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  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  about you, or in this case your child. Find me an 18 or 19 year old who ... me if I haven't written back to you in the past few weeks. This ... -maaann-what-the-heck-am-I-doing.) MIT, as opposed to some universities both in the United States and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms ... Boston. For more about the community service and fun opportunities in ... editor-in-chief of an MIT research journal as a sophomore, and become

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 ... as an admissions officer is, what do MIT people do after graduating? It ... will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  usually a one day event (some run for a full 24 hours, some less) where teams are presented with an opportunity to come up with an idea and ... , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  Macaroni and Cheese for dinner. Deciding that a little carton of milk couldn ... somehow surviving the treacherous Boston weather. Being an MIT student, he ... , despite its cream-filled protests, was chucked into a refrigerator, in which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  've been immersed in this place for six months. You’re probably sick of ... . “Who will get in? What happens to the people who don’t? Who will I become if I get in? Who will I be, who will I become, if I don’t?” First, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  studied harder for a test than you ever have in your life, maybe, and ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my ... think: all the advice in the world couldn't persuade stubborn me to take

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  my first midterms. MIT has redefined the word midterm for me. In my ... A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It ... huge tubs of Toscanini’s ice cream. Back in our original meeting room, we

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in ... perfect grades aren't the only thing worth considering in an application ... admissions. Why I Chose MIT  In all honesty, there are times (*cough* hell

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  with an extra hour in a day. The three first-years in the group, myself ... These blogs exist for many reasons. Show prospective students what ... for feeling all of those things, or feeling anything else. No matter

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  costarring in it! I've been working all week rewriting some web content for the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the ... Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  on this post alone for the past six days. Most of it, I've been writing in my head...forming the words, stringing them together like jewels on a necklace, trying sentences and paragraphs on for size, then

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  ) there are so many flaws in this haiku I am trying to purify my blood for ... things in vague pseudohaiku. Now where did the haiku come from? I should be ... , so ready for CPW, because I didn’t get to go to CPW when I got admitted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to My Favorite Places on Campus can't leave without making one more post of this format

  

  Lightsaber Club used to meet in here and sometimes I'd stop for a few minutes ... Some people may remember the sporadic posts that I made in this ... going to be useful or informative to anybody, except for future me who

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  enough for this school. I had thought this in the past, almost transferring ... in all of these classes, for the most part, was intention. What choices ... 's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  “ADMISSIONS BLOGGERS---EXPOSED!!!!!!”) Some of you may remember that a(n embarrassingly long) while ago, I wrote a post about personality tests, in ... for all those personality tests! None of this, the tests themselves nor

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  situation. For a month, my father would try to call home only to get an operator’s voice in Spanish, an absurd, confusing moment. These events ... meet back in 5 years. I propose a semi-joking plan to export organic rice

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  :59 tomorrow. If you're on the fence, I have one small bid to make you fall in love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  buildings lining Newbury Street two miles away in Boston. Much of campus, including the Great Dome and Lobby 7, was built in the early 1900s in the ... ’s campus, especially Stata. I personally love the dissonance in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015