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  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  While reading applications, I've thought of a number of things of ... than we do. If you are interested in playing on a varsity sports team at ... sending in some of your work. Be sure your standardized test scores have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  Yesterday was the day that is usually my favorite day of the semester ... favorite day of the semester is actually the day they put up the full ... 't think it counts as my favorite day of term.) I know for sure that I'll be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  one of the directors of undergraduate writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He did doctoral work on testing and develops writing ... writing habits. "It appeared to me that regardless of what a student wrote

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  of slip-ups that have me dying with laughter at least once a day ... ’t taken a math class since Linear Algebra in my junior year of high school ... realm of matrix methods and learn how they’re applied to probability and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  through the events of a Friday. The game starts at midnight and continues ... , even though it may seem that way at first. The use of "you" through the ... you read most of the text. Choices that aren't listed don't matter

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  one of my closest friends at MIT. She introduced me to her UROP, and the ... ’ve necessarily mastered all of these things, but at the very least, they’re on my ... hill you want to die on. On a similar note, every word out of my mouth

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  the most points at the end of the week would win a big prize like an ... they played in between innings and at the end of the game. I tried my ... connected to it, with my perception of The Beths at concerts and radio shows

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  of Cakes - Food Network (I think if I ever met Duff or anyone at Charm ... single episode of all of these shows (though you'd probably be surprised at ... , which I will list here (notice that lists will soon become the theme of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  something fun for the 10-year blog birthday!" so, of course, I say yes.  It ... . swear at deer eating plants. do other stuff.  eh." "Wow Snively, you ... of my friends are plugging their ways towards their PhDs, have crazy

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  shook with rage. I narrowed my eyes, glaring at the orange ball ahead of ... photo of a Burton-Conner room also with an amazing beach theme (jaw ... with photos of the various dorms distributed to incoming freshmen during

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  of both the marching band and the modern football team. Looking through ... /kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/newspaperarticle.pdf">fascinating piece of history</a> from 1978, we see on page 12 that "the band ... , gimme an A, gimme an S...' cheer," which is a personal favorite of mine

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  particularly contagious at MIT - procrastination. Symptoms are particularly ... (mostly because you deny them), until the night before your exams hit. At ... beautiful study room in the fifth floor of the student center that was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  shocked everyone was when I signed up at the local gym and began faithfully ... schedule for the remainder of your week, to take advantage of the adrenaline ... take it at your pace. I'd ideally do yoga after my morning jog as a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2012! how is blog formed

  

  this summer, there's lots of Pats chat to catch up on. As for the ... expected to: Update their blogs at least once every week or two ... to routinely and regularly address tens of thousands of prospective MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  answer myself. I sleep at five in the morning, exhausted from a day of CPW ... the event of a crash. Most databases use a steal/no-force design, which ... step out of their slumber and into the courtyard. I put a patty on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colors of Campus and other random things on my camera.

  

  A few snippets of life .   Inspired by Kai's Parallel Universe Post      

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  inevitable passage of time. There will come the day when I'm no longer at MIT ... There's always this hum on campus, some whisper of a noise either from the drone of some electrical wire or the whir of a machine or the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  At about 10 am on Thursday there were about 100 people in lecture for ... message of love! Is Madeline here?”—Madeline raised her hand—“Would you like to join us in the aisle?” By now the rest of the MIT Logarhythms were

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  beloved green covered in snow, and those from equatorial climates suffer at the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a ... warmer than usual. Not bad for campus, but unfortunate for those of us

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  right of passage, a treat you only get as a student, and there's something ... of which you get in May after you matriculate) and you're taken to your ... used by a variety of colleges. It has all of the basic e

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008