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• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  ’re plucking at your bass, I’m palming a glass of juice I won’t finish. At the ... was early morning—something like 4 a.m.—when we shuffled sleepily from ... to my room is one I recognize every stroke of. Now after I’m away for a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  context: we don’t care as much about what a student has done as what they ... as a barrier if you can’t cross it. For that reason, we continue to ... At MIT Admissions, our mission is to recruit, select, and enroll a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  to report -- so if you're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades ... uses a trimester schedule, please use your first trimester grades ... students, and students already out of school. You do not need to have a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  internships. I wasn’t looking for a standard internship, but I had nothing to ... you don’t notice it. Every so often, a screaming flock of parrots dashes ... you really aren’t in control. Confusion - when you discover a bat in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  entertainment than conversations. as a result i wasn’t sure if the skill of ... in april my friend recommended the excellent article becoming a ... from magic; any sufficiently advanced technologist seems like a magician

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  not think I could be both an engineer and a leader. Isn’t being just one of those hard enough? I didn’t give myself a reason to step up, but ... careers in a time when women just didn’t do that. I decided to attend this

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  carrying an umbrella in a snowstorm doesn't make immediate intuitive sense to you, you've clearly never lived though a New England winter. Timur had ... 'll cross my fingers for that. In either case, I'm planning to take my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  housekeeping than take points away from my social life. As a result, I still can’t ... , traditions, and shenanigans that happen around MIT on a daily basis, it’s easy ... , sleep (pick two). Right now I have all three - a wonderful group of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  ?" If the application tracking doesn't list a recommendation, odds are we ... . ------------------------------------- Doug wrote: "I have a question for you guys. In my application I didn't ... a 4000 word physics research paper which you guys wouldn't want to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  that “admissions officer” was a job. I hadn’t spared much thought on how ... problem was I didn’t get to do much of it. So armed with a greater ... job interview, and I made the HUGE mistake of not studying a campus map

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  : “Bless you. You know, I’m interested. What does a typical MIT frosh* even ... game character or piece of sushi. As a winged version of myself, I had the incredible luck of flutterskating with a Viking, a pot of gold

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  stories up, hence everyone looking skyward. I didn't get a shot of the roll ... yourself if you want. I'm not the only one who had a camera, and some people ... If you didn't already think that this past weekend at MIT was jam

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  has become such a constant in my life recently, and I fear I'm starting ... 's update rate. I don't know if what I'm seeing in the Charles is also due to ... ="92055" /] I'm home! As they say, "It's not a frat house, it's a frat home". My

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  programs! I’m super excited to have him as a thesis advisor because he’s done ... couldn’t tell, my favorite color is orange. i have loved it since i was a ... impromptu hanging out that didn’t end up on my calendar. I’m so bad at doing

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  -motion animated movie. Miske is, uh, a guy we know. (Does he read the blogs? I don't ... . (It's probably incomplete, though -- I'm guessing we didn't get it ... My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  ideas stew in your head for a day or two. You don’t touch the project ... haven’t played it in years, but what if…? 10. You give it a go on the ... post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.

  

  Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know. I know that many of you haven't heard yet, and that it's enormously ... while people in Cambridge have not. I can't explain this, other than to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  had to do on a computer but hey! It worked! I'm excited! I can use the ... course.) I'm getting a little tired of every single person I run into at ... . Trust me, when I showed up at the Career Fair a few weeks ago, I couldn't

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  us. We haven’t seen you all week. me: I mean… okay. I am not a hard ... following conversations can literally happen nowhere else in the world. So a ... Friday night when I ran into a couple of my sisters. Them: Where are you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  I’m looking at how I stumbled through this maze before. A Brief ... quickly realized I didn’t have time. I hung out with my pod a few times per ... again.  I started a UROP. I doubled down on working out.  I didn’t enjoy

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022