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• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  , under tech! MIT is a place where I can play a heated bout of Super Smash ... anticlimactically canceled, but I still went for a nice run with a couple of other ... students from across the social spectrum. I can’t imagine anywhere else that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  riots, but it is a place where students believe in working for change in ... spare parts and a tool box. Grommit had 5 questions, for which I have ... ?) asked, "How does MIT weigh SAT IIs vs. SAT I?" From a technical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  questions ranging from "write a function that searches through an array for ... YOUR HAIR HAS ROOM FOR! Need more color in your hair? We can fix that ... of mathematics dealing with the different ways that you can embed a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  tracking page then. Some frequently asked questions: Can I send missing ... ’t think I was applying Early Action, or I've changed my mind. Can I switch ... withdrawn from consideration. Thanks again for your patience and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  make a quick collage? You can use existing images from magazines and your ... see what happens. “Just see what happens, Mom? I have a plan for this ... myself from being such a mom and work on leaving the room. But I actually

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  memorable and it's stuck with me for a while. I don't think this poem does the ... desires.   i feel like for a man who has raised me for twenty years ... shit' is one I borrowed from my ex boyfriend, who used to say it a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  for working in a lab. Copying over from my last post, since I've been ... . Traveling I traveled a lot this summer. I was in the US for a while and went ... a voucher for this British airline for a cancelled flight, so I ended

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  have known me for a few weeks]. Who should I ask to write letters on my ... "hey can you write a letter for me" and then enter their email into the ... sentences might be different —  "I transferred schools, and..."; "I took a mix

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  thing I suggest is getting a T-Pass. During the semester, I don't plan on buying one, but this summer it made for a great resource. With my T-Pass, I ... as I wanted. And the big plus, on Sundays I could bring a friend for

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  become a better programmer: I want to reach the point where I can write ... , ready for change, and safe from bugs.[/annotation] I knew I lacked ... I'll tell you where I went, who I took a walk with, or what we talked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  rewritten the optional essay for my application and I just can't get it to a ... ?*supplementary material*5)can i send in my poems,stories and ...outlines for novels?...how?where ... questions as I can. It's a long entry! Before we get to that, though, I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  school. CS can be hard for beginners, more so at MIT, so I'm at an area where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since ... , where I made this rudimentary text-based adventure game and also played a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  Rats for ninety years, and they're a hugely important part of MIT ... our shiny new rings. The ring buying period has just concluded for the ... younger than the ring itself.) For starters, I wanna say that I got all

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  infrastructural power. Under this alternate definition, I establish a framework for ... revelations undermine any presumption of Facebook as a neutral pipeline for news ... . ... Calls for more public accountability...can only proceed once we completely

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.

  

  . As is my custom, I wore a tie today, out of respect for the applicants ... for in MIT students, we can usually reach consensus after a bit of ... , undoubtedly, make selection even more difficult this year. I can tell already

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  i think i have achieved a state where i feel like i should be ... email can get sent to. so for example, a list like [email protected] can ... social lists can range from small to large. i know some people have small

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  . Draft #3, October 15: I come from a world where creativity was my weapon ... : 2486 October 20: I come from a world where creativity was my weapon ... : 246 October 23: I come from a world where a family was not composed of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  ! Apple Bake has been a fall culinary tradition in Burton-Conner for the ... floors go out, buy some ingredients, and make a few dishes, Conner 2 organizes a mass shopping trip for over $100 of food the Friday before the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  some point this semester, I did have to ask a friend where the hell ... credit from being a varsity athlete, so I don’t technically need to take ... a tangent. I think the biggest thing that I will take away from MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  always certain where it comes from, but I’ve still been able to feel a ... exercise I did before for the program I participated in last summer. A little over a year ago in July 2019, I wrote a blog post for my summer program

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020