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• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  your dorm room (in any residence hall), except for microwaves and hot ... -dropping in its home makeover-like looks). Do you know anything about it? (JKim ... . I feel like it was used in some previous i3 publication (the handbook

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  finals week for us here at MIT. So to all who applied, whether you get in ... their application package in the snow while chanting, "Accept me, oh ... time, I took those words and put them in the shelf of "things I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  giving a lecture in the Dowse Institute in Cambridge, and shall have time for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the ... man read in a very distinct voice quite a pertinent and touching reply

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  Last week, six of MIT’s most illustrious professors gathered in 26-100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke ... the dinosaurs). After fighting two world wars over it, in 1946, the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  couple of examples. Take for example, 18.02, Multivariable Calculus, a ... down as hours in class, hours in lab, hours outside of class. Hours ... . Now here's my take on all this (feel free to ask around for other

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  II comes in! I took this class for one main reason: the final project ... submit my PCB for shipping after working on it for three hours in lab one ... [annotation note="an icon within the mechanical engineering department for not

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  mode that I have to exist in, at least for now. This Thanksgiving break ... for the first time in forever. And, I feel that maybe, just maybe, that ... 't belong here, or like I was just in the cosmically wrong place. I didn

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  ’ combined. Of course, this was typical: in high school, I perpetually resolved ... materialized and my daily calendar just symbolically slouched untouched in the ... September rolled around, I set my alarm for an ambitious 1 whole hour before

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  I grew up in Elgin, IL and I'm a huge White Sox fan (sorry Astro fans ... 'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had the chance to go to games one and two in Chicago this past weekend with my

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  biggest reason was that, having been stationed in Hawaii and Guam for the ... I remembered that I submitted my application in January. Last spring I was both working in the Navy full-time and attending college full

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  think about the marshmallow in front of her, or how you’re not thinking ... dangling some brightly colored yarn in front of a hyper cat. I know it helped ... ="specifically the Google one it’s so bright and happy!"]Minesweeper[/annotation] in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  places for women to travel alone in the US” and “affordable oceanside US ... the ocean, partitioned by the faintest, haziest stroke. In front of me ... .   1 There is an innate human fear in being by yourself. Survival

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You’ll start knowing where things are. There are only so many intersections in MIT for you to explore. You’ll eventually know where each path will go

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  " He's talking about how, for example, in Eric Lander's Bio class (human ... what he says . . .twice. Woo-hoo! Here we go, we're in 26-100 and Ben is ... , getting a feel for the demographics. There are no international students

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  =[elementary,middle,highschool,freshman,sophomore,summer_this] for x in range(len(history)): for y in range(len(history[x])): print ... .189 Intro to Python to get up to speed for 6.01 in the fall. Even if you ... . In Python, whitespace matters. In Java, just be sure you have brackets

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  , and help figure it out, or have suggestions for what to do in the future ... meeting most of the goals we set in the bullet points at the bottom of that blog. But there's one in particular I've kept turning over in my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  -page in-depth analysis on the tone of the main character’s dog’s whimper ... some random strangers speaking in German on the train if you don’t know German??!! (I recommend Duolingo for all your language-learning needs

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  think it's kind of hard. OH, CHRIST. I HAVE NO CHANCE OF GETTING IN." (I ... .) In response to all of these comments, I'd like to deliver a poorly ... Mr. Antunez, a new teacher who had grown up in Spain and Argentina and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  wear in public, right? After staring directly at her for a good five ... about barbecue." "Hm." So, in order to make up for my lack of cordiality ... Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008