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• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  wanted to live here and study here. Who wouldn't want to be in the center ... , in the urban locale of Boston and in the cosmopolitan Northeast? "In." If only I were to get in, I thought, I'd be set. My life would be made

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on ... '07 is printing out in dazzling color as you read this, and nary a good night's sleep in three days. DID YOU KNOW? Building 66, designed by MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  -dollar fall retreat at a cabin in New Hampshire with the dorm, both of which ... test that I keep in a special place that I take out and read through and ... in the class took full advantage of that stipulation, so I made out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  comments in the previous entry - so hysterical and creative. Reading that ... record, we were indeed in a viewbook planning session - Saad you were right ... wholly tongue-in-cheek. The bad email came from angry environmentalists who

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... stored it in my Athena locker. One of my more notorious quirks is that I keep my sleep statistics in a set of Excel files. Every morning when I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Hi everyone! CPW is in full swing. I haven't been this tired in a ... registration desk until a little after 8PM, went to the Prefrosh Welcome Event in ... campus. It's been great to meet people in person after corresponding with

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  from the waitlist in the past few years? Should I even bother staying on ... waitlist in the past few years, we admitted very few this year (due to the ... make sure that you have a place to enroll next year other than MIT in

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group ... country and around the world. Spending time in settings like these is ... in question because educational institutions have abdicated their

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  up with Gen Zalpha slang, or people who are reading this in the far ... . I unfortunately lost a handful of aura points in the past several days ... ] Daylight Saving Time For some reason, the shift in daylight savings threw my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  firsts. Here are some that I remembered, in roughly chronological order: Stayed in a [annotation note='dome-shaped tent that feels like a cabin ... fort party Got a temporary neck tattoo Popped a balloon in front of

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  that I should've worked harder in my classes, even though I also know ... try my best to be forgiving towards myself, but I still slip once in a ... the mindsets that I held for granted back in high school. I stopped

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y ... 've never seen an AMA before: in the comments below, feel free to ask any ... involved in at MIT How I've spent my summer Hobbies that I have / used to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  for first-year and transfer admissions (for students entering MIT in 2021 and beyond). We made this decision after considerable study, in ... research has shown these tests, in combination with a student’s high school

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  long and hard, and I totally remember being in your shoes in turmoil about where I'd end up in just a few months. The only way to give each and ... the day. Where are you reading? I'm lucky I live in the suburbs and

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  old places I used to frequent a lot back when I was in high school. The Source in Buena Park, Baekjeong on Beach Blvd, my aunt's house in Cerritos ... back in California because every memory here is now slightly tainted

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  .e. not planning on flaking, in contrast with light blue). yellow are ... block of time (more on retroaction in a bit). red are physical things ... adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  . The First Parish in Cambridge hosted a Q&A book-signing with cult ... or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it big. And it looks like people understand that now: my audience in Des

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  be doing better: close to MIT, there's Sapporo Ramen in the H-Mart at ... so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you ... ). There's one place called Yume wo Katare (夢を語れ), also in Porter, that has

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  in Boston by June 9th for Commencement.   Day 1, Wednesday 5 ... sleeping. I got to the airport at 10 am. My flight left in 45 min and the staff told me that it was too late to check in. I pleaded and they let me

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I ... I was sitting in the Media Lab when I saw in the news that Fireflies ... , like finishing up my IAP class assignments and moving rooms in my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017