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• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  about the students' choices. With all respect to these students, I ... with the results. You decide where to apply and, ultimately, where to enroll. Colleges do decide whom to accept, but if you are smart about where

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  (read: cheap; there were no cheap tickets from Columbus to Boston last weekend) and decided to create her own Parents Weekend this weekend. She left my brother (age 16) and my father (still not old enough to cook for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  Tuesday, but it's dedicated to Tuesday, because on Tuesday morning I pulled ... prisoner was taken to the priest. The priest would watch in the night sky for the star of fire to reach the zenith. Once it did, the priest would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply. Often, phone calls about this to the Office will be routed to me, since I ... to another district with more opportunities; some will send the student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  to open for cancelled, so all the guards ran around the waterpark going ... ...haha) I came home to find the envelope waiting for me in the front hallway. My dad asked why I was excited to see the mail and I said, "Oh well I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements ... possible class schedules for colleges I didn't even apply to. Something about a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  . Every minute that passes by feels crucial, like not a second is even to be wasted. I feel this immense pressure to do it right, even though I don ... back to Boston, because my time there really made me appreciate how much

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  I appreciated having a non-judgemental environment to experiment with ... suggested forms for each week, but it was completely up to us if we wanted to actually follow the form or modify the form to our liking.  1. i did not

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  correct. basketball is a complicated sport and there are many exceptions to ... are way too many kinds of defense for me to be able to cover them all in this post, so i won’t try to. instead i’ll just say that the most common

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  one criticizes me for them. No one goes up to me and says, well, the ... move it to a different file. No one says, this is a very personal blog ... vision for where it's supposed to go. No one does code review on my commits

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to ... now” If you had said that statement to any of my classmates from high school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  ) program gives MIT undergrads a chance to do meaningful research in cutting ... Harvard, and me :) I'm really excited to be working with this group this ... to research that I like a lot. At any given time, there are multiple

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot ... getting your big packet in March you come to CPW and get to explore all the different dorms. After visiting and getting a feel for the dorms you get to

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the ... from place to place. I'm dead serious. --- Happy May! Yay. It's the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  necessary for girls wanting to stay in all-girls dorms to ask for orientation ... to know if you want to stay somewhere that's not so that they can put ... . Anonymous asks: "How many people on the waitlist actually get to go to MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  with Writing to form CMS/W, which includes the Science Writing program ... . According to CMS/W: The curriculum in science writing is designed to enable the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  can link it rather than having to figure out how to word it every single ... at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only ... extremely hard and this school has pushed me to limits I didn't even know I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the ... ombre color that matched my winter jacket. It was also a relief to have my hair in a protective style for a few weeks and not have to think about it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  post series* For as long as I can remember I have wanted to travel the ... wanted to be when I grew up and I would tell her about my plans to traverse ... still want to travel the world but am now thinking of pursuing medical

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  part 1: impact One of my strongest core beliefs is that the answer to the question "what is the meaning of life?" is not "to change the world ... easy to be sold that story, especially at MIT—to be told that your job

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024