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  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  didn't have much of an audience in those first months, so blogging wasn't one of my top priorities. For me blogging was almost an afterthought - I was so busy trying to make MyMIT live up to its promises that I had

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  unpublished post of mine from nearly three weeks ago. Apparently I started ... being insanely busy, but this is just ridiculous. Let's try this again ... my friends that I have a 4.0 at MIT! Granted, none of them know that we

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  I've also been really busy working on problem sets. It'll just be another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... until the middle of the night--it makes me nostalgic for my own Freshman

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  imaginative problem solving. The MIT School of Architecture and Planning offers ... Technology. The MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences offers ... More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... slightly entertaining the idea of a [annotation note="Business management"]15 ... management has been pretty obvious. In high school, I lead a lot of different

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  offer (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will ... waitlist. This year, a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll ... other school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  front of you. As best I can tell, your school gives a grade for each ... middle school. Can I still send in a Music Supplement without a Letter of ... of German in Middle School, I tested a year of German in High School

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  describe the unveiling of 2008 Brass Rat. Brass Rat? That's right, MIT has ... -growing infestation, one rat is chosen out of the many scurrying about campus to be ... played a prank on us this year. Actually, the Brass Rat is one of the most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  , yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of ... : "May we offer you a drink of life's water, a water so replenishing and ... , the 350th day in the 50th week of 2011 and 282 days ago, no big deal

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? ...about the legend of RB Woodward? RB Woodward, MIT SB '36, PhD '37, basically came up with the idea of using spectroscopy to determine the structure of organic compounds. This is about as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  write 6,000 words of blog entries on an 8-hour train ride, if you just ... the form of a McDonald's in Marseille, France. Seriously. As Samuel L. Jackson prophesied so long ago, their main hamburger is indeed called a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  [/annotation] and because they can help offer an unfiltered view of what I’ve been doing for ... don’t have many close friends from high school. in a state of loneliness ... it happened again. after finishing my second round of midterm exams

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  -four designers from MIT, Harvard, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. One semester to create an outfit out of––you guessed it––trash. From collecting ... the other UA Sustainability committees, the audience, and a panel of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  School, in Deerfield, Ill., says a member of the 2006 graduating class was ... Trier High School, in Winnetka, Ill., tells of visiting a small liberal ... School who will attend Brown University in the fall, recalls a tour of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  school asked in their main essay to describe a “moment of truth,” I focused ... I did not graduate on time. At first, I thought, I'm not one of ... started senior year with two majors, a minor, and a 4.8 GPA and a habit of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I AM SO BUSY

  

  Sweden to Abisko. Should be a lot of fun, and I promise to post pictures

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  Anonymous asked, For the most part is there an over sense of community, school ... of stir-fry, but I also didn't want to eat hamburgers and hot dogs ... matter how attractive you are, there are plenty of people at MIT who are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  to be offering this $200 rebate promotion on a wide selection of phones ... don't really have my finger on the pulse of American youth culture (and I'm not premed anyway), but my experience was that in high school, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  scheduling app. OK, BBQ at Burton Connor. Walk out of Kresge. Have to pass through the Kresge BBQ pits on my way to Burton Connor. Grab a hamburger to eat on the way. Classic. Arrive at Burton Connor. Lots of people. Grab

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  of med school, and starting to agonize over which one of these to ... get to know you more off-the-paper. This is not a business school ... provide a general time frame of "what's next?" -I offer all of my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013