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• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  family, your community, and your safety. You will not be penalized in the ... Hurricane Michael, which struck the United States last week, has deprived thousands of  people of power and property across the American

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  . Hopefully this entry won't be as long winded as the last - but I did promise you an entry on How To Be Cool and Study Abroad, and it just so happens ... here instead of studying for the TWO exams I have on Tuesday. This way

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  IAP thus far. We will see what else the month brings. ... chance to talk about some of the things I've been up to. Mystery Hunt: I hunt with Project Electric Mayhem (can you figure out the pop culture

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  inner workings of the GEL admissions process; it’ll be interesting for ... ’ve always wondered what the GEL staff looks for in its students, so this will ... for every night in January. During the semester, I usually grab dinner

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  the many parts of the admission process in that, here too, you are being ... a fee waiver that will be accepted by most colleges. (MIT actually ... of philosophy, MIT is committed to the idea of equal access to higher

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  (you kinda have to be a nerd here). Now is probably the best time to ... Final year at MIT is done! I don’t miss it… yet. But the realization hits all seniors at different times: seeing friends for maybe the last

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  it all. All this being said, I’ll will definitely travel again in the ... continue to be definitely did not come to me very easily in the beginning but ... face and I hope that my story will give you what I did not have. The only

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  campus tour will ensure that you graduate. That would be overlooking the ... ? Some of you may be wondering, what’s the point of visiting in the first ... asked that question to could be the person who reviews your application

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  didn't need to take. (I know there will be classes that I won't love in ... semester has been going. It's been incredibly busy, almost to the point to which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This blog is about the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  any more. Many exams will be scheduled close together, sometimes on the ... travel, this might be the next best thing to help keep yourself abreast of ... year will likely be in a course you might not like or care much about

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , "Whatttt. How can one person be so. incredibly. happy?!" I quickly came to ... , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the morning, will bring me a box of chocolate (Twix ♥) and offer me a hug. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Updates CPW, admitted students parties, the "telethon," and financial aid.

  

  the red CPW box on the left side. Also, tonight MIT students will be ... A few quick notes for the Class of 2010... The deadline for ... Washington, DC). If you went to one of the admitted students parties, send your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Just 5 Days Left! Mystery Hunt begins in 5 days.

  

  cannibals and put to the following challenge: Each shall get one hat of either black or white (unbeknownst to them). Then, they will be asked in ... . Note: They are not allowed to talk to one another once the hats are on

  • by Bryan
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  examination week will keep me from my appointed duties in the lab), but studying ... 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

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  to stress the fact that next fall, my senior fall, will be my last ... dejected about not being able to take either class… until Rihn the wonderful ... anything this semester. It's going to be so worth the Courseroad overhaul and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  , the milkshakes will make you feel like my high school friend Allison ... Biodiesel@mit! Now Joe '08 will be my friend again. YOU GET VASELINE! ... changed my name to Samsam Siam. No no, I've actually just taken all the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  hobby for me, and I assumed I was the only person who would be interested ... probably start singing "Five Years" (lyrics can be found here, on the author ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] For me, one of the greatest things about MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the ... The S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents team The Deathmobile team (This will make a ... front may or may not be the CEO of Hasbro ;) On a sidenote, we made a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  the school year, will your group be in town during summer, or will you ... were being kicked out of our dorms. Due to this, I was under the impression that finding a place to live during the school year would be easy

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  into the place to be at night. Over a hundred people gathered around a ... experience that I will not be forgetting any time soon. ... , running among the children, the buffalo, the haulers. This field was just

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012