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  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  internships. Apply for dozens of internships. Apply for hundreds of internships ... people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself. Take pictures of yourself wearing silly hats. Take pictures of your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science ... representation, and that is EXTREMELY important to us. Steven Universe, in our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  15']my own process of applying to grad school,[/annotation] where to be ... desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of ... applications. And to connect our lives to the life of you, the reader. The

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  talking; I never got another job offer, or any response to any of my (many ... , Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with many members of the Class of ... . Typically, these students ascribe this ambiguity to a set of questions they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  Well, I'm 45.6 smoots of the way across this bridge we call MIT. The end of this first semester aligned perfectly with the holiday break and ... . I spent the first four days of break doing absolutely, very delicious

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... thesis mode. Now I have 60+ pages of it finished, and trying to get words out of me is starting to feel like making myself vomit when there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  undergraduate majors MIT offers has nearly doubled since, the essence of the ... qualifications are so excellent that they are clearly acceptable, an offer of ... is not required to reply to the offer of admission until May 1, the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  [annotation note="unlike other universities, most of mit's classes are 12 units (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer ... meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate

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

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  , has sung onstage with one of MIT’s student acapella groups called the ... portraits of dogs? Did you know that she loves folk music, her family and friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  . Smaller and lighter than your choice of where to apply to college, but ... I applied for, there are many of them available, and you can apply for ... any new language, and ... ok, fine, it doesn't apply to admissions blogs

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  somewhat (including the offer that I have in front of me right now). Not ... the notions of rightness and wrongness don’t apply to these kinds of big ... one universe at a time. And that's OK. I am still scared of grad school

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  research university. UROPs are technically a part of a larger [annotation ... high school once I turned 16. And while a lot of students at other universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics ... most people."]'here comes a thought' from steven universe ... decisions day when i applied early action. i could barely concentrate in class

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  about it. If you're an incoming freshman or thinking of applying, this won ... a lot of other cities. Much like with the T-pass, MIT also offers a ... people in a hall. I still feel like I get the benefits of being in a dorm

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  this article, one of the most requested lecture halls in the institute ... inspire little girls of color to apply and get accepted into MIT. Damn, it ... demographic present at MIT and a field of study that we offer is a person we can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  second of your time. Applying sideways, as a mantra, means don't do things ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... —the most recent instance was the reopening of Maseeh Hall (formerly Ashdown ... creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a La

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that. How do hall cultures fit into all of this? The ten halls of East ... era. Soon after the birth of halls' social spaces came changes in their ... the fall of 1971, four of the ten halls had female undergraduate

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Science and Engineering The Magician taps the forces of the universe to ... are alternate universes where similar but different versions of herself ... Each undergrad in MIT majors in one of [annotation note="The numbers

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023