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• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  comfort at the time, and it's one of the things that got me to continue ... portfolio of activities aren't necessarily coherent, many don't help at all ... story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  magic mimicked every single one of my attempts to pass them for at least ... My spring break consisted of some of the things I love most in this ... , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ...  or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel Fellowship and join "the next generation of tech visionaries." Perhaps this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  were still going strong as time ran out at the end of the fourth round ... happy with how they delegated roles at the very beginning of the exercise ... ELLs take a lot of behind-the-scenes planning. ELLs are two

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  somewhere kind of far out at sea as the sun set. I mused about reclining in a ... Freshman year has come and gone; three more years of MIT separate me ... was the experience of burning out. Since the next three years won't take

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  on the tip of my tongue at the time. That was an absolutely stupid thing of me to do, but I guess it reflects the state of my mind at that ... Hi, prefrosh! I assume that the bulk of our audience right now is

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  lecture at MIT (9.65, Cognitive Processes), expecting the Lightning Bolt of ... around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started ... 't actually that funny at the time. Sorry, Dustin.) The point is that they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  an hour long car ride back home for dinner at McMenamins. If you ... double bacon, two apple ciders, tater tots, and an extra order of fries ... couch. There's not a lot like flopping on the couch at home after a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  [edited 05/14 after first posted at 2 AM; corrected by Clara '10 ... three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little while, and I would look down at their page over my absurdly high nose and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the ... was walking out of Lobby 7 after spending the afternoon teaching my last SAT class of the semester, and I suddenly saw specks of white fall from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  Petey had a mighty nine-year run of writing this post, but a king [of ... 's my turn to take up the mantle of "person who announces the admissions blogger application." While some days I'm in Cambridge at the MIT Welcome

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... time. We as a society have settled for suboptimal modes of transportation, and this is a problem. Alternative evolutions of the bicycle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  MIT 2016 Surprise! Midnight servings of ice cream at HackMIT 2016 Hack ... I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I ... mentors, and tinker around with lots of new shiny gadgets, technologies, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  much more emotion and meaning! At the end of the musical, I was singing ... hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer ... some retail therapy and watched a few episodes of Friends to distract

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers (: Hello everyone! I’m Kirsten, one of the four fabulous freshmen MIT ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Malgorzata Hedderick (Associate Dean of MIT Undergraduate Education), Melanie Parker (Executive Director of the MIT Global Education and Career ... for Malgorzata and Melanie. We gathered at a restaurant that specializes

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  it this far :) I can't wait to meet some of you at CPW! To those of ... I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... action decisions came out last year, I was at a debate tournament, with no

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  this is college, and this is MIT at that, and there are tons of smart ... good idea of who I am – random, likes artsy stuff, etc, etc. But to round out the intro: I’m a freshman @ MIT, trudging through endless piles of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  of you on the road as well as old friends who were at the conference ... to our Central Meeting there hosted by Dean of Admissions, Stuart Schmill ’86. We had a great group of students and families who attended (one

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...n_friday.shtml Power of suggestion (Sam): One way to tell if you belong at MIT http ... cannot afford the costs of the travel [...] Since I cannot make it, what ... 'm reposting it here: So as you're probably aware, MIT has a dedicated group of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007