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• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  accepted into the University of Chicago early action, and life was set for me ... month of December. Except then I got into MIT in March. This complicated ... to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  pass each other on the way into and out of the athletic center during ... it into that "anything else?" section of every application I filled out ... Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of ... the topic of this blog. So far this semester, I realized that I haven't written about my classes yet, so I'll give you a brief rundown of my courses

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  field of view. A first grade amazement turned into a middle school ... (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  It's been a few weeks since many of you have submitted your ... 're working pretty hard to read each and every one of them. I know the wait is ... every one of you a fair chance is to read what you've presented to us, and

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  hope to eventually transform many of these into their own blog posts: 1 ... of planning and careful consideration that went into the process. My ... celebrate being two years into their undergraduate degree. The Class of 2022

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  into their third or fourth year of MIT and they are still going out with ... (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out ... classes, and (best of all?) go to college parties! You will roam the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

    It was an epic battle, a tournament to the death. Tens of ... rounds). If they lost this match, they would be out of the tournament and ... formed an unusally tight bond, joking around and making fun of their mentor

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  amount of effort I put into it, I started developing some amount of ... ! Part of what I liked so much about the job was that I got to see and help ... my group, got the coolest gig of walking around in a space suit with a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  classes im taking! strictly

  

  schedule[/caption] 6.191: Computation Structures. Goal of this class: learn ... ---when I saw my friend typing rapidly on his computer it reminded me of hacking into the mainframe, so I spent about an hour configuring my VSCode

  • by Victor D. '27
  • February 16, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite ... , Thirteen Ways of Looking. Another best-selling author, Claire Messud, came to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  [by Ken Haggerty '11] As I walked into the main stage of the Central ... construction was done, but it wasn't until last Sunday and the urging of friends ... a showtime into my schedule. ABOVE: Central Square Theater's new

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  engineering graduate school of some repute. My return flight through Chicago was cancelled due to Chicago being buried under 20 stories of golfball-sized hail ... 'm flying back to Boston by way of Portland, Oregon and Philadelphia

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  you leave for college, you kind of forget that life continues to happen in that world where you just left. I just got this message out of the ... cover story. I'm so on to them.) I've always been one of those people who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  One of my biggest plights with MIT is how, since they kinda know that people will always want to apply/commit, there isn't as much of a need to ... better campus and it's not without notice, and also a lot of the issues

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  a day's worth of classes and found this printout of my blogger bio taped to my door.   OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room ... ” OF MY BLOGGER PHOTO WITH HEARTS ALL AROUND IT. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA… I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  Fall semester began as expected, with a shot of adrenaline and confidence. This translated into a flurry of calendar-marking, schedule-planning, promise-making, and more personal resolutions than all of my New Years

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  ," a night of spoken word, collective art, and informative camaraderie. I read Chin's book about five years ago, and was madly into it at the time ... months. It heartened me to be in that room, with the coolest collection of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a ... , haha) could have been used to describe me. Thanks to one of my friends ... time on the positive side of the emotional spectrum. She recently created

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... boathouse was locked, so practice was cancelled. The day is turning into the ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011