have the first email I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Folding While you wait for decisions...

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cynic This is mainly a reminder note to myself.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 27, 2012