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  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  ruin a large chunk of your senior year of high school. Instead of trying ... you may be at another school." MIT Admissions knows which types of ... , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  . Then there's seminar advising, where your advisor leads a small group of students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... We excited prefrosh also received the results of the HASS-D lottery. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  creatively titled School Year Edition of this guide that shall be written at a ... The Introduction This is only part of a comprehensive guide I hope ... not an expert by any means on any of these things. Whatever I have

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... 02139. My flight was set to leave in the morning from the B terminal of ... parents, and my mother handed me a package of peanut M&Ms and an

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  swing of things and begin posting regularly again. When we last left each other, I'd finished the hardest semester of my undergraduate career. I ... degrees and got a whole lot of planning experience being the operations

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven ... I was five years old the first time someone accused me of witchcraft ... , from Harry Potter. Flattered, I tried to imagine that it was because of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  page, this represents an increase of more than 2,000 applications; this ... calling your school to get them. For other students whose grades have been ... processing of midyear grades, calling to check on the status of your midyear

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  quite simple: MIT has a middle school crush on weird ... , MIT is like "I WANT WEIRD STUFF, GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME!" Of course, MIT has its fair share of boring buildings as well. Take, for example

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  as to what your next year of school may look like). I have two psets ... I should NOT be writing this right now because I have a ton of other ... middle of my Thursday doing random stuff for CPW and then I UROP from 2

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  My holiday story: At the end of December my son's preschool decided ... gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in school the following day. My wife and two of her close friends whose children are in my son

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  about it? This is an image from one of my favorite Twitter accounts ... Memorial Drive side instead of Amherst Alley because I don't quite grasp the ... . In high school (and middle school, and elementary... and college), I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  six MIT students walk into a german bar iap '26 #2

  

  the story behind, but that one of the high school teachers gave us a ... students can take part in a variety of opportunities or take a much ... time, in which MIT students are sent to dozens of countries around the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 16, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  full of personal matters on top of school, not to give in to indifference ... school. But of course, not everything went perfectly no matter how much I ... be) be representative of today in history as told by a twenty

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  hussies", because you are the best judge of which school is best for you, I ... roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  , which led to a long series of crying over graduate school applications ... of my last remaining graduate school applications. 15/01/2025 4 ... requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  … since I was a freshman in high school.” I’m a classic case of falling down ... , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... of calm consideration. They have a really lovely ambiance, with

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  lot of chicks while I was in elementary school in Singapore." More ... broaden out in graduate school. Here's the first slide of my class: And ... Splash stats: 2670 High School students 517 teachers* 701 classes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of files. One of them contains a lot of documents that I definitely wouldn

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parent event offerings based on feedback, requests, and questions. Some of ... I know there are lots of parent blog readers out there lurking... this entry is for you, and is specifically about CPW (regardless of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  three days felt like the longest three days of my life. My total sleep ... 's atmosphere of absolute energy. I remember a large bouncy castle and ... hugged me on sight, and I remember the utter feeling of overwhelming joy as

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014