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• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  whether you'll be there). For the parents who will be attending CPW We ... : Friday afternoon at 2pm, there will be a panel of the top student life ... Saturday morning, a panel of current MIT parents will be on hand to share

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was ... Equations. It's too early to tell exactly how manageable this class will be ... it past first semester of freshmen year without being comfortable with

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  who are leaving for college a year from now. Your parents might be ... year left before you have to say goodbye, but they'll be gone before you ... . I wanted it to be totally perfect. 100% perfect - not 99%, or even 99

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  four years of pure joy and pure exhaustion, I will be marching in my ... being busy. It builds character. We are unapologetic academic masochists ... cutthroat behavior here -- after all, there's no point in being rude when

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... have made me think a lot about what it means to be and do good in spite ... nuggets of wisdom or poems (arguably the same thing) would be much

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  and the void. The world feels like what can be best described as ... being able to tell longer-form stories and play around with the media of ... where there was nothing more I wanted to do but be horizontal, alone, and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  time approaching music as a creative outlet, and to be honest, I’m not ... for years, like how I felt trapped between the dichotomy of being a “girly-girl” and a “tomboy”, and how boys got to be multifaceted but girls

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  they might be in a few days, or weeks, or months. I can delay apartment ... associated these adulting things with being alone. In a follow-up post I made ... about it I kind of don’t want to be a grown up. Let me be a child and let

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have to be! Here's some general tips and comments I have about UROP hunting ... you’re looking for. You don’t have to be “good enough” to do a UROP

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  position where they can't care about compensation. And to be honest, a large ... internships for next summer, and to be honest, I would love to do something cool ... everyone to be employed in order to survive, and I'm no expert in economics

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  confusion of being 16 years old, bemoaning perceived injustices to me ... importance of vulnerability. because as we’ve all heard by now, being ... heart again ended up being one of the most healing decisions i’ve ever

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  it being too straight." “I’m the after image of toxic masculinity” "why be emo when you could just be a bottom" "You don't need a bisexual light to be pretty" "Have you tried going on a boy detox? Aka being not

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  was doing, and felt okay with what I was doing, and felt like I could be ... college to be an extended coding bootcamp with interesting peers and ... ’m getting one anyway"]I want to be on the rowing team for one more year; I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  special kind of courage. I know some of y'all may be in my shoes in this ... admittedly limited, this being my first semester here): I’ll miss my family ... helped that I went to a boarding high school so I was used to being away

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  be Gastronomical Engineering, a Course dedicated to making and ... it be distinctly understood that we are not learning to be plumbers ... the youngest of the family which has been brought into being by the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  subject, but the O grade can be converted to a grade of OX” and OX ... charge of the subject will be notified when an O is changed to an OX. An OX ... -carrying grade. This may be done with or without the instructor requiring a make

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  ; Early Action applications should be submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on ... understanding with teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in our office by November 1. They can arrive and be processed well after

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  morning (Pacific time). During that time, I was scheduled to be at a day ... be focusing on my relationship with God), so my I gave my brother my My ... me, it might be a good idea to plan this one ahead. But to each their

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  course, Thanksgiving weekend. I have...a lot to be thankful for. Mom, if you're reading this--thank you for everything. I know I wouldn't be able to be here at MIT without you and all the lessons you've taught me

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  grand total of my high school knowledge is quickly being surpassed. But ... here. Is there a word for being utterly thrilled, pleasantly surprised ... at the same time? Probably not. But there should be. Because how else

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013