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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  my list of college applications. MIT eventually came back to being my ... Tonight, I'll post the first of the reports back from this week ... comments, please leave more of your thoughts from the Parties, or drop me a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  Just the other day, I joined a handful of parents at my 15-yr ... and students stood up in front of us weary workday parents, who were ... program changed their life. Nobody had to convince me. I spent most of the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does my transcript count as official?

  transcript. This applies for high school and college transcripts. If your ... submit your transcript to us. Please note: If you send us a copy of your
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I send in my transcript?

  school and college transcripts. If your school does not have a school ... : If you send us a copy of your transcript while we are waiting for your
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow snow snow. I'm wearing bright colors so if I get caught in a snow drift someone will…

  

  Michigan, which gets some of the most snow in the US, right? Our standards ... . Seriously, now. EDIT2, 9:09am: http://wbztv.com/schoolclosings#College Really?

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a fantastic new job (Vice President for Communications!) at Oberlin College. If ... he has befriended hundreds of MIT students, alums, and parents, not to

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

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm ... and devoid of art and light. I hate it. Perhaps hate is too strong a word and some of these unfavorable conditions should be attributed to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  , for the surprising amount of support and encouragement over the past few ... inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do ... couple hours about the unbridled stresses of life and then hitting publish

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  the father of the inflationary theory of the universe - and figured, in ... So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when I went to take my 8.012 final exam and had a sort-of-awkward encounter

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  of "B" in the college course instead of the "A" that many of her peers ... surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that Hollywood fantasy. NEWSFLASH... NO ONE MAKES IT AT MIT/COLLEGE (OR IN LIFE

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... needs to be capable of being made somehow. 2.008 teaches us how to make it real. Of course, this is MIT, where we believe the best way to learn is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  frustration made me aloof. I didn't want college to be a repeat of high school ... outside of my year and department. And even through the whole mid-college ... be friends with the exact same group of people throughout college, but

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  we (the class of '24s) were supposed to just get it. Like we were ... they should live [as though we should have a semblance of what dorm culture was after spending our first years on Zoom]. Through all of this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  'm really excited for CPW!! I really cant wait to come up and meet all of the ... in terms of balancing time b/w them and with my host at CPW? I know ... , "If one of our parents is coming with us to CPW, is it okay for us to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I live are preparing to celebrate Marathon Monday tomorrow but for those of ... can provide. Since I am involved with many of the parent events during

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... -to-know-you questions ended with college apps? Nope! “Tell us about who you are, your ... hobbies, what you do for fun outside of class, what your advisor should know

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones Sam is the funniest, though... BOTB and CPW Feedback.

  

  (She's a rockstar by night) So Thursday night we got a preview of ... birthdays over Campus Preview Weekend, but the real show was during Battle of ... . Raffle of Guitar Hero An aside, if you will: Guitar Hero is one of the

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  the department in charge of student groups, sole, describes their ... "hey do you want to pick this up?" and neither of you put a date it won ... people tend to be universally okay with using spreadsheets. how to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  ] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT ... rescue them. Of course, they were not going to use live ammo - simply ... mountains of New Hampshire. We landed at the prison, and quickly set up our

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  of college math classes (besides GIRs) is that they’re full of people ... college, so he began to register for more and more of them until he was ... As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017