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• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  , where I got to meet many fantastic students. After wonderful meetings in ... said, here are some tips I'd recommend... In my circle of friends, as ... alum that I don't regularly keep in touch with, by default I always

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  two years in Next House. I like the description on the Next website, so ... I should be filling out an absurdly long form so that I can get a pre ... has its own atmosphere and culture." In fact the website is awesome, so

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  building 46. i ask her to measure my pupillary distance so i can buy glasses ... fridges in our lab to make room for more samples. i can't help but feel ... minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... pretend i live in PST: Procrastination Standard Time (utc -69) and call it a ... relieved to hear that I’m actually travelling now, in contrast to last year

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  can't tell if I love or hate. I’ll be working on the problem sets and thinking like, "man, this is amazing, I can feel myself getting smarter by ... for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  entered and became a finalist in. "Gee," I thought, "A blogging scholarship. Well, I'm not a woman, a minority, I don't have a parent in a particular industry, I'm not the smartest in my class or major, and I haven't done

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  these in." "But I'm not wearing them. Look, it's all grass in there, how ... backpack!" "Nope, I'm sorry, you can't get in." Wonderful. Security 2 ... what very well could have been the longest line ever. I got in it. It

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  ). That’s about it. (Ok, I’m exaggerating a little bit. You can get general ... subjects to succeed in later classes. That’s true, but I wanted to give the ... subjects if you’re trying to figure out what to major in. It can give you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  it in New Orleans, so I told myself I needed to finish the paper by the ... landed in Louisiana, I was ready to not think about work for a week ... 'm from NYC, of course I can't drive..."]all three....[/annotation] Hard as

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  Shorts – What more can I say? MIT Full Face Zip Hoodie – For when you ... How is it already December? It feels like it was just a few days ago that I arrived on campus, and now there’s holiday decorations everywhere

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  around in college. I guess I have to recognize that things can't always ... ="missa was the nickname i went by in middle and high school ... , which i participated in from eighth to tenth grade. it was a good program

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  This summer, my friends in LA kept telling me I hadn’t changed at all since high school. I expected to feel annoyed: in an objective sense, I’m a lot better adjusted now than I was in high school, and I might have

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  MIT application into your other applications. Should I send in extra ... , which can be downloaded off of the MyMIT website. Your semester grades are ... decisions in mid-March. Should I send in a whole new version of my application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  can do great things for each other. Any others that I'm missing? In any ... enlightening. As I wrote back in February, I'm reading three heavy-duty books in ... , and am fairly confident that I knew what was going on in each book. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  try to identify the MATCH in the people I meet here at MIT - it ... email inbox. You begin asking yourself, "Exactly how much help do I need ... that you can't get into college on your own? One value I hold higher

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  sessions[/annotation] by saying some form of “I believe in my heart that MIT ... beyond in order to qualify for most schools. I’ll give you that. The ... about. Then, it can potentially veer away from the idea of fit and tilt in

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  , etc. In my last blog post, I said that I would write up an explanation ... to your eye. Here's a visual example from this website (which I ... to talk about... How light works Light can be thought of as a wave

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  . In MIT speak, I'm a CMS/6-3 and this past semester I took 3.091, 21M.011, 18.01, and 8.01L. In non-MIT speak, I'm a double major in ... ??!?!?" Yes! Frosh can live in cook for yourself dorms right away, you aren

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  each other. How we did this without words is beyond me, but I will always ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... foreigner who did not even speak the language. “I wanted to remedy this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  can’t find it on the website, they don’t show you on the tours and you ... (many) are from dorm mailing lists – the topics in those can range from ... I'll actually read, I still get kind of nervous when I can't check it

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007