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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  one. So, if you're looking at schools and the presence of Hillel on ... kind of delicious Kosher jelly candy for passover, both stuffed into my ... president describing his inability to run Hillel any longer with his busy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  and the fallout kept me pretty busy for the following couple of weeks ... think he deserves some sort of trophy, don't you? Before I tell you about ... part of building this community, and I'm really, really going to miss

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for Christmas with my fam. I went out last night with two of my high school ... school letter of rec writers!), but it was largely a formality. I filled

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  are you waiting for? Teachers get very busy this time of year, respect ... before most schools notify. Having an interview with MIT does not violate ... music community or our arts community, consider sending in some of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  , we’ve both always gotten new agendas at the beginning of each school ... decrease in number of tasks, was that I was so busy that I forgot to use my ... our entire lives (at least during the semester). Lots of people use

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  one of the school dances. And don’t forget to make it to prom. Take lots ... schools, met with students and parents, and just spread the good word about ... between. My trip was a lot of fun! I saw the Pacific Ocean…… ….got lost

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  's questions: We know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which ... As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  Networking is important. Probably one of the most important skills ... number of students who got their job through networking, on-campus recruiting, direct applications etc. Less than 20% of students got their job

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  mom). Yes, I am, but I've just been very busy/lazy/boring. The only ... as many of your options as possible. Campus visits really helped me narrow my decision down to two schools, and there is no better way to get a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  ). I took a lot of AP classes in high school. In fact, I took 14 of them ... schools. Incidentally, when I Googled my name the first page of results ... because on the rare occasions I visit it, so much of what's on it makes me

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in ... toward the goal of getting into a top school, and it's been portrayed to ... -on stuff, outside of a lab, was scary), or any math beyond the General

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  I know a lot of you are stressed. You have busy brains with rodent ... puzzling at the end of eighth grade, but as high school dug its claws into me ... school teacher, encourage you, a cool reader of the MIT blogs, to go for it

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  MIT Class of 2017!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it ... concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions ... the fairest treatment of waitlisted students. If you need more time: If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share ... included the Chief Engineer of General Motors and an engineer from Texas Instruments who designed a sensor that detects the weight of a passenger and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  School in the North Shore suburbs of Chicago), but it was a lot more ... Mira Nair came to speak last year and kind of offered my friend a role in ... Julie Mallozzi to do a screening of her film at your school. It's a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  The Proposal One part hack + two parts romance = Lobby 7 love!

  

  middle of finals week. Under the cloak of being busy with such trivial ... Many hacks at MIT celebrate something: the 100th anniversary of this, the debut of that, the screening of this, the inauguration of that, etc

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with ... desires. In middle school, I was quiet, and I would just observe how people ... mathematics of people”. It just took a random idea when I was in 9th grade that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  my hair blue was as a junior in high school. After months of seeing and ... past, all of the bloggers you see here on this site have applied using ... note="i like to think of myself as a Real Adult"]Real Real Adults

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that!) that reached the finals of the International Space Settlement Design Competition) - ( obviously an infintesimal of Prof. Schrock's research!) I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  school? I went to a very rural, very public school in the middle of nowhere. My school graduate only about 60% of its students; most people end up ... think. For an elite school, MIT gets a pretty good number of first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006