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  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  you live, a visit to MIT can be expensive and a little time consuming ... . Normally visits only last for about a day so you will have to cram as much ... than Gimp?) so you'll have to settle for a slightly larger picture than

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  time. People talk a lot about how important your living group is to your ... Alternatively, how to build a cult! Only it’s not a cult, it’s just a ... beginning on campus [annotation note="I am literally on a plane headed back to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  MIT students learned about MIT. Where I was a friend to the incoming ... mistakes." It's a learned habit, something taught to me by my dad, as he ... to again are suddenly re-entering my life, and I don't know if it's a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  , to get some things off everyone’s chest and provide a safe space to ... situation. For a month, my father would try to call home only to get an ... of the people I refer to as “international”, though, have a very

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... 'll answer these questions. Our approach to application "essays" is not a ... different ways, from tackling the world’s biggest challenges to being a good

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do ... to MIT and felt a quick jolt of sadness from leaving home after the ... my plans: During IAP, there is a class taught called "Intro to Python

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  book, Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen ... is his choice in 4 years). Would we be better off sending him to a big name private high school? Or is it possible to get a good enough

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  questions as soon as I can... "A Probably Not So Important Question That Might ... each application, and that people know that we did our best to select a ... experiences back to Sloan in a follow-up course titled Leadership and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  While I'm working on a longer post, I wanted to write a quick post ... to die unexpectedly the very next day? Message to 12,000 A.D. I see ... messages. Pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  -and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being ... studies! It’s practically impossible for one person to optimize a UI, but a ... belonging to one of 31 body parts. A set of features are generated for each

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  . I’m a teaching assistant. To get funding, most MEngs have to TA or RA ... fellowship. In particular, we have the 6-A program, which allows you to intern ... market was difficult and they struggled to land a job. Totally

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  visit a few weeks ago, I asked them to bring along my keyboards. As you ... artistically. For my Jazz History course, I've been listening to a lot of jazz ... besides music, I've also had the opportunity to take a ton of awesome photos

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  outside world, so I’d like to take a moment and reconnect myself with what ... list-based posts this fall as I would have liked, I present to you a list ... order is overrated. I went to St Petersburg This is definitely a big

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  , because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and ... raffle to get a free 32GB ipod touch. Yeah. I know. Wow. If that's not an ... 'm trying not to get my hopes up. But dang. So anyway, a list of some of the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  community members take classes on such silly but important topics as Giving a ... back to the office to read applications for a while until 4:45pm or so ... picture two below. I ran out of MASLab down to room 10-250 to check out a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  ://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a freshman assigned a particular discipline he is to major in or it is decided in later years?" When you apply to MIT, you are not applying to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  wasn’t a couch potato by any means; I loved to go fishing with my ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap ... the best places in the world to be a student” and the top two reasons

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  you think about it, this blog is a way to reincarnate them. Perhaps this ... my subscription to [annotation note="Honestly? I’m a few months behind ... , hire a professional agency to take on this project—and I am very much not

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  next year the applicants could try to get all stressed out a few months ... to spend an hour on a single app. Sometimes that's just what it takes ... It's that time of year again. I have a love-hate relationship with

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  ) and February of this year. Last semester, on a whim, I decided to ... positive light, praising it as a vehicle for women to talk about issues that ... classes that got me to declare a Philosophy major. She was always so nice

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016