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• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  CPW is Monday, April 2, 2007. That's in five days! I know you're all ... writes you nice letters, but can she ROCK you? Oh yes she can. Come see ... pop up every year. I can tell you, having been through 12

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  procure it. You can buy fancy clothes and blue steel at the mirror in the ... different way of doing it wrong. Sorry Chicago. You can confide in other ... things in your life will be determined by complete serendipity. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  of fun, but you'll be limited in the experiences you can have. don't be ... to meet you!!! I know how excited I was for my CPW, so I can only ... ones you're interested in, and go to the ones you're feeling at the time

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  words or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in ... way in which you have contributed to your community, whether in your ... primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of ... dome -- you take the elevators in Lobby 10 up to the fifth floor, and ... can be open all the time because they don't require staff to run. In

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  -sleeved shirt and long underwear; you can get these for cheap at Target. That was ... 're colorful, warm, layer well, and are reasonably priced. You can get 'em for ... match. Fleece layers are also great.  You can splurge for Patagonia

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  Inspired by Ceri's Dear July  Dear July,   You are special this time. Not that you weren’t before, but it’s just that this time you are particularly special.  Because you are the last one that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  shaped how I move through the world, as you may have seen in my blog posts ... — have found meaning in these books too. You may be encountering this ... for you. Back in 2018 — before the adaptation was even announced — my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  -- where else can you close your eyes, dream, and still be productive? Here ... -consuming -- I can’t actually think about nothing when i’m trying out specific techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  Knight where you pick a character and then fight monsters and bosses in ... during a meeting for my UROP 13. Last meme you saw [carousel image1 ... laugh a lot 19. Last person you talked to Fatima> some friends in the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  A 21st birthday has significant significance in the U.S. because you can now drink that special fermented beverage that has basically been ... lactose-intolerant. Although not so much so that I can’t indulge in ice

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  finals studying) Stud Five (the one place you can count on finding me at ... Flows) final exam. Virtual learning has been rough you guys. My body has ... over, I can finally blog about all the things I wanted to blog about but

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  concert So sad. The best I can do is a photo from the concert: 2. Did you ... Jennifer Lai '11 has won the Rhodes Scholarship. This brings MIT's count to 44 Rhodes Scholars, and 7 in the last four years. Below, find Jenn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  . The idea being that if you look up there and see that 28 hasn't hit in ... you do a study correlating home prices and number of faucets in a home ... mistake by saying one CAUSED the other would you? Putting a random faucet in

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  , two musicians can play in adjacent rehearsal rooms and not hear each other at all. (Even with the door open, the sound you can hear in the ... of you unfamiliar with the Music Cubes, they consist of three cube

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  trucks to install GPS in them so they can be tracked constantly. 3. How ... or 3 weeks; they butcher it themselves. PORK. 5. “How much can you ... most of their food preparation in a “commissary” (sort of like a shared

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  "advice you can give me on how to move forward from here." I thanked them ... yourself think that you can't succeed. You're smart...[and] an enjoyable ... 't underestimate that value in where you end up." He finished by saying "I have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  help, and the great insight you provide to those of us looking in from ... Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense? Well, you're not alone. Tomorrow is the second annual Blog Action Day

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  working at Capital IQ in NYC this summer. We write software that can be used ... everyone, As you may know, I am not-so-secretly a blogger for MIT Admissions ... MIT students (being, ourselves, awesome) do for the summer. So if you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  . The emphasis in Splash is on what you’re teaching, or how many classes ... . Especially if you’re now in your second year at MIT and feel like surely you must have learned something, but now you can’t remember a single thing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016