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• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger ... thousands of miles away, who doesnt know anyone who went to a big college, what its like here. i want to convince him to apply. i want to comfort

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  - comprised of the communications team and our Class of 2012 senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The ... applications, the cruel difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  had VR capabilities! The locals also offered us a selection of home ... Prologue “Guess what, gang?” Fred Harris – the director of the MIT ... famous Teatro Amazonas in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  section of the current (soon to be "old") apply section on MITadmissions ... chance to blog a preview and talk about some of the design decisions we ... you can get a sense of the basic design direction.   Student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my German language class, down a steep hill with a beautiful view of the ... stellar corpses that emit two beams of radio light and spin around like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  ’m Mollie! I’m one of the five or six(?) original bloggers, and I was the ... cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that ... specify subtype and area identity in the projection neurons of the cerebral

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... soundcheck and Mocha Moves, one of our amazing hip hop dance groups, were ... for a living. And yes, turning down applications is a huge part of the

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Magically [annotation note="university wifi, typically found at universities, not hostels 20 km from the nearest grocery store ... beautiful, cold little hostel about 21km south of Killarney, a town in County

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  feels like to apply to colleges overseas or out of state. The pressures ... your friends or family. The hardest part of applying to college. The best ... I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  notes during class. SLP is a tough, no nonsense master of productivity, with a work ethic I admire greatly. Offering me free academic tools and ... version of Massachusetts. [caption id="attachment_103501" align

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  09:35. i hobble out of bed and pour myself some milk. there's a ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to the kitchen to reheat it. i see some friends from hall. "good morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  posts in the shower, dreaming of the day I could apply to be an admissions ... Last April, as part of a high school assignment, I was required to ... decisions (of which I will write soon) ensued, but one entry, written on a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  in a dorm because of the different community that it offers from my ... dorm. I joined a fraternity, but I live at iHouse, a specialized dorm of ... that live in a small dorm but is part of a fraternity, so I don't know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  -in-law, yay!), who has three pieces of advice which he applies to every ... without a car. Isn't there a delivery-to-door option offered by some of the ... I have to admit that I don't have fifty pieces of advice for anybody

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in ... guys got to see some of the nice weather we have hidden around here ... grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  High School Summer Research Programs And the science competitions that could potentially follow

  

  A cat ran on my keyboard So here is a link to MIT's list of summer programs at MIT and elsewhere, check it out! It really summarizes things well ... Brook University Intel Science Talent Search Intel International

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 21, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I defer my enrollment?

  of Admissions. Such requests are usually granted (indeed, often ... at MIT to enroll in courses at another college or university.
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  . This is Professor Junot Diaz. This is a book that wrote, one of my all-time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind was Holy moly I am going to be in the vicinity of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  not know me at all because I wrote blogs back in the dark ages of 2008 ... 'm the author of such classics as That time we streamed a dance party from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can anyone join the Experimental Study Group (ESG)?

  Experimental Study Group (ESG) offers instruction in the core first-year subjects of biology, chemistry, math, and physics through small, discussion ... floor of one of the central buildings on campus. Eleven staff members and