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  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  thinking of them. In fact, I even wrote a little outline of this blog down on a napkin... I just haven't had a good chunk of time to sit down and actually type everything out. So here we go: Dear Class of 2016, Welcome to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  Class started today and before we know it, a lot of us on campus will ... so into the hectic rhythm of classes, psets, extracurricular commitments, that "soon it's like, 'Oh yeah! The rest of the world! I forgot it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in ... . And that's not an exaggeration." There's a bit of silence as we all ... here. Anthony captures a stunning picture of me and MadMatt towards the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  photographer, writer, fimographer, and visual artist. On top of that, she is also ... for the month of February, was created and curated by her (with some art ... , here’s some notable parts and video work of the exhibition:  

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Events

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

  

  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 ... to kind of talk about Rush. Like what numerous people have mentioned

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

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  unpublished post of mine from nearly three weeks ago. Apparently I started ... my friends that I have a 4.0 at MIT! Granted, none of them know that we ... am dancing. I'm also back in Florida, having moved out of Senior House

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  greater independence. I’m a big fan of data. It can reduce complicated phenomena (like my transition to college) into comfortingly simple sets of ... collected data about the number of steps I’ve taken and flights of stairs I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston, I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is ... representative of the city itself) once a weekend. Honestly, the activation energy

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  at some of some of the blogging highlights of Ben's 4 years (and 194 ... to hide from us and our pursuit of content. And we promise to serve you ... Ben's first post of emotional truth. If more people in admissions could

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  Today, the Class of 2012 formally register for classes and thus ... sense of their individual achievements, passions, and dreams can be harder. So this summer, I watched the news wire for stories of incoming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman ... propel myself towards my next event, i push away the cloud of uncertainty

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  sliver of the voices at MIT, and yet we capture many of the experiences, hardships, accomplishments, and adversity that can occur inside and outside of campus and college. The following is an unordered list of some of our top

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  thousands of dollars that are flowing back and forth on paper between you and ... had a lot of papers out, and was frantically scribbling numbers on pieces of scrap paper. Finally, he looked up and said, "Well, we can pay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  According to the admissions profession's Code of Ethics and ... upon date by which students reply to offers of admission. Following May 1, we take about a week to determine the state of the incoming class, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  ’s sparkle with a curtain of grey. The life of the Frosh shifts. Dulled is the thrill of the first impossible PSet. On sleepy breakfast runs, the Dome is ... MIT, unsure whether the prospect of returning home for the holidays

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  ... and arrive at one of my favorites -- I mean, just look at the pattern on ... a picture for you. Various areas of Building 6's basement are under ... , so keep these in mind. We're almost out of Building 3 as we pass

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  bring the wrath of higher-ups raining down on the admissions office again ... ) Scared about repercussions c) A member of the MIT faculty d) Tempted to e ... horizontal piece of PVC. At the end of Rush the fraternities make bids and

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  I did three things on Saturday, and each one of them rocked. Better yet, each one of them rocked in a different way, kind of like a charity ... time she crashed a bicycle in the mean streets of Boston, Ruth Miller was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the coolest parts of the NBM is the Athena Account Coupon. The coupon will allow ... (currently 1 GB), ability to access MIT-only secure web pages, and, of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  For the first half of IAP, we were speed walking to prepare for the ... way! Look at the frozen river! and ducks! and geese! close up of frozen river! 2) We saw Mary and the Witch's Flower, the first movie of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018