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• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  foreground is Arup's hair and a little bit above him you can see smoke from the ... "Dream On" (Aerosmith is a Boston band, remember), "Dreaming of You," and ... you a puppy. I awoke from uneasy dreams on the morning of July 4th at 5

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3

  

  wrapping up the night with a Poetry Slam where poets compete for a few bucks ... take every chance I can to drop by Central Square and listen to a few ... asking, Nat?! What's a Poetry Slam?! How do you competitively read poetry

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  original research (for example, using a case study approach where you focus on a game and analyze it akin to what one of our author’s does). If you ... papers is that you demonstrate a rigorous, scholarly analysis of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  again. And if you just want to work on a UROP, like me, you can, without ... should probably blog.” IAP is a wonderful, wonderful time. While all my ... family’s better parties. You can do these sorts of things when you don

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  .  Lunch is where people make friends right? So, we made a plan to sit with ... a while -- we weren’t for four years -- but once you are, nothing can ... was only around a 3 minute drive away from where we lived. Around

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  attend a one-week session where we work in small groups, along with a Teaching Assistant (TA) who is in industry/research, to complete a series of ... you who have never heard of Goldman Sachs, it is one of the world

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  the most important things a good college applicant can actually do to help their application is make sure everything is done on time!). As you ... as the last few years, to wit: We know you lead a busy life, full of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is make sure everything is ... lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required of you ... , our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting ... simple: they will use lasers to burn anything into anything. As you can see ... smoke cleared (and there was a lot of smoke), I was left with this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  visiting MIT (more on that in a sec), you'd probably find me poring over some ... I visited MIT is another story in and of itself - but basically, a few ... Harvard Yard to take the No. 1 bus up to MIT, where I was given a personal

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  . Make Memories. Prepare. After all this is a really special time. A time ... and dislocate your knee cap just a few weeks into break, you, my friend ... around. Yay for knee dislocations! To give you a little context, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine ... I assume to be "Be Cool" on the bus ride up and I saw a brief where ... minutes. But I never believed in linear time anyway. Since my life is a lot

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  stuck in my head-- This is the place Sit down, you're safe now You've been stuck in a lift We've been trying to reach you, Thom This is the ... , there was a place where I could finally breathe. A page in my notes app

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  , so as long as you get us the copies in a timely manner, there will be ... another copy of the evaluation form, you can get a PDF from the tracking ... have received. Now we're really ready to read applications! This is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  the hallway leading to the mental health and counseling wing. there is a ... back of my mind. there was a small, soft voice reminding me of what ... play baba is you and playing drawful and other games until 4 am. on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can I find info on Graduate Admissions/Masters/PhD?

  The Office of Undergraduate Admissions handles first-year and transfer admissions. To pursue graduate study at MIT, you need to apply to one of our departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  like Java's rebellious younger cousin, you can only eat oatmeal for so long before you want to punch someone, and learned that snow is, despite ... , where the intersection of the two categories gives you this: Professor

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of ... source: http://xkcd.com/863/ Last night, I had a convincing ... year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  , there is a giant pyramid of mail that we are working as quickly as ... moment! To submit Parts 1 and 2, log in to your account on MyMIT. You can ... or email about missing materials right now. All you will hear back is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  have a steadier grip on the [annotation note="can you paint a picture of ... centers, theaters, churches, and a whole lot of things that can’t even truly ... than a few miles can quantify. New buildings have cropped up around

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025