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• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  into MIT. That's the main statistic you need to be concerned with. Yeah, yeah, there's an application fee, so don't apply if you don't want to ... come to appreciate the small things and not be overwhelmed by the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  Early Action updates Please continue to be patient with the ... to worry if you clicked submit a bit after midnight, you will still be ... updates The deadline to schedule your interview if you are applying for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  (called the Interfraternity Council) and sororities (called the Panhellenic ... contributed to the team”s point total: Sunday: - Cake and pie baking contest ... ball. Find the gum ball using only your mouth and the first person to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  , and it'll be up to you to decide what goes on there. If at the end you ... the best. If accepted, congratulations, if not, you are going to be ... with the result. If you are accepted to MIT, rest assured that you belong

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  -making clock begins. It is difficult to make a decision if you don't know the ... aid counselor who is handling your child's case. Call/email if you have ... car and it sounded too good to be true, you'd be suspicious. The same

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  this, I failed to account for the fact that I am now in the most ... ’d be nice not to stress at the last minute, but it's so nice to be able ... don't have to do the most, yet. For now, I can be content with just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  the breadsticks; call back Eat food Wait for breadsticks; try to concentrate on assignment. Fail It is 2:34 am Eat breadsticks Try to ... Try to concentrate on assignment Fail Browse memes Try to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  to handle. The cold though, especially up in the mountains, is ... would be right. We in the outdoors club even called off our "Winter Circus ... be any winter! But if there's one thing to describe Boston's weather

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  gawking at the height of the buildings. It feels strange to be in the center ... - college in the Northeast was a promised land. I wonder if I ought to have ... medication to kick in. This time was feverish; I felt as if my consciousness

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  , especially in the face of having their party privileges taken away. To be ... , end up executing the silent dance party, there'll be many pictures to ... to Susan Hockfield, but she never RSVPed). Since our return for the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  failed me! But why? Linear algebra to the… rescue? TL;DR, rotations in 3D ... times to achieve the desired orientation. There must be something else ... allows the player to build some really crazy contraptions – from amphibious

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a ... . At MIT, it’s not enough to be vaguely smart. It turns out you have to ... attempt at pretending to be smart. Getting on campus didn’t fix my tendency

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  to kill the time.[/annotation] The plan is as follows: I will be ... Chicago. That is, of course, if everything goes to plan. By the looks of it ... , yeah, and Kevin McCarthy has failed to win on the first ballot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  check out the hosts! If you've set your mind on somewhere, apply to a ... age, such as 21 or 25). The bios are also a great place to find if a host is off-grid, or if you will be expected to camp outside or eat only

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  called Edmund Berkeley and asked if he wanted to develop a market research activity. He said: "No. If you want to do it, do it on your own." Over the ... percent of the research fee Тƒо in advance. To my amazement 12 companies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  Report (USNWR) released its rankings and MIT fell to the number 7 slot, tied with CalTech. I'm not going to bother complaining about the well ... ; how these surveys fail to address criteria important to underrepresented

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  about the idea of being the head engineer and running up to my boss after ... Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to ... discussing how it was "sorta easy". I failed. Badly. Geez, I can't seem to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... reason. The ~week after we got the notice to move out was... a lot. The ... decision: Go home to be with my family, or bug out with some friends who

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  …But I never thought it would be so easy to practically fail. Almost ... !!!) multiple ideas to solve a key problem. Yeahhhhhhhhhh--- I don’t like the ... things MIT has been doing to me: I finally buckled down and memorized the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  disable access to the motion picture(s) listed below, or if it fails to ... 't find anything. What's the fallback when YouTube fails to provide adequate ... copyright holder to possess. If this step cannot be taken promptly, please

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008