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• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  minor in Course 17 (Political Science). Now, that said, let me tell you a ... can jump in a pool whenever it gets too hot. Plus it's a pretty cool ... here I am. I guess the point I'm trying to make here is that you can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  the most of these next 4 years – you’re in for such a treat! For those ... In my last entry, way back in June 2013, I painstakingly bid good-bye to life at MIT and in particular, to the MIT blogs (direct quote

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  management tools and strategies that I can implement in the future. Only two ... A few days ago I got back from what I can only describe as a four ... … Day One Hello! I am currently typing this in 14 degree weather, snuggled

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  my strobe lab team tried saying hi to Danny, who he thought was me, in ... at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE ... and Engineering) is extremely flexible! So as opposed to in K-12, when

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  sciences, working for New Horizons. She graduated undergrad in '13 with a ... pick out details on Pluto as small as the ponds in New York City's Central Park.   Photos of Pluto in 1930, 1996, and 2015 pic

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  you're reading right now, which redesign we undertook in 2010. We ... , you can see a big change over time as "the conversation" about our blog ... communities that we can help convene how to be a rock in the stream, a place

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Does the transcript submitted on my QuestBridge application count as official?

  If the transcript on your QuestBridge application was sent by your counselor/school official, it fulfills our requirements for an official transcript and no further action is needed on your part.
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  be clicked for larger versions. You can read more blog posts by and ... Shaena B. '13 and Jen W. (grad student in Biological Engineering). They had ... cyclist friend Matt R. ’13 (used to be ’14; pictured below), who recently

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  reason for this: I am me, and you are you. Everything that I can recommend ... to get into MIT”; I could tell you the things that I did in high school ... going through college: I can tell you what would have been good advice for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  in the end they want to know the same things: who you are as a person ... actually come up to them and asked, "Do you have jobs? Can I have one ... . Ouch. You know, I looked at the clock when she came in. It was 8:59 and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  with it, I just can't imagine a class laying such an egg in my schedule ... Loved Rhetoric with Strang. I can say that now because I got my name picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  seniors and juniors, so my sophomore friend and I did not get in. So I was ... tutor in the class. My tutor was awesome and helped me through the material, and she helped me understand that what I am going through in the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  in the eye and basically tell them "I don't have enough time for you ... 'm slowly starting to learn how to quiet the small voice in my head that says "You ... string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  , without a judgement in her voice, pure and simple, “Why do you cover your ... a while -- we weren’t for four years -- but once you are, nothing can ... realized we started reading the MIT blogs when we were still in the thick of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  awake one morning to find the zombie apocalypse hath begun. You are in ... Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of ... consciousness between an otherwise unbroken day of naps to share with you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  backed by data, I went to my hotel room, counted the words in those essays ... I'm in New York City now, staying in a hotel a stone's throw from the ... section. In March, Les Perelman attended a national college writing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  abysmal amount of time[annotation note="oops can u tell this has been in the ... essentially went in a giant loop back to Course 20 :^) If you know me ... double major in[annotation note="Biological Engineering"]Course 20

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  ? Wouldn't they have told you about the ring there? Well, in fact... Almost ... the week following Ring Premiere) in Lobby 13 and walked my way down the ... dollars!" MMmmmmm. Good feeling. More of that in 2020, thank you! So anyway

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  -lovable Elizabeth, '13, by snapping a picture of one of these people in uncomfortably close range. Even if you can take a guess on who they are, you haven ... we can assume is a constant, akin to death and taxes. Naturally, almost

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

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  quantity to crowd out interest in the common good. Because when you get to ... supporting our communities in meaningful ways so that we can create a society in which everyone can thrive and succeed. From what I have seen of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016