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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images ... to grandma, and a certain jolly old elf that lives at the North Pole ... have so much more life experience than my kids have and I can envision

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  butter), and go to the market to buy fabric for skirts/sarongs. I have not ... so exciting to be here finally that the bug bites and jet lag and ... piece chicken and small fries meal. Now we're off to change our currency

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did an MIT grad start Khan Academy?

  created to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. ... Salman Khan '96 (18 & 6 and Class President!) and MEng '98 ... relatives and friends were requesting help with their academics, so he started
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  I'll spare you and just add it to this entry. I was exploring the ... much fun MIT can be. Being the blogger that I am (willing to spend far too much time blogging and on the internet) I decided last year that I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  close by, so it's not too much trouble to get fresh fruits and vegetables ... A lot of you have written me to tell me you've voted, and it ... have worked equally hard to get this far, and I'd love it if you could

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  should’ve been kinder and gentler to myself instead of intimidating myself out of things so much. I shouldn’t have felt guilty when I needed to ... try my best to be forgiving towards myself, but I still slip once in a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  failures of the AC unit for the car leading to a few occurrences of smoke and ... . Finding how people can fit and work together was crucial to this company ... satisfied that they will be able to work together with each other and with us

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our ... must pass a swim test in order to graduate!
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  ugliness. Fulfillment proved to be elusive, expensive, and less compelling ... group name to “Harvard Class of 2013” and posting “Welcome to Harvard!” on ... and delivers comparatively cheap late-night fare, which turns out to be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  around for my French friends to give me rides, and I go to Köln as much as ... travel to Bonn, so I went down there with my roommate Kunal and every ... guide or anything and decided to just wander around the pedestrian zone

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  new and colorful as they once did, to the wide-eyed first-year moving to ... existence, to make sure they kept going another year, and for more years after ... . i wanted to give middle school and high school students a chance to go

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  , and has heated the surrounding sidewalks up to a temperature of 138 deg ... ?) -- each of you come to us with a different story, and that's mhat makes this ... , I don't care about how much financial aid we'll have to give you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  uncomfortable couches on which to spend the night (ps. MAD doesn’t fare much ... accordingly I scheduled myself to arrive at 9:00 at the airport – an hour and 20 ... -in machines, and one representative looks like he’s ready to murder a group of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  here to learn" vibe to cope with imposter syndrome, and that's generally ... environments such as homes and restaurants. I have to take one more CI-M, and I ... because a meat blob full of electricity and chemicals is telling me to do it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  fewer questions about admission, we encourage you to start reading and ... .Information from the UAAP.Information about housing and the housing lottery.A to ... Office to the Undergraduate Advising & Academic Programming (UAAP) office

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  to sleep. i remembered how much i loved airports and hated flying. my ... one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don ... wanted to do a big task XYZ. they split it into three tasks, X, Y, and Z

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  up to, what was happening around the train, what I was feeling, and a ... -conductor score to the musical Heathers (more on that later), and a friendly seal ... currently listening to: Rachmaninoff, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini And we

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does the MIT admissions process work?

  After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel as though your ... apply and when you receive your decision? We understand that not knowing the details can add a lot of stress to the waiting period, so we
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  past 10 years (CME) and I am proud to be one of the students on the ... MIT, I know that MIT creates all these study-abroad and exchange ... able to let all the readers know more about MIT and its awesomeness

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  SO HAPPY, but there wasn't much energy in me to get overly happy as ... got to go to Washington D.C. for a week and I met the most intelligent and wonderful people in the world, some of which are also going to MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012