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  The reading season begins

  

  awesome. It is incredibly inspirational to read about you and see just how many amazing students are out there. As I said to one of my colleagues in ... working all the time, I'm going to get back to reading your folders. Have a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  people around you, often in significant and long-lasting ways how do people in these areas reconcile “not being able to change other people ... stop wanting to. Not ‘some way to get rid of him’ - but a way to stop

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in ... 't expect to be this different. Anyway, in my time here, I've learned a lot in ... majority of my friends, and how to essentially survive my first year at MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller line to the side, I asked the doorman about the differences in the queues ... which attempt to show the viewers how the end of the world affects the

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  difficult to come by in Boston; instead, you get bubble tea. I'm not ... experience that I never would've had without my family pushing me to get in the ... shower for the first time in months without having to flop around in flip

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... know how many students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to ... waitlist this year? It is impossible to know. We will have no idea how many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  powerful pulpit to write and speak extensively about how to navigate the ... in teenage life, and what parents and educators can do to defuse them ... advice is to ask colleges directly how much weight they place on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  . Classes are in full swing, though I’m just getting acclimated to how much ... . Hooray for living in Maseeh! Katherine ’17, Cathy ’17 and I managed to ... flowers, in addition to the programs for the night. Food was catered from

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  :02: T-2 mins… Time to get calculator, pencil, eraser, periodic table ... to get lunch. Run to Masseh to get food to-go. 13:57: Run through the Infinite, weaving through people to get to Building 66. 14:05: Made it just

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  can't begin to tell you how quickly these past two years have gone by ... friends about how my school wasn't going to stick me with a random roommate ... you'd get to meet and interact with your adviser every week. But this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  Corridor. Maybe you'll get to see MIThenge.   Eat in the ... it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet ... which you, the prospective, get to experience MIT life minus the hard work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  't get to be Tim the Beaver, which cut me pretty deep. I haven't updated in a while. What have I been up to? For one, I went to West Virginia ... ... Got to learn how to drive stick-shift: Got to stand next to some big

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  as I stare at my completed 7.014 exam. I get up to hand the thick packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  MIT seemed to take all of the things I used in my application to get ... INTRO First things first, I have to post this, as promised in an ... when I started, and I get to look back at all I've done. Not gonna lie

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Freshman Application Is Now Live for prospective members of the Class of 2020

  

  not yet know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? At MIT, we seek to develop in each ... something important that didn’t go according to plan. How did you manage

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  in Boston How to get to place to sleep How to get back to the ... change it when I get in to see if there's anything else but I'll keep u ... to the same place as me, maybe I should get in line too? There’s only

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  maintain a balance between the two groups. The best way to get to know us is really to come and talk to us in person, as iHouse is just too diverse and ... , you'll get to interact with a sampling of the most active groups on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey look, I’m famous…or something

  

  where I find it sort of exciting to be in the Tech, assuming that I'm not ... my faces on them to get people to vote for our ticket. They tried to ... Hey, cool, my column's in the Tech! See? My column was a response

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  -six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they ... that I'm here working in the Real World™ (sort of), I've learned to ... what I am proud of, is the fact that I've managed to put in these hours

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  "right" things to get into the "right" colleges, they will be happy, in the ... 't get a chance to thank you in person so here it is, "thank you". My ... colleges to reach out to students in larger numbers, in some cases bordering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005