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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  person to get their picture in before Valentine's Day officially ends. A ... , bad joke.) who may or may not like piña coladas and getting caught in ... . Solid choice. Alright, guys, unless you get me a picture in the next 34

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  as much as my family did: Anyway, I come to you in 2018 bearing ... updates that you want us to know (things like awards, achievements, etc ... obligated to fill up the form—it’s okay if all you’re sending us is semester

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles ... One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... the first person in their families to go to college, their university

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  very close ended to the very open ended: before my time, in the days of ... answer. A) and B) are somewhat in tension, but we try to balance them as ... old applications, which got me down to the Institute Archives, looking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  lucky ones get put into a folder to be re-read and noted later. (Most don ... Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or ... other eager freshmen, still believed 24 hours in a day was surely enough

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in ... I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have ... 's Headquarters happen to be right here in Boston! (This is not a very widely

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  takeoff is a good place to start with a disclaimer: my father was in control ... frequents these blogs! * The word "prospective" doesn't distribute to parents ... really, don't plan out your child's future that far in advance, dude. Wait

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  little depressing. But in the end it was all worth it. I got to work with ... 8 teams have the opportunity to pitch their products in this ... spent long hours in lab to finish our products :) It's a great celebration

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  how many students from Spain apply to MIT each year, but just in case ... Spain had taught me how to appreciate the "little moments" of my life ... student in the program is required to write 3 short entries for the blog

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several ... first task was to figure out how big the room was. This posed an immediate ... long and harsh journey down to Economy Hardware (how did we know about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  members of the LGBTQ community. In a charged letter to President Reif ... to avoid such situations in future. This is what Nasir Almasri, a ... place, the MIT community needs to be involved. In many cases, donors of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  and getting excited to finally make it to campus in just three short ... help fabricate portions of projects for these classes. In addition to ... whether you'd like to contribute.  I make an appearance in the video at 3

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  time studying and you won't get to sleep much. But I've really been ... IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  -worker is fine, thanks to the wonderful medics and folks in the ER. But more ... So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton ... exciting for two reasons... first, it was my first ride in an ambulance

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day

  

  to pick up your UMA pi day T-shirt! All contest winners get pi ... in room 2-102** the UMA (undergraduate math association) will be holding the following festivities in honor of pi day: Pie baking contest Pi

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Very, Very Important News That title is written to tantalize your RSS readers.

  

  in the next few days; in the meantime I really need to say something ... Hi folks, Today was the 8th day in a row of selection committee. Everyone is super tired, but we'll all get a bit of a break soon and we

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 24, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

  social sciences to getting rigorous training within their area of ... foundation for study in your major. In your second semester, you might add subjects to help you explore your anticipated major. MIT’s GIRs ensure that
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  inside of the building in an effort to preserve the years of artwork ... Drive to the Kendall T stop a lot (back in my PNR daze) and this sign was one of my favorite things to pass. I often thought about how long that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  there so that the freshman can get the best idea of where they want to ... you can re-rank the dorms you'd like to live in. Maybe REX changed your ... voodoo. I seem to remember that most people get their first or second

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011