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  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  's still very useful for all of us to sit around and talk about how we do ... officer more than 30 years ago, it wasn't uncommon for a single applicant to ... to students that should make the process a bit saner for all involved

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  react to this by berating ourselves for “not working hard enough.”  When ... extracurriculars, or always seemed to have some interesting trivia on hand. Being the ... niche. The “smart” friend. Then we came to MIT, and met all the other

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  tier-listing all the classes i’ve taken at mit and some other things

  

  for a MIT student (compared to the required 8 classes), but it’s mainly ... without. For the bottom tiers, I want to add a disclaimer that I don ... semester and would have appreciated not having to finish work for that class

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  down, two more to go. 2:10 PM – For the next three hours, we present our ... : https://www.facebook.com/imesmit/videos/1908234159392157/ Three down, one more to go. 5:02 PM – The instructor for 17S.914 ... for me to be a college student. It’s more than just doing psets and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  just tall enough for those beds to be bunk beds. I threw my handbag into ... for the social to begin! Good luck!" Great. There were at least fifty ... 10:25pm, Friday. I was sprinting down dorm row from French House to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  ="it takes up to two years for a book to actually be published after it sells ... needed to grow after I’d figured that out for myself. [annotation note ... Hi! I disappeared from the blogs for the past few months, oops. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  fun thing to do is go chairing down the tunnels! Cook for yourself for ... for my friends to use, and they'd later feed me with whatever I provided ... to get more experience in cooking for when summertime hits and I no

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  continue? to which I had settled on “probably not” for each. Brenda applauds ... , felt silly for a second, then stepped out to see where I was. There was a ... ” to change everything in his life, and joked that he might run for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  graduate, and I know for sure that [annotation note="or 6.2060 according to ... everything he was saying. But he went fast. I looked down for five seconds to ... microcontroller instead?" The point was to strip things we often take for granted

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  first place was difficult. Does it take longer to process things for ... )? Or would it be too late to be processed by then anyway? Thanks for any ... to join the under-graduate course for engineering in mit..i m an indian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  discussing with the new freshmen if they wanted to loft their beds for more ... through for me again- so I rented a UHaul, made an adventurous trip to Home Depot to buy lumber for no fewer than 4 lofts, an picked up a futon all in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into ... to be for school, but I was also not yet in school. I spent a few hours ... was writing. Whenever I finish a piece for this class, all I want to do

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  funny? Sometimes when you need help the best thing to do is ask for help ... to do, asking for help has made me more productive and generally lifted ... semester) were simply because I was too prideful to ask for help. Oh yeah! I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…

  

  First things first -- I took a weekend trip back to New York and stood in line for three hours to taste the fabled Ramen Burger. Best 8 ... freshmen. Totally optional, but a great way for incoming students to meet

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a ... good. Learning to cook.  Learning to swim, for real. (I ... is a class I absolutely need to graduate. (I won't bore you with

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• 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.

  

  want to get technical about it, CPW served no other purpose for me other ... there for an hour. Or if you don't think you're the Greek type, go to a ... down your bags and sigh because it feels so good to be home? Yeah. That

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  our future. MIT has been very active in developing solutions to energy ... GE / mtvU Ecocollege Challenge. (For more info, read one of my previous entries). Today, Thomas Friedman, an op-ed contributor to the NY Times

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  Hampshire to discover that my laptop, where I store one bazillion pictures of ... morning at 6 AM I'm leaving on a fast train for my beloved hometown, that "burgeoning center for ... arts and culture ... maintaining the warmth and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  Today, I'm in northern Virginia, assisting with the selection for the ... after a day of reviewing applications to MITE2S. As an admissions officer, I enjoy working to provide a group of young people with educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  list of options to choose from for our final project. I chose ... to write about for my final project, so I took a theory I have about ... suggestions, I tried to make a Bayesian model for how a player's confidence

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025