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• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  in teenage life, and what parents and educators can do to defuse them ... small town in Alabama is one of the top in our state. (I know Alabama isn ... 's overall rank in class, which can be problematic. Experienced admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  opprotunities? A generic answer is "Judging them in their 'contexts'", but how do ... can press hope to get to university in U.S.The list you have supplied ... 'm looking forward to hear from you." I've covered some of the question in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  only makes this even harder: in a face-to-face conversation, I can ask ... "how do i want to change as a person in college" or "what are my goals of ... an “uncommon piece of advice that I had heard or given”. And in that

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  Patriot’s Day on Monday (can anyone say “Boston Marathon” ... and Sam ran it together in 2006). We also got Tuesday off because MIT is ... so I still had class on Tuesday afternoon.) I think every MIT student

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  Earlier this year, I blogged about how we are redesigning ... blog. But there's one in particular I've kept turning over in my ... thought about this, I kept on thinking about how student projects like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  Ageing: for all the all-nighters I can no longer pull off, and all ... mostly-freshman GIR (General Institute Requirement) I can no longer ... (plus, I can attend pset parties again!). Frosh (of First East): for the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those ... computer shop party in a parking building. I took a lot of pictures, but it ... that i ended up buying. It's called "What's the Furthest Place From Here

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  " He's talking about how, for example, in Eric Lander's Bio class (human ... 're interested in. You can start a UROP as a freshman, first semester, by just ... to know about you, not about how much crap you can shove into your day

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go, ninja, go. A four hour tour of Boston, with Gilligan, and the Skipper too.

  

  in the gorilla suit jumped in, and I said, "Come on, Mitra, we can ... anything in the world, mental or physical, if I just put some time and training into it. In the past five years I've done a lot of thinking, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  how the lowercase C in Flama has closer [annotation note="Strike one for ... INSIDE" in Helvetica Bold Condensed. At first, I thought that the "FIRE ... Arial; we can tell even if it's blurry. Its header, "Facilities", is in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  can we make sure that supplementary materials were received? I sent in ... interested in blogging as well for the admissions office, where can I get more ... each, how can I include all three scores? BTW College board has sent MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  , in my mind, is the mega-resource.  You can go to them for just about ... get if you call 911.  In certain medical emergencies (I hear sports ... freshmen are just starting to filter in due to FPOPs or international

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  believe me when I tell them how ridiculous it looks. The stairs to Senior ... Yesterday I carried my camera around all day and took awkward ... other days when I carry my camera around all day and take awkward pictures

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  . Jaywalk Mass Ave. I'm kidding; ;)don't;) ;)break;) the ;)law.;) Fall in ... In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student ... ] While these are nice or whatever, I find them to be a bit generic. Here

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  you learned some of these? I now know how many hours are in a week and how many weeks are in a year I learned that MEAD envelopes with ... 'm sitting here, freaking out about how I didn't "get in." Well guess what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  expletive I can’t use on this blog, because cats read it or something and they ... kind of nice for once. Maybe too nice. I’m suspicious, but I can wear a T-Shirt and that’s fine. I’m supposed to meet up my advisor, Saif Rayyan, in his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  — changed."   I ran into a friend who I hadn't seen in over a year or ... semester, and we talked about the MEng. At one point, he mentioned how I seemed *changed*, calmer. I guess going abroad changed me. Later in the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  , but I do get claustrophobic in an I'm-hot-asf-and-need-you-to-shut-up-so-we-can ... eat at the (in)famous dining halls. I find it fairly obvious which ... nice? Do they look miserable? Vibes/ambiance - Can I eat here without

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  Green Building stairs when I can just live all my 3.5 years on campus in ... This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started ... thought it would be interesting to look back at how many of these items I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  water war weapons. I have sporks on my shirts. I chip in to buy our ... of paper. I can only guess what happens to those lists of names, but I ... solution. I spent all of my time at a particular fraternity in hopes of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008