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  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  a whole MIT community that can’t wait to meet you. Congratulations and ... Hi! I’m Brenna Heintz, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... applications, I’m excited to start meeting all of you! Kim was kind enough to let

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  , but more EXTREME! You even see a bunch of people swimming in it all the ... a spare pair of underwear packed discreetly in my back pocket, I ... journeying, you go toward a dam, which prevents you from going over a waterfall

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  experience is a part of the real world, and the things you learn (or don't ... , while sometimes I wish I didn't so fear the struggle for a better world ... applications, educations, and most importantly lives have been interrupted by a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  phds and professorships. that’s not a path i’m considering right now ... there at that hour. when you’re a kid and it’s nighttime you’re basically ... ’re a college student, for a brief time you can basically do whatever you

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

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  MIT application is that we don't prompt for a single, longform essay ... . Instead, for a variety of reasons, we use our own application, hosted ... year, they go something like this: We know you lead a busy life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  , "Ohmygods I can't wait to watch bouncy balls fall out of the sky and play in a ... there for an hour. Or if you don't think you're the Greek type, go to a ... you've had since forever, or you get home after a long trip and just put

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  a total hypocrite in saying this because in case you couldn't tell ... . I'm glad to be back in D Entry, and here's to a great year! ... cramming all of your things into a bunch of tiny boxes). Me driving my stuff

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  ONE PSET. I don't blog about how overbearing things can feel (a test and ... don't happen every day and they don't happen all day. You know when they happen? Between PSETs. The part about me that I haven't actually blogged

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  may want to do in the future. Rule No. 1 Don't be a afraid to put ... fairs, even if you aren't looking for a job yet. They may not have a ton ... from a direct application to an employer. Everything elsethat they

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  ="attachment_111272" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Measuring a polyester t ... scarves arriving in a box that literally said “CHEMICAL TEXTILE” in big bold letters. They also didn’t look or feel like other silk fabrics I was used to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  emphasize that this is because I'm a double major and is not a normal (or ... (being a biologist, E. coli make me nervous)... bad news. So after making a few and having the same problem, I had a Flash of Genius. Meatcubes. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  notebook, I decided it wouldn’t be complete without a few pictures, so I ... Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... ’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  host. As I’m sure you noticed, most had to do with food, which was a very ... guess they have a point. Day 11: Teaching is hard! I don’t think I ... entertained, which luckily wasn’t a huge problem in my CS classes, but required

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  behavior of a society.” Which… does sound very manipulative, and I swear I’m ... everyone is eating dinner. Boston Commons gets buried, person A doesn’t see the message, and on Saturday you find out that person A can't make it

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  in), I'm actually glad that I ended up where I did (even though it wasn't ... that are made while constructing a class: we decide whom we want to admit ... plan to admit students from the wait list. How many we admit is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  on the same day. Yes, I'm not very happy about that fact, but it ... , I know that's a lot of chemistry and math talk right there. Yes, that was the point. Not because I'm trying to show off - I read most of those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  A little more than a year ago, we here on the blogs were celebrating ... a mini-contest, initiated by Ben: As you know if you follow Matt ... . What you may not know is that Joanne is, like me, a die-hard Lost fan

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  year? We won't know until a few days after May 1, when admitted students ... I'm back! Here are the answers to some common questions that have ... -9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  , he didn’t have a ton of information to work with… but I think it’s still a bit weird how he told me that I shouldn’t be going to Urgent Care ... RNA vaccines within a century. Don’t underestimate the power of music In

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  you are. You remind yourself that you aren't amidst a tragedy, that you ... this with anything. I like to count. When I'm near flowers or a plant, I ... the day in a haze. Couldn't focus on anything. Got half a problem set

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014