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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  !) which to me is the most important thing. Also, there are great ... do to get in." No one activity is "better" than another: the best ... at all involved in the admissions process, that there is so much

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  mostly the same grade each semester. Other options would be to note it in ... is in the art portfolio, or can it be any art we want to send in ... -- it is this Monday, November 1. In an effort to be helpful and ease

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he ... "Ladies Dream." I don't know if it's trying to imply that this bus is the ... distance from Shinjuku-sanchome to the bus terminal, except in Boston it only

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  . The key is to notice my unhappiness as early as possible and take steps ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT ... until, at the end, one of the founders asked me how much compensation I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  conference and sat in on a panel on the new SAT writing test. Dr. Perelman is ... backed by data, I went to my hotel room, counted the words in those essays ... I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  Dave '07 go to the store and buy many, many pounds of bacon (both piggy ... have been playing out in the snow all day on Briggs Field, which is the ... most faculty are looking for people to help advance their projects in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  explored and changed course. It is okay to have been in the school orchestra ... to tell. Choose carefully! (On the other hand, in any case, there is ... you feel that you have to misrepresent the truth dramatically in order

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  village to village in order to increase the diversity of its gene pool. I ... with aplomb in their attempts to woo the judges. My personal favorite was ... for the inevitable punch line. In which case I’d happily comply and say

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  few hours and went up to check it out. This is Brian: Over the past ... her colors to contrast these delicate celery curtains. Her room is the ... in New Orleans. Looking to the left in my room. Eventually the bed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  outlets to any location in your room. For some reason the outlet overlords always put outlets in the most inconvenient locations, so surge protectors ... wanted to. Now, whether or not you have the discipline NOT to is a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  tent in the dark, did some reading (I'm most of the way through this) and ... off the road in thickets; you slid or stumbled to get from one to the ... 's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  that you see in 80s movies, which is the primary and most powerful way ... much older laptop. Or the time I went to a company info session and was ... most developers use. To the point that on my old ThinkPad, I had

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  of completion is the most satisfying way for me to feel like I ... to shit; in the beginning, I'd created a beautiful cherry blossom theme ... random shit to keep track of, but honestly, I had so much going on in high

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  the opportunity, we had to try to squeeze in another restaurant visit ... going to come from. But in the true spirit of work-play balance, I ... some of my best friends (plus, I got to eat some of the most delicious

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  taken in the spring in an online format. An initiative is underway to ... platform is the main source of learning. For others, it allows a blend of ... allow instructors to focus on critical content in the classroom and rely

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  parkinson's law asserts that work expands to fill the time allotted to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this ... ! that's the least number of classes i've ever taken in mit, and the least

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  'll be given a spot in the dorms"]never see again.[/annotation] I've mostly ... huge, huge silver lining is that I've had the chance to formally live ... this is just to say, we're both pretty bored people at the moment. This

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a ... to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the ... right at the end. Logan is (rather unfortunately, in my opinion) located

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the ... that gender identity is important to me. He begins to explain in detail ... interested and his tone is not in the least bit condescending. I smile and say

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  start their days at 7am, much to the chagrin of the average student who is ... to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send ... choice is the humble roach. I have yet to find out what redeeming qualities

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022