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• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  talked about MIT, New Jersey, cool things to do at CPW, what we enjoyed about high school, potential majors, and what we wanted to be in our ... was in San Francisco during my junior year spring break so I didn't get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... in the Cambridge area.  The Red Line no longer delivers me to the ... probably continue to check in periodically (as long as I am permitted to do

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  just wondering if you had any questions or would like to get the ... time to prepare a list of questions either. So just in case you'd like to ... this evening, but just in case you didn't get a call from me specifically

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made ... GPA in high school to be admitted into MIT (as well as some other ... obituaries. I don’t really know how to narrativize it, but I imagine many

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  ’t want to be sucked in to big and long-term lows. Whenever I cry or get ... ’s wrong?” “I’m not in a good mood,” she said. She didn’t need to say why ... emotions do in fact fluctuate with the state of the world, which I want to be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  brothers from Des Moines that went from not knowing how to cook to starting a ... people. But most "reality" TV is fake nowadays and so we want to do something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... (History and Computer Science).  For this major, I have to take 7 classes in ... be invited to an in-person audition.  At the audition, you take a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I ... on New Year's Eve. Now you need to understand that we have always done ... getting to the end and realizing there is a piece missing. Now sometimes it

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  the skies in Malaysia. It was hard to see the Kuala Lumpur (KL) skyline, including the famous Petronas Towers. Closer in, though, I was able to get ... Malaysia, it was off to Hong Kong. Here's me atop the Peak in Hong Kong, with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  day, for MIT, for the country, or for the world. In addition to the ... heels of highly charged incidents, from Georgia to New York, that ... better. In the days and months to come, I would like us to find meaningful

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  next few days. But I just want to say something. In a word, you guys are ... , MI, SC, GA, TX, MO, WA (just to name a few) and getting to know your passions in high school, from research (I don't know how many ISEF and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  , and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that ... ’t called in a week. I’ve been kind of hosed. Mom: Are you sick again? You ... juice in a week and a half. I haven’t really slept in a while. Mom: Sleep

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space ... the lunar surface from 1969-72. In fact, when NASA announced the new ... 11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  How many biological engineers does it take to make a motorized ... create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the ... . Two: remember that it is never too late to learn something new! Though

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  blinked. Processed. Blinked again. I get to just not come to school in the ... school. Funny how things change. In the end, I ultimately chose not to go ... didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first ... of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My ... I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images ... their college destination. As such, the parent wanted to know how best to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  afraid of failing too. In that, I learned another lesson. I used to get mad ... couch in my room because it was easier to get out of my couch than it was ... spot, get in." I was overjoyed. I was going home.   And to home I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  New York. I went to Europe for a week, where I had more great food. I am ... 's gaping maw ready to swallow me whole again. In other words... BRING IT ON ... something in the lot, Teaching English to a class (and watching them sing "I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010