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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  don’t think “being an alum” will hit me until it’s the first week of ... , I love to tell the story of how I never imagined coming to MIT ... science in K-12, but for a number of reasons (including the architecture

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the ... those AP classes and all of those activities." Here are two of the ... the work of the textbook and the work of the imagination. Too many times

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  forth between having joined a sorority. I get upset because of the archaic ... double standards between the two and how some of these really old, boring ... said, I didn't join DPhiE for the sake of the title of Greek life; I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  MIT's regular action deadline is January 1. The Office of ... 'd like to use this entry to answer some of the common deadline ... overnight any part of your application. The teacher evaluations, secondary

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  of the few orderly things in our room... ... Good thing we're living ... beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very ... bad day when there's the faithful five ounce bag of honey barbeque

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest ... on a good day) and commuted into Cambridge, resulting in the traffic survivor I am today. My UROP was in one of the biotech labs and this

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  experienced person there!” ...all of the interns were Ph.D students. “Rachel ... weeks in, we released the first iteration of the software as a tool to compare stats on some of the most popular Olympics topics (who the heck is

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  Your MIT Education book for SFS, and the Application Guide, Best of the ... will never see the light of day. And this is something that I’m still ... times, the only other set of eyes that see my projects are Kellen

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Who is the President of MIT?

  Sally A. Kornbluth is the 18th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kornbluth follows L. Rafael Reif, who led MIT for a decade and stepped down as president at the end of 2022.
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few ... tempted by the fruits of Silicon Valley or otherwise find their passion ... ). One can of course see that from my resume, but the ring has occasionally

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the details yet. Now, I'm two weeks into the semester and in the thick of being ...  linguistics UROP, which I think is super hecking cool. Right at the end of last

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  of guilt, pushing down the desire to grab my paint brushes, because I ... yesterday afternoon, as I thumbed a hole in the last of my familiar, paint ... nothing during my sophomore year. The bottom drawer of my desk is filled

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  of the only hub of activity for miles, I waited. I was crouched, poised ... coordinated a flanking attack of the enemy. They fought valiantly to repel our ... decisively took out the last enemy unit. The whistle blew. "The score of the

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  with the life of the Admissions Counselor at MIT, here it is: We get ... ? Well, the answer is that taking vacation in the peak of application ... along the edge of the pink sand - the concerns of the world blowing

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  Admissions and have been doing my full-time gig for the Office of Digital ... the biochemistry of farts. So, you know. Grown up stuff.) Wake up ... Cards with the boyfriend on his janky couch that is somehow missing 60% of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  home, I sat in front of the computer for a good fifteen minutes ... got that message from the infamous King of the Internet, Chris Peterson ... and wonderful people in the world, some of which are also going to MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  ' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw this pretty little thing in front of me: Ain't No Rest for the Hungry. After taking ... fresh quinoa. There were at least five tables full of food and drinks. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  the sun and in the cold played lots of games got back into hitting ... of our lives the only way to give life meaning is to do things you ... ~~~ cut off all my hair moved to city where the sun is out every day

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  , living group, activity, or current area of work. I think the official ... real word, I just don't like it. There are plenty of good networking ... I will promptly get on a bus and go to New York City. The MIT Alumni

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  upperclassmen in charge of the club, people I’ve come to call my friends, laugh ... for the amount of activity I’ve done in the last four hours. By the time ... of those weeks where I turn in the Pset half-completed. I hate doing

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019