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• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  . You can hear part of a Random Hall tour in the background As even these ... all heard the Chorollaries’ beautiful renditions of the Engineers ... expresses a lot of prefrosh’s current feelings. This is quite

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  discovering and applying knowledge for the benefit of society remains at the ... of interesting discussion after my last post, and lots of good questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  hours. An alumnus of my hall is actually the record holder for the Green ... How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever-present presence of our preexisting expectations of admissions blogs, unburdened of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  , dumping the gajillions of photos I shot before 3:30pm on Saturday. I can ... and center at the CPW Opening Ceremony. Three members of Alpha Phi Alpha ... videotape their cover of "Here In Your Arms" (solo by Kevin Schoenfelder, I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT ... 've ever wanted to get out of the wind more in my life. While my thick, wooly pieces of outerwear had been fine at home, they don't cut it here. There

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  some of my advisees and helping them pick their classes. A number of them signed up for a new discovery subject being offered by Course 7 ... description reads: Lectures by leading experts on the fundamentals of COVID-19

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  opportunity for free clothes is an offer that should always be taken up. That Friday, I rushed out of my dorm with my friend Caroline, knowing that I was most definitely not the only undergraduate excited at the prospect of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  the most general sort of advice I can offer. If you (mostly juniors, but ... in terms of general advice, let's see. There are no specific activities ... traditionally-thought-of-as-MIT-ish things like science fairs or math competitions

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  Ever seen the first few minutes of Legally Blonde? MTV's reality TV ... popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just ... . Sororities are Greek letter organizations that offer lifelong membership, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  ? This: (video credit: Tony Eng) The official description of LeaderShape, as detailed by MIT's Division of Student Life, is as follows: MIT ... within a diverse community while developing skills in areas of problem

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  away from MIT put a lot of experiences into perspective, and applying ... introduced myself as a freshman one too many times. Now, I take on the task of ... beloved members of my living group who have now [annotation note="I miss you

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  A couple weeks ago, an excited exclamation was heard, as one of my ... ). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a glimpse of sorority life at MIT, witnessed some pre-test tension (and post

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate ... that you tried your best and that is all you should expect of yourself ... based off of the numbers you listed on your application because that

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  of Your Friends How to Avoid Being Set Up How to Pin a Boutonniere ... Properly Apply Cologne How to Save Your Date from Choking How to Buy Someone ... of, in my opinion, are these student faculty dinners. **2007 Student

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive biases along with Daniel Kahneman) asked 24 of their colleagues

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  List of Rejected Halloween Costume Ideas, 2008 Edition 1.Washing ... machine in Random Hall's basement, so I couldn't wear it. Thus, my intent was to create an political statement about the troubled state of Random

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  yourself." -A wise person ---- "When you are not actually applying to ... student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy, that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  always-astonishing Simmons Hall and a wildly nebulous sky. The colors ... drowned out by the blinding rays of a familiar sunset. I adore the sight ... ’t going to jump out of the screen and stop me from carving some pumpkins

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school ... complain about how her hall's TV only plays in Spanish. I myself found MIT ... out of Next if you move here in your first year - but that's a story for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007