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• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  archives to the posts from mid-December. There's a post every year for EA ... ” by Anna H. ‘14 The process of making what you can from a ... . Like, for real, it’s not about that at all. A positive decision

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  it. Can i really write anything for it? (for instance, just a hobby ... a copy of the site in a CD and send it to MIT or can I refer them to the URL and have a look at it online? Can I have a peer recommend me? I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  nothing more of it for two months. One Month Before Bad Ideas I had a plan for IAP. A blissful period of rest, exploring Boston museums, baking ... dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  of coping with being away from home. My only good advice for homesickness is merely this: don't stay in your dorm room. At least for me, I ... meet new people, and trying new things - the better I adjusted to a new

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  already doing this one for Halloween. After much deliberation, I came to a ... point where I was at dire risk of starvation by oatmeal on a certain ... exam, as I groggily clicked on an email from the course administrator for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  from the other side of the veil: I applied EA to MIT a few years ago, got ... hopes; MIT had been my dream for so long. I felt like a new version of ... car keys brightly decorated with a keychain from the college I chose to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  to a river pathway where I could bike to the mall with my sisters, or ... until I was eighteen. Then I moved around a lot, from southern Arizona to ... florist from whom I bought a [annotation note="I took the rose to lab. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  committee. That night I edit 50 pages of copy for the new viewbook in preparation for a meeting the next morning. (Lunch: Mass Ave food truck ... until the group comes to a unanimous decision. If one can't be reached

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  , there is a community here mourning with you and for you. Now I say to you ... Newtown, CT. I got home that night, ready to study for the final that I just ... the phone that night. "I'm about to watch a movie," he hastily answered

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  Didion: Are you seeing a trend yet? I can’t get enough of this woman ... time I’m about 50 years late to the trend, so you can judge me for not ... writes songs, I take a huge amount of inspiration from Mitchell

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  awesome creepy skeleton guys grabbed a burger from In and Out Burger, I ... ." "And I'm Chris." "Nice to meet you, where are you from?" "MIT" "Ah! Our ... me. We sat down at a table for dinner and chatted, ate our fajitas. I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  's website. I didn't feel like sifting through the actual dataset for a minimax ... video after video for an hour. It was a good break from my usual MIT ... from [annotation note="A big data labeling tech startup that I used to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  actually knowing where I am. In some cities, this is a very foolhardy and ... , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a ... “I live in a town of around 4,000 people, and a two hour drive from the ... school looks for. I want to become an engineer, so finding a good school

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  type of place. I feel most at ease in a big city where I can get lost in ... friends would be in Paris for a semester-long exchange program, and I wanted ... here, for the first and last time of my Europe trip, I bumped into a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  social media for as long as I can remember, from my cousin playing Call of ... blog, but also as a reminder for myself that this is what I'm thinking at ... and buying my own Steam games for the first time. Media has been a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  for those who aren’t sure where to get started. There’s also a good ... the different ways that you can get one, written from a student ... and/or summer. You can even get paid for it, which is awesome. [caption

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of public transportation. It was only a few years ago that I stopped taking

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  . Once I get a solid foundation going, for the classes for which I can ... heads' start. No, I haven't started studying for a final that early, ever ... created a list of topics I need to cover and material I want to revise. For

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  drive home to New Hampshire for a hockey game. My brother and I were part ... Manchester. Today my brother and I will head to "The Gahden" for a Bruins game ... When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009