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• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  attend college, and did not accompany me to campus. In fact, the first time ... number one question I get from students is some version of: “How did I get in?” Many of our students feel this impostor syndrome prospectively to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  always on different dorms, live in each other's rooms for several days to ... enough to survive out in the wild. Thankfully was able to enter the ... general rituals of the clan in 5W. I am to expect four-legged beasts roaming

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other issues in the future. The parent wrote: Why is it so important to have gone ... . Eventually, this lead me to MIT. In all these ways, that summer program opened

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  musical innovation, but also in his ability to continue to stay relevant and ... 'm referencing this interview with Kanye West by BigBoyTV. In response to Big Boy ... and whether that's in jest or in seriousness is really hard to tell

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  constructed card games, it's far more difficult to get the cards you want in ... are an adventurer ascending a spire in order to slay it. Your cards ... the importance of a program's logistics. Back in high school, I used to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  stayed in touch more with a friend who moved away. Get to know people ... queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be ... senioritis project–something to do in the time that you procrastinate all of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  type? 1. You can learn how to cook. What better way to learn how than to live in a place where you can have a big, awesome kitchen with personal ... known to make a home out of EC as well.. 3. Residents live in doubles or

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  now, and it's traditional for people in my living group, floorpi, to ... application after application to get rejection after rejection, and the game i ... die. i'm literally writing this in public trying my best not to cry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  year of undergrad, I chose to live in a double, because I really liked ... experience was defined by proving myself to nobody in particular—proving I ... ="Residential EXploration, where first-year students get to explore all the dorms with a lot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  , taught me how to play Guitar Hero in Simmons, which isn’t Smash in ... :30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and head-to-toe rain gear, I yelled at my teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it was easier to get into MIT than it is now) and have insights into the Institute (or how it was thirty years ago; in our internet age you might know

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply to be an Exchange Student, Special Student, or Visiting Student?

  . If you are interested in doing research at MIT, you will need to be ... must invite you to their lab to engage in research. If there is a ... An Exchange Student enrolls at MIT to take classes as a non
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  was never cleaned up properly, how the government tried to relocate ... complicated subject that i don’t think i’m qualified to write about in detail ... the topic and link you to some of the articles i’ve read  space in sf

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me ... to ask specific questions - I'll try to answer in the comments), but if

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  more snark in my life, you think? Responses to Comments Nur asked: Just ... in applications, and the class council does some magical process to ... as I can tell. In your MyMIT account, if you go to Section 8 of Part

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  straightforward: study hard, get good grades, go to a good school, get a good job ... there isn't anything else left to accomplish. But in reality, success is ... ever changing. As I learn to believe in that with all of my heart, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  /Malawian/Ghanaian dirt compares to dirt commonly found in, say... Massachusetts? Or what ... machines, like in the picture? How was it? What sort of buildings do local ... -Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  won't know how to get there but no worries because everyone else was ... and feel obligated to write about 5th of November/Guy Fawkes ... class last week (in Chinese, of course). I didn't see any masks over here

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  I discuss how to get scientists more involved in advocacy, and what a ... physicist!" At this point, a number of people are trying to get Rep. Holt ... 'm busy wondering how many people can say that they've talked to a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  live in my room in east campus, but i'm trying to spend more time in et ... promys, this math summer camp i went to in high school. it reminds me of ... thing in the us, but it feels like a Real Thing now that i'm going to rent

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023