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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  and potentially prompting them to not apply to MIT. The truth of the ... use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That ... twitter. Facebook, I do use, as many of you have discovered. I get about 2

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the nomenclature of a certain telecaster's forum. Now I don't care much for that ... recall how the topic came up, but as we were talking, I was applying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  of the fact that you applied to MIT, one of the most selective schools ... bit of free time to write an entry I wanted to write/post this past ... that entry. First: to those of you who got in - congratulations, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  During a pset party last night, one of my hallmates called her own ... degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or ... that impacts millions of strangers. A biologist can publish a paper that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  philosophy that I would apply to a bunch of schools, find out where I was ... sardonic words of the ever-quotable Winston Churchill, "This is the sort of ... now made it's way into my blog, like several other songs I can think of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  aspects of their academic and student life. The survey is essential in ... enhanced while a student at MIT? How do you perceive the sense of community ... , and the results of any research or analysis using the data will be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  Hi all, Many of you have already filed your application for ... things: You can now track the status of your financial aid application by ... Action admission decisions are made in mid-March. You can still apply for

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  a decision, or you haven't even applied, I'd prefer if you stuck to ... , because I just thought of this and now I'm late for class. Anyway..) THE GREATEST DISAPPOINTMENT OF MY LIFE part two, which took place two days ago

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  applications to fill out. Then, of course, there are regular applications to complete. And finally, there's the scrambling to apply for scholarships ... -Help portion of your financial aid, at least at MIT) while at the same time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  of selection. Things are going well; for some reason I'm enjoying ... guys are just awesome and inspiring. Probably a combo of the two. In any ... applications from people who have no business applying to MIT to liven up

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a classmate about the class of 2019, and we agree that college acceptances have ... reflections): "6. I have a list of all the applicants whose stories really

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  -every-birthday-card-in-a-cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess-the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high ... and decided to give us a bag of things she no longer needed, but thought

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  tl;dr: As of this fall, any member of the MIT community can use Turbo ... example of a well designed civic technology: solving a societal problem by ... . Making this happen involved a lot of students, faculty, and staff working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  personal tumblr blog, other universities, random google searches, and of ... grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... ! Please be aware that some of these links are from tumblr and other such

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  , relaxing after a year of MIT. Took a short family vacation to Nagoya, Japan ... dealing with the genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic nematode. Took weekend trips to NYC, Montreal. Saw my first Fourth of July

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  . Levitt teaches a class on the economics of crime at University of Chicago ... recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... laundry until after finals week. :D A lot of this behavior is motivated by a sense of resignation. Common wisdom around MIT says that freshmen

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... becoming an MIT admissions blogger: you must be scared of the dark. Bold, courageous students need not apply. Last night, after the requisite parties

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  've been walking with one of my friends at night to Random Hall where she ... Infinite is filled with excited chatter and slowly walking walls of tourists, and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  Simmons Hall as any other Sim - it's simply that I'm part of another living ... Despite being the middle of winter, on Friday the entire Boston area ended up getting drenched in an unexpected deluge of rain. Yes, you read

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008