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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ideas, which were then converted to kits and assembled by students in an ... student’s only sleep in 2 days was 45 minutes lying in the back of an ... -wearing rabbit. For the Technical Review, however, we're in decidedly worse

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  money in application fees, counselors get mad at you for making them work ... da Vinci write, in golden font at the base of the painting, "Look at ... , standing in the limelight, I look over at my teammates and can't help but

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  in an unfamiliar environment will be better for me. I’d be getting a ... Boston. It got delayed, so I had to stay in Boston for another night ... that it was fine to stay for the night because I had friends in MIT that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  for me, I’ll be going to Beijing, China. I’ve been looking at MISTI ... . Hoping for favorable Internet conditions in China so I can blog there ... … in China… speaking Chinese…all the time…” My friends look at me with

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a ... post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... have an interest in you and actually put in most of the initial effort in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  walk in, even if only for an hour or so. My least favorite part of ... you are able to meet an MIT admissions officer at your high school, in ... regional term you use for a major road that you drive relatively fast on

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  spacious. There are rooms for both the quiet and the conversational. In this ... In 1870, [annotation note='This was a “special case”, one-off situation that did not necessarily set precedent for admitting more women

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  I live in East Campus. I could tell you that CJ is short for Carl ... favorite artists. Or we could go on an adventure. There’s this nice spot in ... ’m an international student from the Philippines, or that I live in East

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  done with classes, which left me in an uncertain state for the future ... ’ve been looking for a job in the Bay Area [2013]. I’d like to work on ... -3) Currently, I am looking for a software engineering job in the video game or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  -ever admissions officer, Dr. James Libby Tryon.'] for as long as there had been an ... authorized campus access at an unmarked service door at the basement level of our building; he ushered me in and we exchanged an awkward hello after

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  nimble adjective for describing things that look exactly as they should. Ex ... reserved for situations in which you are completely lost in a hallway that looks precisely the same as every other hallway you've seen in the last 15

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling ... born and nominated for an Oscar. An entire person came into the world and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  . None of them filled the niche I was looking for, which was a whiteboard ... ="70805" /] I'm reminded of an essay, Hackers and Painters. In it, Graham compares ... general, is like painting. But in an even narrower sense, front

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... Friday. I had an icky week. I had four exams in four days, one of which ... looked tired. I think that I nodded. He gave me a hug. I got in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting for Decision Day In which I give a pep talk of sorts (with a little help from my…

  

  nervousness, looking for distractions, forcing yourself to pretend like there ... motivation to excel in high school and slowly figuring out an answer to “how ... might lift your spirits: An Open Letter to MIT Applicants and Life is Like

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  these words in an abstract for one of his papers: "When a man sits with a ... in. But part of being human means acknowledging some limitations. For ... know whether you're in. Right now. But that's not good for you, let

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  study the evolution of spectatorship in the videogames space and looking ... for my CMS.300 paper. In terms of how I found sources, I spent a lot of ... : Fuchs, M. (2017). “Ruinensehnsucht”: Longing for decay in computer games

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Tech - I wrote an opinion piece for them! :) 73. Learn the true meaning ... . Pull an all-nighter in the Reading Room - I've came close, but not quite ... ) 29. Attend Charm School - I actually was in town this year for Charm

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy ... yet!). In all seriousness, I'm not really an astrologer, so take ... predicted for your sign or not, the pieces of advice for every sign in this

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  hoodie and smoking a cigarette. Nursen O. ‘15 You email out looking for an ... . You blink and look down at the studfinder in your hands. I give you a studfinder. You blink and look down at the studfinder in your hands. You cannot

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016