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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on ... reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... our international quota. If I'm waitlisted, can I still come for CPW or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to ... with onions, poured in two cans of tomatoes, dumped in half a bottle of ... can't find them in Germany). The general consensus was that it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  couple courses in the department, I determined that this was not the career ... (Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Management Science). I found that I really enjoyed the classes I had in course 15 but the course 2

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  series of TableTop and I fell in love. Every week Wil Wheaton would gather ... Role-Playing Game show. I can't wait! Youtubers Fighting For Net ... a few of my favorite questions. "How would modern American football

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... winged mechanical beast that brought me to a new world, and I rode in the ... ) the next day and over the course of a week, I worked in a group with two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  the financial aid award letter. In June 2019 I wrote a post about how I ... to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar's records, a person who exists on paper but not in living people's lives. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  (and trying to decide if I can make the hurdle over the guy sleeping in ... the beginning of the rest of your life. I know that when I sent in my ... Around the world, college students are going on hunger strike in his

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i've been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me ... 're in right now. i have been ruminating on care, in all its forms, and it ... and face masks and indulging in a bit of luxury. "self-care is buying

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... career behind me, I wrote a reflection post after being out in the real ... tried to impress! Damn. +++++ In hindsight, I couldn’t have guessed in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  whiteboard care to dotted lines on blackboards (i can make circles in both ... only if] true" and "i can only count to 3" and "i haven't seen you in ... Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day ... crashed in World War I, so he gave up that dream in favor of becoming an ... display, but when I googled it I got a different painting as a result. In

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer App Is Live For current college students hoping to enter MIT in the Spring of 2013

  

  our website. What questions do you have that we can help with? Best ... Ahoy! I hope you arrr having a great September. The MIT Transfer ... be another cycle in the Spring with a February 15 deadline.) There

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  book and how I feel, but I can say for certain that this book is my ... little more than 10 books as I’m in the middle of reading an eleventh book ... the thoughtful gift. I say this to show how biased I was against Kaur

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  , because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late ... ."]9 am[/annotation] I’ll be in the basement workshop under the Infinite ... otherwise, in years. I was reminded of Phoenix ComicCon, where I’d bounce

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  times like these I need to know I'm not alone in how I am feeling. I was ... never ended. I can't say what happened, but it was unfortunate. And no ... them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... 're not in the best state of mind. Growth, where we learn how we can best ... of how far I've come. I remember the sleepless nights in high school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  black sesame powder.)   In any case, I can't believe there are only ... this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... in New York to doing research in Hong Kong. Naturally I gravitated

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  Advising Folder. I had totally forgotten that I get 9 units of general ... my AP Physics C scores. So all in all, I was very happy to see my ... organized in one handy folder, but since I already bored you with that topic

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... -shirts, glorious T-shirts: I may have exaggerated a bit in the title. In reality, I ... outfits that weren't in my suitcase when I got here. A chunk of a car

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016