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• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  essays are not advice, or even guidelines. I can only tell you what I did ... GPA, your SAT/ACT scores, etc.—you can’t do anything about those, so ... ? Well, I’m not on any admissions committee, so I can only speculate

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  laptop if they can't fix your old one. But software warranties that cover antivirus scans and backups aren't necessary. You can easily learn those ... PC and a Macbook can function exactly the same and the Macbook will

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  decide. Early action single-choice (Yale) means you can only apply early to one school, but at MIT you can apply early to multiple schools (just, you know, not Yale). Brown is Early Decision, meaning you can only apply

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  short of it is that there are very few people on campus who can grasp ... traditional dining program as you can get at MIT. A $300 dollar fee at the ... Dining Dollars is money you can load directly onto your student ID card

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  ... ------------------------------------- Jasmine wrote, "how do you register for CPW? I can't find any information ... registration form for CPW?" You can register for CPW in your MyMIT Portal. Just ... can do together. I'm also sure someone from admissions will provide more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  'd raise my SAT verbal scores through the roof - to this day I can't remember ... place. It isn't for people who are afraid of hard work, and it can get a ... until the end of freshman year, at which point we can declare "undeclared

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  mutants, but you can't (because they are inviable). Your boss challenges you ... your construct? That's the kind of thing that can't be solved by ... I can pop into unannounced, and I wouldn't feel out of place making an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  . Here are a few myths/traps. How do you know that you can't afford MIT ... 've had a conversation with you child about just how much you can afford to ... quick to point out that I should move on because their parents can

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  elementary school as "filled with friends." i think that's how my life can be ... years at mit, i can say i feel more settled into myself than ever before ... to do, and that's something that can only come with time. now, i have

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel ... . he asked if we needed any help. we said, "yeah, can you get the lugnuts ... . "can we do anything for you? like buy you a coffee or something?" he

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  that, we can let the Great Hunger disappear if we want; we can survive ... canvas of 60 or 70 years ahead of you, and simultaneously, how you can ever ... you can in, say, a coding interview. Increasingly, I feel the weight of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  scarier without friends. It can simply feel awkward fumbling to navigate ... moments are important. You can make memories and build connections. But, in that same vein, I think the benefits can also be reaped from solo

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  can. Thanks, Ekanem BC Front Desk The next day a second email arrived ... swivel at the hook (which means you can hang them on random items, like my dresser door!) and have a looped design that you can hang pants on

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  acronyms can sometimes feel like a fun little game, and someday (hopefully) I ... first week+ here at MIT, so if there’s any acronyms I can explain to you ... interpretation, you can think of FPOPs basically like mini summer camps. They

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  justifications: that I can’t write consistently at MIT anyway so why not do ... they have a system that helps keep everything in balance, and if I can figure out a system, I can fit more into my balance, too. This summer I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  . And sometimes I walk by EC and can’t recognize any of the people sitting ... 's shifted how I approach leaving the house. I can't just go home for lunch ... that I'm more used to biking, it feels more like something I can just do

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  -- descriptions and dialogue that can enhance our understanding of the world and the ... Bohr atomic model sits in the middle of the panel. The background can be black or can be some purple-bluey space color, whichever fits best. There

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  very, very carefully. I can't stay in my room, but at least, just the tiniest bit, I can take it with me. [caption id="attachment_74367" align ... missed. I can't explain it in words, but I feel my self echo back an image

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  also can't bring myself to care? Which maybe is bad. Exercise. Here's another thing I can't bring myself to care about, at least, care about ... resting heart rate is about 85 bpm. I can walk up maybe five flights of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  . Then, I bought a banana plant. Did you know you can just buy banana ... namwah, sold as the former, but I suspect the latter — last spring; you can ... can just cut the top off a store-bought pineapple and put it in dirt and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021