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  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  €“ this guy has a lot of experience) “it's a lot more important to show that ... 'skills' section of my resume, so it doesn't look so empty?" Other Freshman ... womb." Which of these people will be able to land an undergraduate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  This post has now been translated into Chinese (橫向申請 / 横向申请 ... officers follow the winds to the corners of the country to talk to students ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  explains how, as a dog lover at heart, she has gotten into the hobby of doing ... , has sung onstage with one of MIT’s student acapella groups called the ... portraits of dogs? Did you know that she loves folk music, her family and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  :01 -- While walking out of Professor Walley's office, I very nearly run into 21A ... 'll be sad.) Since the stated purpose of the blogs is to introduce prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room ... a large quantity of ice cream the night before. If I got in, I would

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of my favorite mailing lists is Burton-Conner’s, not because of the content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  come up with a list of friends and acquaintances who could be swayed into ... film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you're just riffing off of someone else's idea. But I hope you all enjoy it as

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  strips of colored LEDs lining the hallway, a bunch of the hall frosh built a beautiful shrine with linkedin pictures of all of our visitors faces pinned to a corkboard after only two hours of professional stalking. I

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  tweezers, they manipulate glowing molten glass at the end of a blowpipe into ... convert all of the typical elements of the hierophant card into math ... also deep danger. we see the figure of a student whose shadow morphs into

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT Gothic You are reading an admissions blog post. You are reading tumblr.

  

  Happy Sunday! I am doing end of semester things and also reading ... has been going around tumblr and finally found its way into our corner: MIT Gothic. I think it paints a very concrete picture of life at MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break. My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... sort of caffeine from the convenience store across the street from the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3 ... are obviously hot, but by cooling black metal that still holds a lot of ... when you make the end of a bar thin and pointy. rivets are like double

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  fallen into disrepair, and yet probably ninety percent of its visitors just ... ashes sprinkled into the soup of someone I don't like. On our way back on ... Morrison will probably also be forgotten in a hundred years, but it's kind of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  plagued my thoughts for a while, but when I thrust myself into the world of ... exploded with laughter in the middle of my physics lecture as soon as i saw it:   I thought OP probably was a reader of the blogs, because

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  your life and you're kind of interested in a lot of things and everything ... integrate it into their self-identity was so delightfully complex that we ... project in itself) so we took some of the patterns from our interviews and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  That phrase is probably the most uttered string of words I hear. It ... around like basketballs of our more athletically inclined friends. We ... between. It's in these aloof conversations that I really appreciate one of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design: designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling. Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... some autumn pieces of our cozy quiet neighborhood—closer to Harvard than ... both symbolize the end of things, but autumn has always been my favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016