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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  down the tunnel is the basement of Random Hall. Farther down still is the ... echoes through the universe in defiance of conventional physics as ... . Jackie L. ‘18 You hug your floormate in the hall after a long day of class

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  regrettably failed to take advantage of its historical and culinary wonders, but when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the initiation of a two-year renovation plan, but house team was still emailing us

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  not clear, applying for admission involves the submission of academic ... offer of admission, from the big name universiy, that will impress their ... to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I ... Internship For those of you that haven't read previous blogposts, I'm currently

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  major is more of a personal journey, and these blogs are supposed to apply ... people you know in universities you aspire to go to, of people in majors ... respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  kinds of recruitment efforts: those that get more people to apply, and ... I've been busy recently because of CPW. Like last year, CPW is being ... people sent lots of messages. Trinidad, one of the admissions directors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  . When I applied, I was well aware of the fact that MIT attracts the best ... post about the rest of my trips.) But with several blog posts in the ... to enroll at MIT, but I think it also applies to people thinking about

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  several offers to, um, join a tour of certain lesser-known parts of the ... offer you 50 Reflections. Here goes... The years I spent at MIT were among the best -- and, at the same time, the hardest -- years of my life

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  There and Back It's like a reunion tour, kind of.

  

  . The TV show in fact is older than many of you applying to MIT right now ... find people like me (“Oh, you sometimes walk down the hall thinking of ... This blog post was written by Mitra, Sam, and Bryan. In 1994, one of

  • by Bryan
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  Is among the most overused phrases of petulant children, and virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... subject of the college admissions process. The reason the situation is

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  simultaneously by offering: a wide variety of fresh and healthy produce, grocery ... when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and ... , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  this year’s cohort of students applying to MIT to know that as well! If ... of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within ... Dark Materials and the residents of our universe know these particles as

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  job offer in Auckland and took a year off to work instead of coming back ... every secret of the universe, and there simply isn’t enough time to do so ... recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  the University of Washington, then become a software engineer. So, why ... really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least…the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at ... pretty much like the Chuck Norris of all floors. If we were on Heroes, we ... that I've established that, we can all go home. I say this lightly, of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  — fewer of them applying to MIT, in order to achieve the diversity that we ... [annotation note='For example, in his landmark study of the University of ... -based financial aid programs in the country...the ⌈University of California system

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of ... I feel my blood run cold. Of the many memorable and inspirational

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019