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  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  top choice, and a couple of days after receiving my acceptance to MIT, I ... color and appeal of MIT got through to me. We, the admitted students ... allowed to mingle among ourselves and eat delicious cookies. I chatted with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  your vehicle is pointing relative to the Sun, Earth, and other reference ... start to tumble and spin, disorienting everyone on board, and (2) you ... they’re equipped with suites of sensors and actuators dedicated to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  YOU'RE A PREFROSH AND WE'RE SUPER EXCITED TO TALK TO YOU AND I WANT TO ... little bit. I've decided to do a liveblog and chronicle this experience ... pretty much every aspect of freshman life at MIT. I love this school and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  waiting to board my flight to Philly. The flight was uneventful, and I ... in Philly so I'm staying with her to save MIT some money (and sleep in my old bed). I got to her house around midnight and she'd made dinner

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Let’s see those cell phones up in the air” cause every little thing's gonna be alright

  

  Maps and found a way to get there via public transportation. But once I ... this past week, classes went over fine and we're on to the next one ... then I walked some more, and while no magical carpet came to the rescue

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  Howdy folks, First of all, thanks so much for the phenomenal advice posted in response to my last entry about raising siblings to be friends. It's truly something that I'll keep and refer to in the coming years

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  ). Take as much time as you need to make your decision (and if we can help ... securely with your future classmates, and to get emails and screennames to be ... advance, and we'll do our best to show you MIT. Link to the Facebook Group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  slight rivalry between Harvard and MIT. Whenever I'm talking to ... deep down they really just want to study alone in their rooms and go on ... who saw it and that we expected better from a website who claims to be

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  my eyes to the intricacies and mind-blowing consistencies of language…and ... foreign language, and conducted interviews to analyze particular aspects of ... , and saw "writing-wise, there are some problems which you should try to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  break. I made plans to paint, work out, write, study, and a whole other ... 'd be visiting Boston later in January and would love to meet up with me ... closest things I had to a brother and a sister. It was really nice to be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  confidence and about twenty copies of my refurbished resume, and proceeded to ... application to Google, Microsoft and Facebook, all which have freshman ... I’ll apply to XYZ” and wonder, why on earth would you not apply to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  you're going to get another fair shot. Bloggers who were deferred and ... kind of complexity. My advice would be to send in the FUN form and then ... on this entry, and we'll try to answer new questions over the next

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  drew to a close and the start of the season approached, I began to panic ... awesome and supportive ski coaches to show me the ropes – Ben ’07 and JC ’05 ... find words to describe how much better I’ve gotten at skiing since that

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  , em-dashes and alliteration. Why? There is a good argument to be made ... powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make ... poetry, and the reason I took an acting class last semester: to optimize my

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  and more Cantonese words, haha - I have resolved to start learning ... next to MIT) and $0.65 here? 4. Fisherman's Wharf = tourist heaven, 5. It ... bright, sunny, and clear day, so I decided to head into the city and go up

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  've missed (please direct all complaints to Chris Peterson.  thanks) And what ... ... ...and group hugs... ...and much applause. Have a great weekend! ... A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  for MIT, and most were extremely qualified. Our task is to choose from ... ask you to please be civil and kind in your comments in today's entries ... threads, I have felt very good about our blog community and the ability to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  facebook group last night, and wanted to copy it here in case anyone out ... ! * * * * * * * * * * * * * hey everyone! just wanted to pop in and say hi as decision day ... much as a person that it kind of shocks me to look back at how different

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  work at MIT Admissions!? The kid who used to complain about how much you ... group pointed and laughed at him for having to work with me. Needless to ... aversion to STEM continued as I went to college and pursued a major/minor in

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Who’s that girl in uniform?

  

  the stairs (since it actually is possible to be a complete klutz and a ... on to be an astronaut on the next generation of space vehicles. As much ... C/3C Rachel Williams ‘12 My name is Rachel Williams, and I work

  • by ROTC
  • May 3, 2010