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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  friends were going to be. All I knew is that I was coming to MIT with one ... , I'll be honest. I went to high school in the south, and you know ... without a fraternity, I knew I'd be able to make friends. I saw Animal

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  , Orange County, Florida... though I will be holding a meeting in the "real ... approaches, like regular maintenance, may be even more valuable, since prevention is always the best cure. "We have to learn that things have to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  to be able to keep all five, but if it is too much work then I will ... classes are as follows... 5.12 (Organic Chemistry): This seems to be a ... 'm hoping for this one to be better. I'm happy that I seem to remember more of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  the first and last time ever, and it ended up being something like the ... this class should be back down to its usual difficulty level of "very ... should be going about twenty hours a week without exposure to natural light

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  School’s… in Excitement! Passion! ...Class?

  

  may be a liberal from the OC, but that doesn't mean he doesn't like to ... .100, Aerodynamics. Although this class is going to be a time sink (Adam walked in ... 'm sure he should be excited about taking 6.041 -- I gave him Adam's old

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  risks + be truthful + be fearless + you are awesome! be yourself And with ... -Called Life's Angela Chase: "People always say how you should be yourself, like ... just being myself in my life, right where I am, is like, enough." So go

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  place, like everyone is excited to be there. There's nowhere else like it. A Red Sox game will be one of the highlights of my MIT 5 Year Reunion ... onto a large screen above the orchestra. This will actually be my first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before ... enrolled at MIT.  We deferred 7,738 applicants;⁠ these students will be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... have more school ahead of me, but it just will not be the same. although ... had to explore a lot of different things. i will miss being able to go

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  the truth— you want to be needed so badly that you think you might choke on it. you need to be wanted so badly that you think you might keel over and die. your grief at being neither splits you open. sometimes you

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  . We’re so used to trying our best, succeeding no matter what, being the ... idea of being vulnerable in any way —physically, emotionally, etc.— makes ... completely solo). And on top of just being injured, handling everything on my

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  as jobs at MIT being counted as part of the award; basically stuff I ... necessarily intended to be generalized, everything should be fine.) After ... "]psychoanalysis,[/annotation] these issues stem from an inability to be assertive the correct amount at

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  go places to work online. That being said, it is doable. It is ... internet. The internet can be amazing. I would use the Chromebook my school ... be a nightmare. If you’re a senior, and you really want to get your

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  them, haven't you? Do the stats and titles make you want to be their ... part 2) Be authentic. Be original. But if you need to choose, be authentic. A Yale admissions officer said that once. Write strong. Be

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  , but I'm glad to be back. Bryan: Cool. Friend: Weren't you supposed to ... least be Bryan O. '07, '12? So the purpose of this entry is to somewhat ... my research and being able to continue looking at unanswered questions

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Campus dorms can be considered more traditional in terms of college ... " mold. Basically, West Campus mocks East Campus for being "weird" and East Campus mocks West Campus for being "normal." Good fun all around, and I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  for this summer being done, I haven't quite settled in yet. In fact, as I'm typing this now, I should be packing for my Chicago flight that ... sophomore year. I'm trying to be more conscious about the time between my

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  be pretty rough for me. To take the classes I wanted, I sort of had to ... me was like, even if it’s hard, I would be able to make it if I work through it. Right? If I really wanted to do this major, it should be

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  imagined college in high school, I imagined being in one of these huge halls ... .[/annotation] Was it an experience I could be fine with? Of course. I would probably ... would find my niche. Yet I had lingering worries of how it would be like

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  is still the smartest person I know, and who I wouldn’t be here without ... this would be an especially good time to recognize my mom for her ... always been my strongest advocate, and pushed me to be a better version of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018