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• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  . It is my job to be a resource to you all when you visit campus, and our ... more agonizing) - that is all actually just a portion of my day-to ... students can increase their odds is to feel confident that the college they

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  perhaps to come from the verb alo, to feed, nourish, and develop. This is ... starters. Sooooo many. And they all seemed to imply that it should be rising ... good thing, since there is not a lot else enjoyable to think about right

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  doing the work it is supposed to do. Good luck, and happy writing! ... primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant. It's not to be wowed, or feel like we need to read the most unique

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  're going to college" is the message she got while was growing up. "It wasn ... , “which is not uncommon for them, but it also speaks to his personality — he ... important it is to have a deep and varied knowledge base and a solid grounding

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  questions is to just go with your initial instinct instead of trying to ... they like skiing because it forces them to confront reality - it’s easy ... behavior in a given setting is to experience that setting i liked that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  Well, it's pouring rain outside, and I managed to get myself up at 8 ... running horribly late because I decided it was too windy to ride my bike ... something clean, you're gonna have to clean it yourself. I occasionally go on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... large black tea. It says the answer to problem seven is 15.7π m ... ’t know what half the variables mean. 1:00 — I go to economics class. It’s

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  northeast, which is a travesty because it is the one steak sauce to rule all ... ???? I applied. I interviewed. And now, I'm back to where it all began. What a world, amirite? Except it took me so stinkin long to come back to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  Arcturus — how are you introducing it to incoming frosh? Audrey:  Arcturus ... ] Amber: So Arcturus is a pretty new club, yeah? Tell us about its formation ... development. It’d be an awesome opportunity to make connections in the robotics

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  than by number. I am so fried right now that it took me a full minute to ... Saturday. I am very psyched that Sam is planning to join the marching band (you're still going to do it, right?), so long as no pictures are taken

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  – what if it’s only possible for me to be okay when I’m not actively ... right, maybe I don’t quite know how to be productive in a way that is ... high school except now I’m actually prepared to take it"]8

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  trick question, aren't you? It isn't. And the right thing here is to be ... Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... to eat. We ended up deciding on Bartley's as we walked past it - hey

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  , let it be noted that Cambridge is about to celebrate it's 800th ... of individual motivation and tenacity to make it through the year ... Cambridge it is far more likely that people retain material over the entire

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  failing the course. 7.012 is a GIR, which means I have to pass it to ... attending. That escalated quickly, so let me restate it: I stopped going to ... format, and it’s only mandatory to the extent that attendance comprises

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

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  opportunities that await. Since our desire is to make the best possible admission ... essential aspect of the college admissions process, it is somewhat problematic that it frequently seems to be part of a continuous feedback loop. Allow

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  better. Because every week is a countdown to Friday. But that's okay. It ... long in too much detail. To this day, when I think back on it, I can ... our year committed suicide. I wasn't very close to her, but it still

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  blog was super random. It probably is. But we just really wanted to get ... you know that it’s okay to R E L A X. Notes (1) Bordeline is a mural ... to do it had our freaking amazing friend not helped us from 11pm - 2am

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  answering many of your financial aid questions. You (or whoever is filling out your financial aid forms) should definitely check it out. Mitra is ... managed to blog. Use his feedback page to send him get well wishes! Daniel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  old 3 Doors Down albums and I really like this song. Which is why it has ... . Anyway. Life at MIT is moving right along at its usual breakneck pace, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Really, my only complaint is that I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  it takes to go from 0mph to 60mph"]0-60[/annotation] is 2.5 seconds ... and debugging code. Most importantly, I’ve realized how easy it is to ... for how to handle it, which is why they come to you for help. Emotional

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025