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• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  worldwide? Which topic shall be chosen, A or B? Can I impress those admissions staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely ... ?), I started my essay from scratch. The next two or three hours were a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  for FOREVER. I mean, a year. You can definitely get these around ... need, and where you should buy it, and what you should bring from home or ... won't be doing laundry for a few weeks, though, so you can wait to get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  most fascinating thing but interesting content can only carry a class for ... field trips and buy things for your projects using a budget. The class ... couple of papers a week, which I felt helped me a lot to get context for

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  from those communities, I've put together this blog that details a non ... many things out there that I can't fit in a single blog post, so while I ... subjects.  So for a while now, many discussions have been going on within a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  visited Caltech, but I didn't want to pay for or sit through the flight from ... , and I decided I couldn’t live that far away from my family for four ... decisions and a lot of big changes. You can follow whatever career path you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  demons on depression

  

  can draw a banana. In all respects, I can act like someone who is ... this and asexuality a few months ago. I've known for a while now that I ... hiding from my family for months. That I was depressed, and that I no

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  , and I imagine a lot of our applicants share these sentiments. A million ... 'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply. Your application is read by a senior staff member who will look for deal

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• 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 ... at a sport that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life ... leave. I can't wait to go back and visit as a grad, and reminisce on all

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

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  analytical theory for a moment and ground what I'm saying in some concrete ... to get into MIT" it's not a question I or anyone else can answer ... 'm a huge fan of statistics. I read 538 and Football Outsiders every day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  words maximum) Alessandra Every summer I receive a visit from a person I ... —Ifemelu’s only here for a few more days (246 more pages). Ameer One word. Dance. I ... come from a family of dancers, so I suppose it’s a bit of a hereditary

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  community for everyone! K: If you're thinking about going to MIT (which I ... last well into the morning. Don't let a little drowsiness stop you from ... here. N: I can't tell you how many parents were on dorm tours and at

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  try to figure out where my lecture hall is. It’s in a room I’ve never ... like I got a taste of the power of academia. Nowhere else can you be ... professionals, as I feel like I can never wake up before 9AM. But today I have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  gel thickening agent. I’ve been at MIT for a while: this is my sixth ... built my home; what I need is a snapshot of yours. As I find my way from ... somehow I can’t identify the memory I pulled the song from). Most of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  older, he understood where this instant camaraderie came from--a shared ... members from different schools can all live without having to travel for ... A few weeks ago, I called three friends, AudreyRose ‘21, Nikayah ‘19

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  ’re looking for a UROP in the first place (I trust it’s something other than “I ... far as I can tell, UROPing follows a basic rule of thumb: if you want ... comes. The MIT career office is a great, under-used (from what I hear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my ... for Concourse, ESG is a really great program. You can also sign up for ... 't even mandatory for you anymore and I have no idea what's going on with

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  I have to make, and for a night, it'd feel like I can stay at MIT ... for Carl Joshua, because I have two first names, because a lot of ... . We could stream video games for hours on a voice call. We can take

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

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  ... What do I get for winning? Uh, literally nothing. A sense of pride and ... , for I was one of the gamemasters and have more content to share :D For ... people but i do not remember this meeting at all. cpw is such a blur -p

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  !"]sophomore[/annotation]and as I drive to MIT for Year 2 (I'm writing this in the car :D), I can ... can! Which is a damn good thing, because I'm still hoping to recover from mistakes I was making for all of last year…), but it's so much

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019