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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  vicious cycle. The telethon is a fun tradition that I think brings a really ... 'm pretty sure that MIT's campus preview weekend is (a) the most fun (b) the ... together in a concentrated burst of effort to do everything that lies at the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  statement. The same application is sent to whichever schools you designate ... over what the perfect choice is, it is more efficient and productive to ... 't right. Walk away and come back later. There is such a thing as burning

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  and began to erase the chalkboards. at the same time, i am also ... the W-cube. there is not much to get out of this story, i just like ... enjoy seeing the convergence of language (i don’t know if that is a real

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  's Mom and sorting through the shambolic mess that is my room right now. I ... that I'm a senior and I can take pretty much whatever I want. The first ... things that we listened to in the past week, and I was too ashamed to tell

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  and try to work together to make everything a little better in the field ... comments, I totally agree and that's at the top of my list of things to ... my travels over the last month, I just want to take a minute to thank

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  , I wouldn't see a real need to take the AP exam. The exception is that ... to the new site, and my travels around the country for the office, I ... , and lasted over an hour and a half!" I'm not sure what the problem is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  positions; but we refuse them all, for we wish to show the Faculty that a ... and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of ... reported that "few, if any institutions, in the United States have a higher

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  that our school is using the Naviance system to upload and send the ... and then sent a transcript from my school to MIT Admission. Is that okay ... instruct me. Are the evaluation forms A and B is the same as sample letters

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  friends? If this is the life that they've just chosen to lead? On a ... , accountable way. This is a good thing to do."]discussing all the things we didn ... [/annotation] and I'm just so happy to find genuinely such good guys." There's a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  . next to Central Park? That's where my medical school (and the medical ... , however, is that people in your class are no longer the same age as you. In ... bit strange to realize that most of the people in my class had taken a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  , there are a lot of things that need to happen before an application is ... sort of document it is (this is why documents that were sent in the same ... the deadline? And in the same envelope? Am I in trouble? Let's take the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  it is definitely a rule that I have found to be true for me. The reason ... going to take a leap of faith and say that most of the people applying to ... get some sleep try to find a friend that can take a video of the class

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of first-year learning communities are available?

  provides students with the opportunity to study and socialize as part of a ... MIT undergrads come from every state in the country and approximately ... to the community, and each learns in their unique way. Although we can
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  was telling me that I'd be going over there to represent the school and Brownsville, and I hope to do a good job of that." ... well. "I feel this is a great opportunity and not just because of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... member of the Class of 2010 and would like to request a one-year (or ... . But I do think that there is a bit of a stigma about such plans in many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  't be a wuss and say "But there are fourteen hundred entrieeeees in the ... should note, for the '10s among you, that I plan to have fresh cookies, and ... back and read all of the old entries. There's some good stuff in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  't notice during the semester is that I no longer, apparently, seem to think ... carpet or concrete feels like a part of me. It's the same connection and ... " over and over. If necessary to lighten the mood, finish with one play of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  crossovers in socal MIT Students Visit Caltech and UCLA

  

  —Sunset Boulevard is a genuine wonder of traffic engineering, forcing the bus to sit ... a place familiar to me, to rediscover and see new things in those ... materials and equipment. I hadn’t expected to see such a prominent symbol of

  • by Victor D. '27
  • June 6, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  that I closed my eyes to go to sleep and the moment that I woke up. There’s ... , considering the amount of work that you have already put in. But there is ... taking and trusting that somehow in the future, I would eventually graduate

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  'll just have to trust me that these sporadic blog entries will come back to ... [I know this is WAY overdue, since Ring Delivery was a while ago, but I blogged Ring Premiere and it would just seem unfair, wrong even, to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008