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  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  Game, you will be able to participate in all the most important aspects ... internet connection, it may take a few moments, or minutes, to download for ... , which is a numeric string that allows us to keep track of your scores so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  announcing large social events to publicizing important surveys on campus issues. It's not always a fun job, although I would like to think I've gotten pretty good at it over time. Most importantly, however, to break the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  stuff, what have you -- I try to always keep a tab on what's going on in ... -annual gaming convention to celebrate Twitch as a live streaming platform! Content ... incredibly hectic. I tried to make a list of events I wanted to go to and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  /no record -- and was heading off to a shiny internship at the NIH... I was ... in the world of sleep statistics.) 2. It really is better to get a good night's sleep before a test than to stay up and cram. Really. Oh man

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  here you really have to pick and choose what is important to you. I do commit a...healthy...amount of time to extra-curriculars, but outside of ... . Ooooh. But the magic wears off after a couple weeks, to be honest, and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago ... 'd say, "Marge, I have a yen to travel." And Marge would agree instantly ... 've noticed that my personal yen to travel is particularly strong after a long

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  to turn as early a September, but only recently has most of the campus ... that such important professors take time out from their families to have ... '08 give me a house tour. Along the way, I saw a door to add to my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  , what might be my short term and long term goals, it's important to go a ... to America to live with my parents. I'd left everything behind but a ... interests. I guess I had a lot on my mind. I like to write, but this is

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  mind. blue are mandatory, or important events that i'm committing to (i ... you want to). in this way, the gcal becomes a more accurate life log of what i did at a particular point in time and when, as opposed to a list

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  going to college?" "What schools have you applied to?" "When do you get a ... the process. It really was a great opportunity for my family to ... worthwhile. Fit is also a two way proposition. Your child's job is to find the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  being able to write well is important. You will never encounter a ... to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories ... college application essays, this is a great time to revisit some of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the residential areas, stopping at every block to let out tired adults. It’s a ... of it, not a mere tourist or spectator of the rush hour crowd. I go to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  ever-important ventures into all the diversity the world has to offer. Take advantage of the wondrous opportunity to discover a different ... (This is a direct paste from an email.) The Undergraduate

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... found the secret on guarenteed [sic] Admissions to MIT This comes directly from someone who has a friend that goes there and knows the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  includes a text box for you to update us on anything important that has ... deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do ... . It continues to be a great pool of motivated and successful students

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... that we need to make a decision on your case. The Application Tracking ... Hello! I wanted to take this opportunity to provide an update on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  asked, "Is it important to consider Nobel laureates at a university when I ... , I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the ... 's problems, so a desire to improve society, to make the world a better place

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  nights Time kept a rhythm, while we scraped along Now we start to peer ... But of soap, and its importance to me There's much more to soap than it ... Dial Gold." So due to my mother's frugality, I bought a huge package of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  the EA process. So consider my blog, for now, to be a bit of counter ... home. Allow me to give you the grand tour. Picture 1 gives you a great ... . It's a simple concept. If it's important, it's on my desk. Out of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  students will have taken an idea from nothing more than a sketch on paper to a real life product. This course is a FANTASTIC opportunity to get to ... . Over the course of 12 short weeks, we're expected to build a product that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014