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  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  illuminati responsible for the common core 2) I'm trying to learn to spin dragon staff 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to let your dreams TAKE FLIGHT What does it mean to be an admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to ... you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to ... to MIT, and we have offered early admission to 657. These students hail

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  It is standard practice to leave MIT as quickly as possible upon ... passes to exams. Whether this speaks to ultimate time-management skills or the urgent desire to leave this place whenever possible is subject to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to ... you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. This year, 7,767 students applied for early admission to

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

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  Wait wait! Stop! Hold the presses! I have one more thing to add to ... printed and are sitting in boxes waiting to be distributed to YOU when you come to the Student Center to check in tomorrow*? Oh no! How will I ever

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  meetings for most of these groups. Not because I don't want to, but because here you really have to pick and choose what is important to you. I do commit a...healthy...amount of time to extra-curriculars, but outside of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  First of all, a big thank you to everyone who replied to my request ... -depth entries about projects as I decide what exactly to write about! In this ... to show the typical setup, furniture, and layout of a mix of rooms

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  traveled to Chengdu, China, and eventually more and more cities, I got to see ... about the minimum number of T stops you’d need to pass in order to go to every stop on the T without leaving. The T is central to the college

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one ... responded that it was “good.”  That turned out to be an unsatisfactory

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you can ... 't really seem to get rid of. it gets in the way of your coherent thoughts and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  go from midterm to midterm. If we’re lucky, they go from pset to pset ... lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of ... the past few months, I feel like we’ve really gotten to know each other

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  might want to be bloggers to SHARE YOUR SPECIAL TALENTS What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? Here is the opening paragraph from the blogger training manual that Lydia and I send to all the new bloggers during

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I won't need it after getting up so early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to ... plenty of things to keep me occupied today, and all of these urgent reasons

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  offers 57334534923 (not a hyperbole) convincing reasons to attend, to me ... Frank Sinatra in New York, New York: these vagabond shoes were longing to ... shoes to go to school there. Not one bit. But if it was anywhere in

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  I took the red-eye from LAX to Boston -- the flight leaves LA at 9 ... 'm still supposed to be leaving for Maine in 25 minutes. I haven't decided yet whether or not I'm going to repack or whether I'm just going to take

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  I just wanted to say that please don't give up hope, and I know that ... you choose to go - even if it's not at MIT. I want to share with you a story. Please take it as you will. Best of luck to you as you seek out

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  morning I had the incredible opportunity to attend the announcement and ... to me late yesterday afternoon: "what are you doing between 10-11AM tomorrow morning?" I told him I had to teach recitation, so I wouldn't be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  As a way to tie up our visual arts discussions on the blogs, we want to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the ... ways, from Borderline to Art Club to Animation Group to Freshman Arts

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  Try to find me in this picture! Just kidding, that’s a trick ... volunteers to man the Tim the Beaver costume that weekend, my response was, naturally, YES YES YES YES YES YES PLEASE!!! ME!!!!!! I managed to tone it

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015