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  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  predicted for your sign or not, the pieces of advice for every sign in this ... friendships, we wouldn't be ourselves. When I was last home in NJ for ... Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  , think about the living arrangement in the dorms carefully. For example ... This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... FIT: I cannot emphasize this point enough. No matter how (in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... we have wacky (modern? postmodern?) buildings, the best river views in ... ending. (3) Because in between classes, I might eat lunch in Killian

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  what the right fit felt like until I visited MIT in April for CPW. Long ... for everyone, but in the end you can't imagine yourself anywhere else ... ask myself is "am I in the right place?" How do we know when we get

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  dignity. A waterproof laptop sleeve for your laptop to hide in when you ... common area for the night. However, common areas on campus and in labs are ... beleive in Did you beleive in cotties? and so on for several hundred pages

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  you will live away from your parents for potentially the first time in ... , or, in this blog post, your home for the next four years—it seems to me ... and that you choose it for reasons you believe in. You’ll be here for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
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  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  me into adventures that would make for great stories in front of a ... creative community, decided to take me in. I'm excited for what's in store ... microcontrollers instead of late night baking in the chaotic Tetazoo kitchen for the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... 've helped out in admissions. And I wasn't even looking for these jobs--I just ... , or some guy raised his hand in recitation and asked for a note

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
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  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  . For five years that room was home. In August it will be someone else’s. ... city above. Ia, Ia, Cthulhu fhtagn! Photos attached. Then, for 6.815, we ... corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying to college is an important process for many people, and I'm not quite

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  out of time for. I felt pain as I handed it in with only one solution ... extensions for every assignment in that class and, apparently, taking one or ... These past three weeks have been really hard. And I'm sure that for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
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  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... shadowruns are dot hunts. In a dot hunt, you're looking for these small ... me dancing with Draco in the Yule Ball, as everyone cheered wildly for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  about physical distance, or at least not for me. Brook E. ‘18 and I, in ... into, for example, and time to participate in the greater Boston ... and collecting used skateboards for Megabi Skate in Ethiopia, which I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
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  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... the book launch, my dad and I stayed in New York for a few days, and I ... like-minded in their capacity for diverse forms of ingenuity. It was a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  expired. I’d bought too many pairs in anticipation for college. {First ... . 96 hours seemed vast. Not in retrospect. Take out 36 hours for sleep ... in East Campus waiting for me. In 30 days, I will fill it as a wide

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
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  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  numerous committees and won countless awards for his excellence in teaching ... Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (or EECS for short (or '6' for shorter)) has been appointed as new Chancellor! This is no

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions ... work needed for this year, Chris had another producer in mind--Cowboy L ... asking around about rooms in Simmons, she let us use her room for filming

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... grade. In fact, for nostalgia or for lack of more complex software, you ... fear, for I am here to teach you how to trick yourself into thinking that

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  they had their own agenda for that year. I devoted my gap year mostly in ... if I was selected to MIT, or else if I had gone for a degree in ... tell me what he had been doing in the time since. I thought it was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  into mere 250 words. In order for me to see what a 250 word word limit ... neglected in the county hospital for over two hours, unable to flag down a ... -Ray order, Mr. Park searched in vain for Radiology in a blinding flurry of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009