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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate ... (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer ... . Ultimately, the faculty members on CUP chose the four of us! Rona: I chose to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel[/annotation]of ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... the names and emails of EC's Medlinks (students who are trained to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  else might need to make sense of the essay. Like, you might know that ... about you? Does each part contribute to the bigger picture of you that you ... week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  deprived butt that week. Those of you who choose to come here in the future ... buzzing with some exciting new information. Prof. Grimson, head of the ... ordinary changing of the guard though, as Eric Grimson is no ordinary faculty

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  start. FSR is over the span of four days, where you get the opportunity to ... and talked to the Potential New Members myself. There was a lot of ... ’s recruitment team spends a ton of time over the summer to get everything ready

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  that the Maryland Institute of Technology? Sameer had moved to London ... , waiting for the blogger application to appear. I knew that one of the ... 's...pretty famous. Eighth grade Anna: Oh...okay. Sameer promptly sent me the link to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get ... have gotten to do some of the coolest stuff: go swimming in some of the ... -related incident. I used to take my pet rats to class in the hood of my sweatshirt

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  Aero/Astro department that he's one of the best undergrads to come ... NASA shuttle launch) was presented to him by one of the aero ... in the case of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II -- wait, are you all too

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , that I would need to pare down my focus or I'd drown in the torrent of activities. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept my offer of ... 's fragments and, in the context of the story, are able to piece together what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... ; sometimes, on the road [annotation note="I keep a stack of guest passes to the ... 's almost October, the Z is closed to non-campus staff through the rest of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  again. There is a tunnel from lobby 7 to the basement of W20. Farther ... the rocks are starting to melt. A group of identical Sloan students in ... blink. You’re adding lettuce from lobby 10 to the top of the pile. You

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... taken earlier. So I'll try two approaches to make the point: one of them ... would react in each of the three outcomes, and I kept comparing myself to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... to go myself to reveal the wonders of Chemical Engineering to excited ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  't stick exactly to all of the words, but you'll get the gist of it. Best of ... into the goblet of fire and hope that you’re chosen to be a part of the ... always-inspirational things to say. Here are a couple of my blog posts that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  wrote the type of stuff I read, to connect with my crazy genius classmates ... , that that semester was the tip of my career and I'd never be able to ... the rest of the world before I could choose who I wanted to intensely be

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  only the parts of the material necessary to hand in a completed ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how ... of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  day when I was the free-est to blog was also the second last day of ... outside the room and attempt to find the latest version of the Asymptones ... room, but none of us have the courage to actually ask the previous class

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  hackathons -- video wall posts, and the 'like' button, to name a couple of ... overtime in which developers stay up all night to work on projects outside of their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and ... , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For ... I consume. Another relatively recent addition to the Central Square

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers ... technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004