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  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  , but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... ] You can't put on your resume things that you don't [do] Here in 3 ... know what it is, even. But every so often, I'll have like, a moment, when

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  the MIT populace as a whole, but I have some amount of work to do - or ... home, as strange as it sounds, is MIT. I didn't expect that to happen ... complain a lot about how ridiculously challenging MIT is, about how hosed we

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  is that there are laptops everywhere! Proof? I love having a laptop, it lets me do what I'm doing now (type a blog entry in the floor ... . Everybody here I know that has one is a Mac fanboy and also uses another

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  unending drive to do better is built in them. However, as I said before there ... Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a ... that this is not a statement about my entire high school. During my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same ... . This means that MY CODE. The code I had a WEEK before the checkoff would ... -fueled Nihilism? It makes you write this blogpost. I want a better grade in 6

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  . Mrs. Moore, because she had seen how much I had struggled in algebra, and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work ... thing you can do is just tell us, in the additional information section

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  their origins as a class, here is what I told them:  Then, that August ... person I could recognize in the mirror. If that is true for some of you now, or later in life, just know that it is a process, and it takes time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  in style since then. In any case, you can see that there is a huge list ... get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... a call to tech support, I'm about to tell you. When I show up at IS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  , I thought, Wow, this is a sign I don't belong here...   But the info ... optimistic, and thought that if I am just honest in my application, wherever I ... choosing MIT. But I do wonder every so often just how much I belong here

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  life of crime. I was doing [annotation note="laundry also has me in a chokehold. I am perpetually in a state of doing laundry ... [/annotation] with homework and exams. I have a lot of half-written blogs that I want

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  that I hope you’ll do (and I’ll be doing as well as I learn MIT) is to ... , how competitive and unsocial it is. I’ve only been here a few weeks and ... terrific universities (including MIT). I never aspired to have a career in

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  opportunities in classes and in clubs. I am taking SP.747-Creative Imaging, a ... the many art clubs that MIT has is MTG, the Musical Theatre Guild. I am ... [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  provides a good amount of flexibility, some students do other things that ... versions of: 8.01: Physics I (the Concourse version is taught by a good ... excitement and anticipation I had on my first day back in 1996; I wish I could

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  've been in a bit of writing rut but, as I was reading through an email I sent out to my friends, I thought: oh! this would be a cute blog so that ... morning is really fun. I’ve been so healthy, and have recognized how much

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  Tumblrs that post pictures of fresh designs in architecture, etc. Usually I ... in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and ... to?  - Procrastinating.  I don't blame us. The Internet these days is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  Now I get to mention something cool that I do with my life here! It may have casually come up in the times that I’ve written here that I am ... mistakes and everything was easy, how would we learn? Anyway, I spent A LOT

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  blog post by Anna H. ‘14 called How to get a UROP that goes further into ... that requires you to be a junior and proficient in, like, five different ... , but they do exist. Besides, it doesn't hurt to reach out to a lab that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... tail end off for those C's in a way that I'd never worked for my A's in ... hang out with my boyfriend. I learned that learning is a priority for me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... , that this is my shot. My shot to do something with myself. To become a ... stressed out of my mind, that all I had to do was believe in the person I was

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  calling with questions. In an effort to answer these questions, here is a testing requirements FAQ. I hope it is helpful! Q. Do you prefer the SAT or ... an international student, do I have to take the TOEFL? A. No, we do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005