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• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  “uh oh”s. Heard one guy say, “dude, that had to be, what, the first pass ... was about to start playing Ultimate Frisbee. The teams stretched ... pulled. I sprinted ahead, ready to receive the first pass. My team

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  deep fried Bertucci’s Pizza? We will have a selection of the finest local ... food will be available for people who want functioning arteries. This ... day before that we invited the early pre-frosh arrivals to a welding

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I ... substantial statement of purpose that will make the admissions committees fall ... school than it is to get into PhD programs in biology. And because not as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  (who is now actually married to Adam) feels the need to be all "Sooooo, I ... consider the stuff I've learned here to be easy, but if I look at MIT as a ... that story for The Tech, or to be Rush chair for the second time in a row

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it ... /principal to leave spaces blank on the form. Please ask your counselor ... if available). We also accept the high school transcript alone to
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  describing to you the journey would be a faux-pas on my part, so here it begins ... I decided to stay the night, and it turned out to be the right ... unmarked Toyota Matrix to New Hampshire. All I remember of the drive was

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  things from different angles and in different lights, also being willing to ... proudly holding their diplomas for the rest of the undergrads to envy.   The commencement speeches started 9:45 EST and, being three time

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Planned Mail Date: March 11

  

  -wracking it can be to wait, but please give the mail a chance! If you don't get ... being put together in parallel with everything else going on. If the mail ... In case you missed it: We plan to send freshman admissions decision

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I ... and also celebrate Sukkot (yes, I know I'm not Jewish, but not being ... should be my largest meeting of the year. My best estimate is that we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  went across the river to JP Licks tonight. I love being on campus during ... , lightbulbs, and cleaning supplies under the sink. I thought we'd be done moving ... you won't be moving into your final dorm room until after the final

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  .  A Tale of the Widest Tim of All the Land Part 1: Born to be WIDE What ... who has dreamed to be WIDE since Day 1! On the day I was born ... -packed sleeping schedule allows it!    To be or not to be… WIDE? That’s not

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  "MIT" - but I suck at shaving. Hope you enjoy anyway. The real shave will ... Waited until midnight so I could post on the 11th officially (EST, anyway) - we'll be mailing in less than 24 hours. Wow. For me this is a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  figured it wouldn't be the worst thing if I stayed a little closer to home ... , the class would be flown to Istanbul for a week to present to the ... pretense about the amount of work that still had to be done on the trip, I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  some students abused his time by never actually submitting the letters to ... recommendation. Ethical? Of course, the answer was "Not ethical." But I wonder what ... students living abroad who will receive packages from MIT and posted the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  " ~Selena Megha '25 (poster edited because the blogs are not supposed to be ... are in vogue, and we're not allowed to paint the walls anymore, but we ... will just knock on my door (or not) and sit on my beanbag and hang out

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  since then. Holla to the MA, NY, CT, NH, MD, RI, NJ, CA, MI, IL, IN, MO ... met this weekend!! :) (this is why I like to ask you where ya'll are ... to the campus!). Just like what President Hockfield said at the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  really grown up. "I feel like in high school you really used to be the ... again. I was going to be seeing him for the first time in maybe 8 months ... I was going to treat this differently. How this was not the same. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  for the next ~12 hours or so I will try to answer any question you ask ... readers will probably be lazing around digesting like me. So let's all hang ... This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script to help me keep track of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  the full 2008-09 blogger roster. This is going to be an exciting year ... 12.5% "blogger admit rate," it was almost as hard to be selected as a blogger as it was to be selected for MIT this year (11.9%)! Before we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  to stress. MIT is a difficult place - but you already knew that.  The ... than your grades.  It happens to everyone sooner or later, if The Tech ... place where top minds from across the world come together to learn and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012