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  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  -and-done type of person. I thought that, after about 16 years of school, there was ... I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... lol) as a real-time reflection of four years at MIT.  Today is hectic

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  ’t updated it lately. It’s not because I’m tired of writing- I’m not. And it certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever ... . Some of you brilliant prospective MIT students know exactly what I mean

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers ... read an old MIT brochure from the 1980s I discovered at a school I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office ... pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper's office in the Student Center. Last night was one of those nights; let me

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  Even though we’re only two weeks into the start of the Spring semester, I have already taken a final exam. In the midst of sitting down for first-days of classes and reading through new syllabi, I also frantically

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on ... as brilliant as some of the professors are, we still get super excited when something like this happens (kind of equivalent to when famous

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  their detailed study of Chicago’s exam schools, MIT professors Glenn ... sophomore year of high school. I felt as if I’d been transported to another ... choose MIT over peer schools is the community, in all of its colorful

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  topped with pecorino) with three of the teachers from the school, I said ... that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  participating in extracurricular activities. Years of attending a school that ... rise up and out of the toxic shadow of her school and friend drama. It ... all of the spotlight for this blogpost."]Maybe, but true

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  live, was thinking of having a "high school dance" party, where we'd all ... choice that I would be devoting much of my time to school and labwork, and ... capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... community.   What IS Cru? Cru is a caring community of individuals committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  exercise! We lift, run, dance and generally touch grass. One feature of MIT ... lifted in (almost) all of them and chronicled/tier-listed them below for ... to take part. In addition to the confinement of hours like Gloria noted

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really heartbreaking. Takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there for a school with ... . Was it really possible that I could go to MIT? Of course not, I was just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  respond to this question - it's taken me a while to answer a lot of ... particular question, however, stuck with me because all of the options seem to ... away from school, especially at dinners with family friends that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  a good taste of graduate school this way, which was my whole intent ... the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences      Did you know ... effective. So, we should really be taking more advantage of that in robotics

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  attending an affluent suburban high school. Regardless of one’s background ... the dilemma of racial identification on college application forms, with great interest. In my role as the Director of Minority Recruitment, I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  were valedictorians of their high school. Aha! MIT must highly value ... , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... : MIT should release the full set of admissions data stripped of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative safety, clean air, and good public schools. It felt unusual to have so ... crossword puzzles, seeing high school friends, and missing MIT. I had intended

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  parents and me in the US until my sophomore year of high school. I could go ... volume of the angstiest metal we could find, heartbroken at the thought of ... . Never before have I experienced such intense feelings of belonging and joy

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  system, but doesn't offer any examples of the problems. At the end of the ... QUOTE: (i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech ... you can think of an everyday English equivalent. (vi) Break any of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009