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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  of the advising seminars offered. The official title is 21M.123 FASAP ... scene at MIT but also that of Boston. Apart from the 2-hour weekly meeting ... outside of MIT because not only are the tickets for the events often

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  half of those people identify as male, you dwindle down the pool of available men. Factoring in the percentage of the student body that you ... involved you are, the selection gets smaller and smaller. Of course this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  that added another degree of freedom. I tested out some options on the ... knows how many times, and each one has a story, whether it's that of the ... at the start of my sophomore year, the door was not only blank, it was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  many people are on the waitlist? We offered approximately 3% of ... other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission from another ... choosing the best fit college of those who have offered you admission

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  the degree to which the cliches and tropes of college essays had ... college application essays, this is a great time to revisit some of the rules of writing well. George Orwell's Politics and the English Language

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  introduce its attendees to the world of transportation, as seen through the eyes of a potential civil engineering student. Though the seminar ends in ... idea behind freshman advising seminars is one of the student and advisor

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  , that's a lot of capitalized words. During the four years I spent at MIT ... just took The Biggest Exam of My Life Part 2 of 4 (9 hours long!), and ... of the above) Q2. We know you lead a busy life, full of activities

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and ... until recently all of which begs the question: how do people who graduate ... transition from being at one of the greatest intellectual hubs on the planet to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  As you probably know by now, MIT has completed the process of admitting the class of 2010. I am very proud of the Admissions professionals ... overwhelmed with the staff's knowledge of individual cases and their passion and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  other blog posts (you can even check out my first post, The Land of MIT). Wonderful? Out of this world? No, the question is... Can you SURVIVE??? I ... ... Will you be HAPPY (at least ~50% of the time)??? There's a reason why

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school ... about marching to the beat of my own drum or any other idiom. For every

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  man who discovered the first oncogene say, “The street value of NADH is ... fill them up with Gauss this and Gauss that by the end of the class ... at the end of the semester. Oh, by the way, I am pretty sure Professor

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  round, it was a crystal clear 50 degree (Fahrenheit, of course, for the ... schools at MIT) and a lecture hall full of eager audeince members. The ... talk about until the end of time, and my answer was Julia Child. Julia

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  of the piece, I offer extra thoughts. I’ve awakened a deep fascination ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to paint with all the colors of the wind. — Pocahontas from Pocahontas I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  backwards-looking of my own. Kim has a collection of old Techniques (the MIT ... interesting to see what has changed, and what remains the same. Many of you will ... for the admissions officers, that’s for sure... Of course, in 1918

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2014!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... students admitted to the MIT Class of 2014, and especially for the Class of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  what any of those numbers mean - have to force myself to say the actual ... system for freshmen, or any of the wide variety of acronyms that have worked their way into the lexicon of MIT slang. So, when someone asks me

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of ... , “Do you want to see this?” “Yes, I do.” During the fall of my senior ... this conclusion. I simply wasn’t willing to commit the next four years of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  Dear prefrosh, Today, Friday, April 17th, is the first day of ... "]CPW[/annotation] 2020, except it isn’t. It’s the first day of CP*, a virtual answer to ... this event. We’ve all done our best to pick of the pieces of a scattered

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause ... think tank, like the Brookings Institute. There are more varieties of ... Fund, or Fed (generally at one of the Federal Reserve's regional banks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007