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• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  backing vocals, the opening chords of Bohemian Rhapsody are sung entirely by ... is just an awesome gift for somebody, but I looked at the price tag of ... know this because one time, as Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions ... 're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2012!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  with the list of "deal breaker" variables. Who was I and what was ... , academic programs, extracurricular options, diversity of the student body ... could be assured of some admissions offers, but I didn't count on being

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  , having never taken advantage of the "hey kids, look at my schedule!" post ... so much) So, let's take a look at the schedule of a first ... the last of my six Course 9 elective classes, and it's looking to be one

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train ... MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... melancholy, sometimes scary trips on the medley of NYC – Boston busses

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  of you unfamiliar with the Music Cubes, they consist of three cube ... much of MIT’s brutalist architecture, the exterior doesn’t exactly scream ... -minute walk off campus. Now they have a space right in the center of campus

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  the same-old "words of comfort" that adcoms offer to students," and ... description of the current interview process is posted here.  Here in Cambridge ... are telltale signs - a hint of gold above the treetops, an orange leaf

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  listening to old music for the sake of ~ nostalgia ~ and oh boy, these ... musical phases, I'll try and put them into bullet points in the beginning of ... memory of my first ever video I've ever watched on YouTube being the Club

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Aiken concert Sunday night at the Bank of America Pavilion. Though I'm by far the biggest fan of American Idol at MIT, I was still a little ... imagine that you're walking toward that venue, with the intention of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  had nothing to offer me but to tell me to practice. At the start of the ... diagnostic when you first get to campus. The results of the diagnostic help you ... hardest) is best for you. The results of my math diagnostic said that I was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  thought this would be a good idea because I enjoy the entire process of ... -generated playlists are starting to freak me out[/caption] there also was the issue of ... , Thinking Fast and Slow, a renowned tome that delves into the intricacies of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  i'm the kind of person who is very motivated by the prospect of ... any of the goals i set. i was HYPED about starting a bullet journal a ... day of the month. but my streak for filling said chart out lasted a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  don't believe it's the essence of the subject. Could you please tell us ... on the side (hey, it's MIT). It is, as you are probably aware, one of ... issue with this sort of ranking, since the ranking is really for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  This year's commencement speaker, Salman Khan, founder of the Khan ... streets. -- Salman Khan, in his commencement address to the MIT Class of ... was perhaps, then, the best kind of pressure that made me run for my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  One of the many things I love about MIT's dining halls is that they ... a rush, I find it helpful to do a quick scan of the entire dining hall ... . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  we do."]unprecedented number of applications[/annotation] over the last ... challenges. And the bleary-eyed, decision-fatigued humans on the other side of ... with all of our Regular Action applicants.   Thus, in observance of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the ... . Now, instead of using fitted sheets as capes, I buy fabric from the ... and take my first steps into the world of “we don't know why this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  sharing.  What’s the best part of making videos and having a You ... years--was knowing that I was making a difference in the lives of hundreds of kids (and adults!) from across the world. After a while, there was a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to ... rationality is some people's holy grail. emotions get in the way of reason but ... brother, the most stubbornly rational person i know--but of course you can

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The second half of the year I was thrust into a new, thriving, churning

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016