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• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  extracurricular activities in an effort to fill this section. NOTE: the application ... for up to 15 activities. I get really miffed when I tell an admissions ... MIT is an all-you-can-eat dessert buffet. In my freshman and sophomore

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  left campus in… an interesting state, but more importantly, it left ... When I say that snow was a statistically significant factor in my ... -Cambridge area, it’s practically a gold mine for snow-related activities, including

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.

  

  can submit an Interview Conducted Form in MyMIT so we know to follow up ... teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in our office by ... deadline. Please allow 10-14 days for the processing of all submitted

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own ... 's Strandbeest stood in the rain on a patch of pavement outside the Media Lab. With wind in their sails, and aided (on a rainy but not-so-windy day) by

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 profile A ststistical look at the incoming freshmen.

  

  Here's a look at this year's incoming freshman class. Over the next week, we'll take a look at some of the individuals in the class... The MIT Class of 2010, by: Gender: Male 55% Female 45% Ethnicity: African

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  regular term classes has officially come to an end. My glasses could use a ... French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past ... brilliant pallor of an airport lounge and sired a beast called restlessness

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry ... Alright, my first serious, thought-out blog entry in quite some time ... , but a few key ones. 1) Classes are harder 2) Classes are in your major

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  propped up in bed and listening to the Toy Story soundtrack. Anywho, I ... I have about 15 minutes to post an entry. Unfortunately I don't have ... me!? Decisions on the 22nd?????????? Ok, time for the debunking to

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  thumbs for an hour as I feverishly try to submit my philosophy essay before ... , but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk ... screen illuminated three sheets of paper covered in a few inked drawings

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  highlighter for, circle in big red pen, make it the focus of your case. In fact ... Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... . No one seems to believe me when I tell them that when I'm reading an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  decide which dorm to live in for the year) is fake too! McGregor, to my ... This post is for incoming freshmen (with a slight bias toward ... started packing for your adventure and I hope you're shaking with excitement

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  past: People often ask me, "How do I stand out in an essay?" or something ... phones back in Cambridge that we've gotten some inquiries about our essay prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear

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

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  , and help figure it out, or have suggestions for what to do in the future ... meeting most of the goals we set in the bullet points at the bottom of that blog. But there's one in particular I've kept turning over in my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  was known primarily for two things: 1) being an absolute hardass of a ... think it's kind of hard. OH, CHRIST. I HAVE NO CHANCE OF GETTING IN." (I ... .) In response to all of these comments, I'd like to deliver a poorly

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  this right now. In fact, those of you who are avid blog readers, writers, and commenters are an even bigger part than others. Here's a brief summary of the article- lots of things happened in 2006, but one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  hobbies. I feel like I can grow more as a person." In an effort to make this ... others like us. Hopefully you learn something! (For anyone who doesn ... and gender presentation. I found MIT to be an incredibly supportive and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  MIT, or your college choices in general, feel free shoot me an email me ... ! Hopefully you'll be able to join us for Campus Preview Weekend. When I was a ... "feel" for a college. I'm really excited to see you guys, the next

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  the party so that I could pretend to sleep for half an hour before ... Yeah, I've been a slacker about writing this up. So in my last entry, Caltech's cannon appeared at MIT for CPW, complete with intricately machined

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  woods. The oaks are the oldest trees in them. For thousands of years ... . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary ... , sister, best friend, chickens, poodle) in the temperate rainforest of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  I, like most college students, have a Facebook account. Actually, for that matter, I have an account for just about everything, but by no means use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009