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  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get a good sense of this.  There are some things that are intentional ... to grandma, and a certain jolly old elf that lives at the North Pole

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  of publication, etc. If you don't have a current blog and still wish to ... . Bonus points if you can present Jess with a question that she can't answer ... to maintain a balance between new students and upperclassmen. That said

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

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  stereotype was one of the things that turned me off to CMU. It wasn't until a ... Sciences, a former admissions officer and current employee of OpenCourseWare) kept a minute-by-minute log of the excitement in Boston from her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  system isn't showing a document yet, relax and wait just a little while ... applications have been read. So don't worry. At this time, do not send a ... disadvantage; we do not assign blame on why we don't have it. We will wait a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  here aren't enough for you :) So. Many. People. There are a lot of ... 'll be a time for some new adventure before classes start.  Boston is to be ... MIT, where the education is likened to drinking from a firehose.  As one

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  Mechanical Engineering undergrads in a class known as 2.009: Product ... from a piano several feet above filled the room. Lights danced around ... but with… …a rendition of What Does the Fox Say by a live band

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to ... bloggers via hidden messages in the comments was a joke). For those of you who were at CPW, what did you enjoy most? What was good? I've heard a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV53qvfM3Xw For the completionists, a two-hour long interview with Woodie ... , ethically, and emotionally. As a cofounder of FIRST, he was known for bringing ... have ever encountered: an attentive listener, a thoughtful respondent

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors ... it’s a great opportunity, and it almost felt like an MIT-bucket-list thing to do.  But, we also didn’t want to UROP just to UROP. We wanted to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large ... college admissions season can be a particularly anxious time for students. I ... going to college?" "What schools have you applied to?" "When do you get a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  structure until you get here and come into your own. And maybe you won't. As a ... holiday weekend in New York with some friends. I acquired a real curio of a hat in a Canadian train station, and thinking it'd serve well in keeping

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Look at these pictures I drew in class from my lecture notes this semester

  

  [caption id="attachment_83529" align="aligncenter" width="550"] belugas actually don't have dorsal fins but uhhhh who cares ... that notability has a basketball-themed template

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  ?” boat. We don’t want to treat this blog as a way to directly advise you ... read the blogs and didn’t give another school a chance… that is, until ... A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive applicant pool in Early Action, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive applicant pool in Early Action, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive applicant pool in Early Action, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Freshman App Questions We're happy to help.

  

  Ahoy! I hope you arrr having a great September. As you know, the MIT Freshman Application is available at MyMIT. The Early Action ... aren't already answered on the site) about the MIT Freshman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Brought Something? Um, no. No, we didn't.

  

  There was snow? I kid, I kid. I stayed up for most of the night with Colin '10, Nina '08, and Timur '10 waiting for it to snow. A couple of hours after I left them to go back to my room, snow it did. It wasn't much

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Saves The Pact God bless Stu's hairy face.

  

  Just when I thought I couldn't make it through another minute of the agony of yesterday's events, I walked into our weekly staff meeting to ... hero. We'll give him a few days to grow and then we'll get some pics up

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  I've been thinking about something since I left work today, and felt compelled to log it here before hitting the sack... Please, please, don't ... world a better place, whether or not you go to MIT. It's the truth. -B

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004