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  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  classes. The best entries will be posted on this blog. There is a ... Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest! This week, the MIT Class of 2010 ... know their classmates and MIT. Thre are more than a dozen different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  A few weeks ago, I started seeing Staceyann Chin's face in the ... * reading of a work in progress. *I choose the word 'devastating' because during the Q&A following the reading, it was used at least twice in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  soon. I am sitting in a hotel room in Palo Alto that is, perhaps, a ... This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly ... is well, out in the American West; we will just have to see whether I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students having ... , this is only self-reported scoring, we will use official scores in review ... scores from ACT will reach us in a few weeks, in plenty of time for EA

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  , is a beautiful, beautiful phrase (and as I said earlier, I really wish ... are in the "snapshot statshot" Matt just made. 1. Get a slightly ... Big MIT Envelope, arriving in a mailbox near you soon! (Corollary: if

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten years, it was understandably a big deal for me when last Sunday, in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  , "Is there a deadline for deferred applicants to send in supplemental ... It's a beautiful day here in northern Virginia, where I'm celebrating ... counselor claims that because it is a selective english school with a harsh

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  logging in to MyMIT. Students who have completed their applications by ... because we’ll be in committee making decisions about Regular Action applicants and the comments will be closed. But we did want you to know a few

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  writing is like a probability distribution, and writing more gives better chances, in the long run, that you’ll write something good. (As a corollary ... .) Besides, a work is never truly completed. You can always edit blog posts, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  somewhere (MIT!) and that, in itself, is a job creation mechanism. The great ... I'm in a cool HASS (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) class this ... more effective, please share them in the comments. Remember who the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

    Yesterday for Independence Day I was a hobbit. Cory R. ‘14 and I ... a blog post but the bank past the Harvard bridge was already too ... from under a thunderstorm on the street near the Longfellow Bridge. This

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Monday Fun @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  accompanied it said simply: There's no one in the driver's seat. Just a guy in the passenger seat. With a laptop. For the record, that's on 93 South ... this, which is pretty awesome. (I feel like this may have been posted in

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And here I am!

  

  maintained that one learns more in a week of travel than in a month of high ... Well, I'm back in the States. I thoroughly enjoyed everything but I think my soul is still roaming around the south of France. Anyone have

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  vagueness. There is some importance in reflecting upon and understanding which values to prioritize—certainly that is better than wandering in the dark ... is interesting in the moment, instead of working towards some

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  Instagram in over a year, so my profile is cluttered with content from ... , college in a week, "1979" on repeat forever and ever A photo posted by ... I'm trying too hard. Maybe a lot of people are like this--in the first

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  are people who have already graduated still in this pool. There is ... to say that this is by no means a criticism of anyone who participates ... 't know, glassblowing is a notoriously difficult class to get into. You have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  ; After a long Saturday, my friends and I found ourselves chilling in the ... profitablity in placing Taco Bells all around a city filled with broke college students who liked tacos. The closest one was in Northeastern University, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  , there was a knock at my door.  I am a Medlink in East Campus, and I ... stabbing feeling in her stomach. I palpated her abdomen, like a fancy EMT ... kitchen and put a bag inside in case she felt like throwing up, and then got

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  Carolina, who went on a quest to find a Pink Lemonade Celsius near her ... a freezing New England cave. Victor D. ‘27 from California, who ... summer, we are happy to announce our new bloggers! Please give a warm

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... away from where I live. We spent the first two or so hours in a car ... somewhere kind of far out at sea as the sun set. I mused about reclining in a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011