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• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  on the way to getting what you want out of college. Not because of ... college experiences elsewhere. Some of my very fondest college memories have ... it’s hard to take advantage of all the opportunities. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  information; first I emailed one of the cheerleaders, Lisa '04, who is currently ... , who got her master's in aero/astro last spring. (Yes, two of the people ... 't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  ; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on ... laundry until after finals week. :D A lot of this behavior is motivated by a sense of resignation. Common wisdom around MIT says that freshmen

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  time of my life in college (at a school that was ranked -YIKES- only #20 ... Name: Ben Jones Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions Hometown: Baltimore, MD High school: Gilman College: Oberlin, 1996

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to ... universe, and everything. If it were up to me, I’d sleep at least 9 hours ... cocoon myself in a swathe of green bedsheets. But tonight is different

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  Another CPW has come and gone, and with it the throes of prefrosh ... for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of ... down in your work day in and day out. Of course, CPW brings out the best

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the reasons was the extremely dull, lackluster nature of the old admissions ... respond. College admissions offices employ standard USPS snail mail to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  Stu, Matt, Nance, Daniel and I are all down in NYC for the College ... Manhattan, but I'm not complaining. That's one of the things I love about New York - you can find every single kind of person here, even Red Sox fans

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it could have been. I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are ... figured out how to track all of the admit packs going to international

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  several renovations. What does the bookshelf of an MIT student look like ... Comics Understanding Comics, one of my books for Toy Design. Nightwork ... ? Uncle John's Bathroom Reader This is where I get all of my random

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  (Also see Bryan's entry) The first full week of October is always an ... for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is widely seen as Nobel-caliber. So, coming off of that disappointment, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  returning to the rest of the world, or from the freedom of being a college ... “college is the best four years of your life” and i think that’s an extremely ... ’re a college student, for a brief time you can basically do whatever you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  -and-pasting, the entropy of the universe will not increase as much as it would had I ... hundreds of wonderful and intelligent female students but also the best-tasting water on campus. Last Sunday, I filled up two entire bottles of sweet

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  beans like a college-kid stereotype; but most of me argues that canned ... flower pressed between pages. Here’s a snapshot of a week: https ... plays, there’s always at least one free table, and most of the clientele

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  It's that time of the year where everything winds down and you might ... towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  program of Society for Science & the Public (SSP), is the world's largest international pre-college science competition. Approximately 1 ... their teams, a few of us met up at the Carnegie Science Center, saw

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  as many of your options as possible. Campus visits really helped me ... "feel" for a college. I'm really excited to see you guys, the next generation of MIT students. CPW will be all kinds of fun. Click here to browse

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  been writing to offer me a job writing handouts for one of AoPS's ... all of this without ever leaving your room.  What are you going ... you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  of my second year at college. The Show That I Thought Was Good but Then ... [Part of the Up-Goer Blogs] Every year, a group of so ... Guy Joined a Band in College, and That Small Animal is Riding a Huge

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024