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  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  ) They are mailed via regular mail for domestic students and via DHL for ... likely receive the NBM® a bit later to allow time for this. 4) The vast

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  you considering? Leave your thoughts in the comments... For those of ... coming up quickly for you, too, and I hope that you've found another school ... provide that country's second largest city. For example, if I said United

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  . Went back to my office for the first time in 2 days; checked email. Akash ... Google Maps for an hour or so. Met up with Lorelle and headed to the BSU ... for dinner. From there I headed to the Mr/Miss MIT pageant in time to

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango lassis for the staff, to go along with the Indian food we had from India ... set to go for international selection, less than two weeks from now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  that has come before you. I'm wondering how your affinity for the web ... you as it might have been for my (pre-internet) generation of college ... advance for any thoughts.

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of ... syndication in various formats: RSS, Atom, etc. Check the right-hand column for syndication feeds. Changed the design to allow for easier reading of entries

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  2,822 applications

  

  nearer. Look for me in the crowds Thursday morning at the Macy ... the weekend reading applications! No Thanksgiving break for us admissions officers... Anyone else have interesting plans for Thanksgiving?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  fulfilling for me. Many thanks. As you may know, I do my best to answer every ... personally). Read on for lots of Q & A. Before I do that, though, I'd like to ... this year). Stu's blog posting is closed for comments, but some replies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do i have unsolicited tips for you

  

  sorry not sorry']they didn’t ask for help nor prompt the discussion at all ... training program, made specifically for first year students. By completing it ... -shirt, and MakerBucks ($50 stipend for maker supplies). This program is

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  look for in future cities I live in. biking [caption id="attachment_77488 ... .[/caption] In Copenhagen, Denmark, everybody bikes. A guide for a MISTI walking ... for cars as possible. Instead we will ride bikes! We do in fact ride

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  significant enough to merit a platform of its own. For those students, our ... good fit for a portfolio.[/annotation] If you’re still not sure, just ask ... (for this cycle: November 1, 2021). If you’re applying through Regular

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  long showers. “Oh, I gotta remember to audition for a capella!” “I could ... could work with. MIT is a unique place, and it can’t be home for everyone ... found paradise” or “I hate this fucking place,” and, honestly, for most

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  I don’t give myself enough credit for the things I’m doing well, or I ... discouraged. And sometimes, the best thing I can do for myself is have enough ... -hour-long conversations with people I barely knew. It was awesome. I found a UROP for next

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  for the header software design class that assigns 15-hour-per-week psets ... of high school, but I mostly design and sew clothes for myself. If you ... for and everything else. And yet...or maybe because of that, I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... figured I'd blog because I've been quiet for awhile and there are some ... an automation engine (think IFTTT, but for your phone) and there is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... , study for the exam, and/or go to Career Fair. "Is it worth?" I ask upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the ... take.  I showed up for Writing Science Fiction on the first day extremely ... met with the TA’s and Student Support Services and I finally asked for a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  eating.  I have been a vegetarian for about four years and I've had a fairly weak immune system for what seems like forever, but it had never ... 've started to use this website called calorie count which does all the work for

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  label for it. This label helps sort our entries into the different ... 'd been getting a lot of questions lately. Lo and behold, while looking for ... &A" because I'd like to answer your questions. My goal is for this to be the one

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... blue, which was really one of my major criteria for my purchase: portable ... meaning to read for ages: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006