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• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  great place to work and be a student. 1. MIT is very diverse -with no ... in Illinois is paving the way for what will soon be something for more ... what it appears to be: an optional self-identifier. No smoke or mirrors

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  hope you'll like what you see. It will look familiar, obviously, but ... this year, nor is there the need to decide whether or not the "optional" essay is really optional. Instead what you will find are three short

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  online a PDF of what she will be eating while she's in space. Day 1 dinner ... Stefanyshyn-Piper '84 SM '85 (Commander, USN) will become the 24th MIT graduate ... 'd probably do a career in something math and science. Back in the late '70s or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A New Year and a New ‘Do bryan.mitblogs.com gets a little makeover.

  

  think about the new look? Should I keep it like this or go back to the old version? HAPPY JANUARY 1!

  • by Bryan
  • January 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  Has a Headache: 1. By Christian teaching, sloth is one of the seven ... awake. The rest of this post will be about things I did yesterday in ... desk will make you appear far more approachable to students than the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I defer my enrollment?

  If you're admitted to MIT, you may defer enrollment for one or two ... , you will be asked to submit a formal request for deferment to the Dean ... military, or religious service. Please note that you may not defer enrollment
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  will win--Longcat or Tacgnol?" Definitely Tacgnol. Unless the battle ... you don't see your question or if you have another one, feel free to ... very stylish or are jeans and a sweatshirt a common outfit? There is a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  , which will make it harder to figure your shit out or build friendships ... freshman-upperclassman relationships are strictly forbidden until November 1 ... . although I had no relationship experience, or life experience in general, pea

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  "Globalization" (University of California Press, 2004), Professor Jenkins writes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  admissions will never tell you. I do this because this is why I feel the blogs ... guidelines. 1) Make sure it's relevant to applicants 2) Make sure it's not out ... . They are not designed to personally attack bloggers, prefrosh, or other

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  ’s episode of [annotation note="censored bc idk if it's trademarked or not ... 200+ clubs that exist at mit need to have people running them or ... fahrenheit... but this is 21 deg celsius or ~294 Kelvins, whichever your

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  extracurriculars or the people who sat next to me in class. I was the proud introvert ... someone claimed that most CEOs and/or successful people are extroverts. So ... , everyone is a nErD!!1!!1! Being smart was no longer a distinguishing identity

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  , with classes resuming, my average time leaving the lab was around 9 or 10 ... officially became a member of WMBR, mit's college radio station (88.1 fm)!!! i ... 'm thinking of making it worm-or-yarn-themed in some way... i saw someone

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  going for, so i just thought i missed an idiom or something. tis always ... thoughts can and will, of course, happen before and after junior year, but I ... things about life. Here are some excepts: [carousel image1="97520" image2

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I ... publishable research in high school was a thing) actually is through course 1 in ... have me on board with no coding ability or past experience!. The

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief ... three or four of those people. Just this week, we've had an activist, a ... research with a post-doc at the Saxe Lab, but since Dr. Liane Young will be

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  . Honestly pi day is pretty awesome, but that other thing that's going on will ... thoughts having been there. Take them, leave them, this: 1. Not everyone ... hopefully you're not like me, and will be willing to give it some thought. I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Time Management Reading this article adds +15 to Time Skills

  

  some basic principles I've gleaned from my notes and handouts: 1) Make a ... are lost. If this happens to you, you will be sad. You don't want to be ... inspired and motivated from a seminar or a new technology, but you've got to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Hollis resident who is interning at Google this summer and will attend ... architect Frank Gehry's funky new building. Smith will attend the ... school, or other folks, for the presidential scholar program. The winners

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  fellow residents for help. I got some excellent responses, which I will ... home and why, what makes the dorm more or less homey, and what are the ... . We talk about physics at parties, or we use the dance floor we built as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017