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  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  . BRING IT. Where did all of that energy come from? I'd say it came from ... 't get me wrong: I'm fascinated by aspects of all of the sciences with ... 's a much more academic that started out by learning the language of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  , we have been experiencing document processing delays of up to two weeks ... I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  lumps of unsimply simplified terms by dousing everything in a small angle ... be off by either a factor of 2 or a factor of sqrt(c). Did you know ... impassively toward night, the last hanging breaths of August condensed into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or ... current crop of graduating seniors but is also engaged with the the next group of rising seniors (and other underclass students) who are anxious to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  "]year 12 english.[/annotation] such a funny play and one of my favs by far ... MissBehaviour and MIT MoveMENTality, and they really ate. the energy of ...   the classic ABC, one of two campus-wide parties hosted by B3rd. i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  biographies of Alia and Matt from RhodesScholar.org (links mine), followed by ... last year when one of our then-senior bloggers, Melis, was named a Rhodes Scholar. This year's list of winners includes not one but two awesome MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  by three dimensions: a) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; b) increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or ... be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.” - 11th

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  Trivia: By population, which US states are most and least represented ... students? [answer at the end of the entry] Beginning Sunday until the end of ... to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  the Marvel UROP in one of the blogs written by Cami ‘23. So I reached ... projects can be driven by a student’s passion and energy to explore their ... Today I'm hosting a guest post by Jade Durham '25, who — alongside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  it's one of several options that MIT applicants have to send us ... my first year as an Admissions Officer and I was really impressed by ... by training (MIT-educated in Course 2) so I wanted to know all the

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  existed, and I'm kind of glad I didn't because I think I would have gone nuts. Now, I'll admit I was kind of shocked by the number of posts that were along the lines of "Chances at MIT." I guess I was just a little

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  ="aligncenter" width="600"] the cover of Infinite Issue 9, shot by Kidist '22. model ... in-progress photos of the clothing, but the process was pretty simple ... shoot in the basement of East Campus. I was inspired by the different

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  (x/2) of them are getting done; a semester of scraping by in everything ... energy to look around me and feel joy. but already the lists of things i ... part i it's been kind of a hard fall. all mit students are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  Petey had a mighty nine-year run of writing this post, but a king [of ... 's my turn to take up the mantle of "person who announces the admissions ... Center, most of my summer is spent in Framingham, where: I go on my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  great. * By chance, one of the Protofrosh visited during a special 5.112 Principles of Chemistry lecture on the formation of stars by Professor Anna ... occurrence. The unit was prefaced by the account of the world's first and only

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update

  

  I guess the folks who staff the phones in MIT Admissions received lots of calls today, with many references to my blog. Below are the FAQs ... significant updates will be reviewed by an admissions officer. I'm trying to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  inner hipster by listening to music your friends have never heard of at ... sports gifs, mainly supplied by Buzzfeed http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/the-best-gifs-of ... It's that time of the year where everything winds down and you might

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  choose their matriculating institution. By this time, most of these ... the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose ... .   Why MIT, by Allan K. '17  (2017) Excerpt: none of the reasons i

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  will be an exciting month. By now, I've read my first folders of the ... ? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  " because as much as you think you know about yourself, by the end of the ... You may think you have a pretty good grip on what type of person you are. Let's face it, you just spent the last four years of your life

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008