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• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  gaps that I can fill in between classes, which, as a sophomore, are ... , since it doesn't have my laptop in it at that pictured moment (Yes, I am ... in my room, with pages of notes strewn on my bed and my person, where I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  (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 ... Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next

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

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  the lobster tank in the Chicago Meijer, wondering how on earth I had ... saying Orange County, California. I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but I ... reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  coming to MIT, I had never cooked before in my life.  Nada.  Zip.  (okay ... how to cook).  I'm fairly sure I caused my mom a great deal of stress ... ?  but calculus?).  Being the knowledge junkie that I am, you can bet that

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  order’. How can I indicate that someone else is providing the fee? A: Just ... date that you can take is in January. Just because I care, here is the ... applicants. Maybe they will help you too. If I didn't address your question in

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  try to get an hour long nap in. Or, it means I can tell you what I ... minutes early so I watched as guys dressed in batman pajamas stormed the ... 's when I saw it. Everything finally snapped into place. How could I have

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  process, so I can’t even identify how I got to my current gloomy state ... sticky buns are really good, and all I want in life is to sit here and ... class in the morning. Part of me still feels like I’m seventeen and back

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• 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 / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ONE PSET. I don't blog about how overbearing things can feel (a test and two PSETs due on Wednesday) or about how long days can be (9 AM to 10 PM

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  notice fashion in a way I never did before. I can tell you that in July in ... .) I spent the summer doing a software internship in New York. I lived ... , in classic MIT student tradition, I crammed a year’s worth of self

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  . I spent several hours immersed in rummaging through and reminiscing ... , flyers, postcards, and everything in between contained. I made a big fun mess in the kitchen, but I consolidated everything into one notebook that

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  a life in the tech industry." "MAS.863 - how to make almost anything ... , and how I look at the world. 6.172 taught me a lot of technical things and helped me define what I'm really interested in. "the weight

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  rocket scientist. I can remember playing with this airplane that I had when ... 's realizing what's important and what has to be done in order to succeed. I mean ... about how important it was to do well in school." [...] McGee recalls

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  remember for my entire life. Plus, if I can run a marathon in sleet and get a ... out the weather report in mid-April and this is what I get... I ... case I did something stupid and you can't see the picture, basically, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the ... -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A ... .900 because not only am I interested in the subject, but it fulfills two HASS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply as a permanent resident?

  citizenship status. In the MIT first-year admissions process, you are considered ... applications from students in the process of waiting for their green cards. If there is a change in your citizen status during the application process
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  there's really nothing more I can say. I hope this blog has been helpful for you this year, no matter how things turn out for you. I can ... future. In fact, I received word today that I've been accepted as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  wisdom dispensed by the slew of cruft blogs. Reading them, I can't help but ... I harp on in English about topics they’ve only ever found the words ... me for work every morning, or even some spare change so i can look

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  II which are more important than SAT I as SAT I can be replaced by TOEFL." You can definitely submit test scores in January for regular ... . ------------------------ He-Who-Does-Not-Want-To-Be-Named wrote: "I got really bad scores in my

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

    that doesn't mean I don't matter I'm no insignificant blip in the universe it means I am part of something much bigger than myself   ... one of the reasons I love dawn is it reminds me that the sun will

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 7, 2024