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  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  finished a 7.012 Biology pset early Wednesday morning, I wrote an essay for ... I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting ... . Also, the pset and exam somehow cover different material. And I have a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was ... lacrosse, water polo and crew competitions for the first time. I joined the ... tournament by Rowan University. This week, I met with two players from this

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  ’re walking in. I spent a few evenings last summer and this winter so far ... (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of ... the Charles River was through a downpour, when I was temped in Mac

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  really, really like postcards, and so I buy a lot of them, and sometimes a ... campus. I found it at a bookshop I stopped by on my way home from a doctor's appointment, right before I went to Best Buy to pick up a [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  , I stumbled into some accidental admissions archeology. For nearly a ... Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... professional movers got to work. Prohibition style, I met a colleague with

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  rappelling from the ceiling of the auditorium; my team's involved a real ... ”.   A photo from the Build Challenge.  Students sketched out ... ways for exploring ideas. It’s not cheap to have such a big focus

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  meet back in 5 years. I propose a semi-joking plan to export organic rice ... , where I did a project about different types of coffee brewing methods and ... can achieve the steps from plant to flour. Exporting needs to be figured

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  . Without getting too into detail, so you can see for yourself, it's about a ... only took roughly two weeks to make. I'm not a professional, far from it ... -and-outs of making a film—from the very beginning of storyboarding and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  whole lot easier said than done, but don't for a second doubt your worth ... realities come from big dreams, we are sure that you are on a great path ahead ... heartbreaking it felt. We obsessed over MIT unhealthily to the point where going

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  read an old MIT brochure from the 1980s I discovered at a school I ... majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book ... at age 17, we don't expect that you've discovered a cure for Alzheimer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  hat on it. (EDIT: For real. I got him a Nintendo DS Lite, a new pocket ... pi reunion this summer. (Yay!) I'm currently a third-year PhD student ... professors from my program -- it's considered rude to ask a graduate student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  answer you’re looking for. I wish we could just give you a perfect black ... our applications. It’s not anything I can explain – you just know when ... .) Here’s an equally important message: I saw the “perfect match” in a bunch

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  a bit of personal direction. the moment i realized it was okay for my ... grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do ... celebrate less than 100 days left at MIT!   a few days ago i

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  spill from my fingertips: dropping a class for the first time, changing my ... in a way that ultimately is best for me? These are questions that I ... contracted, collapsing from a community to a few lonely souls haunting a space

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... in 15 students at MIT came from a foreign country, possibly the highest ... early international students. I'm an immigrant from Ukraine, so it was

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall ... while I was here.   32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However ... like common sense, but considering I wrote my entire main essay for UChicago the night it was due, I figure a few of you might need this reminder

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... freshmen and score lots of free food, but I had a class taught by Pulitzer

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on ... . Holy moly, I'm still reeling from the geniusness of this group. Now I ... this magical science place. But before I do, a big disclaimer is that I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  ; Yes, that is a Ford Model T, hanging from the roof. The car, which ... pulled up the side of the dorm where I lived during my sophomore year. It ... If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016