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  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  many hours of discussion and back-and-forth, we've selected seven new ... campus, settling into their new dorm rooms for the year; classes are starting, with so many cool things to be learned; and as of today, the world

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  sense of community that they found at mit, the exhilaration of solving ... . at the end of high school — and honestly, for the majority of my life ... this). This is another one of those. It was written by Janelle Salanga

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  community? a university town? Sometimes I'll use the power of the web to help ... , or or Wednesday, or a Friday, or possibly another day of the week, so it's a "Reading Day." I have already picked up a big stack of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  Name: Mari McQuaid Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions ... University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art ... on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood ... of emails since Saturday and a bunch of blog comments, all asking for "just a couple of sentences" about why a specific applicant was not

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  space. One of the walls, deeply red, bore the letters: Boston University ... take classes and ultimately earn a Boston University Bachelor of Arts ... paintings by one of the inmates. I remember staring at those pictures, the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  some of the world's more pressing issues (at least with regard to America ... Amnesty International's MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  Venus of Urbino, lounging naked women that Titian would draw staring at ... at least five copies of Machiavelli’s The Prince -- all in Italian. It ... now and then, I’d stare out the window -- of my car, of a plane, of a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  training for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University ... of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short ... here on out. Our week-long training was almost entirely composed of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now ... admission to MIT. This is an unprecedented increase of approximately 62% from ... are very proud of, and grateful for, all their hard work. I also know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  (A quick note before I start this post: My intro would be kind of ... kicked out of MIT. I’m in the process of writing a blogpost about this ... heavy. I wanted to post something lighter before I go into all of that

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  , MIT Sloan MBA ’14, was reminded that he was at one of Latin ... at most 1.5% to the bottom line. There was a lot of skepticism ... a list of things I didn’t learn!" Volaris From the

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  won’t feel the pain Nine. We were informed of our new rooms on Thursday ... feelings to process. But the weird part about all of this is that I feel very little, oddly enough. Sure, there’s that vague feeling of missing people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  ... Once you were here, MIT offered a fine range of Courses (our numbered way ... backwards-looking of my own. Kim has a collection of old Techniques (the MIT yearbook), and flipping through the pages from as far back at 1918, it was

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  power of two!" you would be offered automatic admission. I hear that we ... a few lectures at MIT in the Spring of 2003 before disappearing back ... beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  , Bridger celebrated his arrival at one of the world's most renowned ... design at MIT: I've said this before, but the pursuit of free food is a ... As promised last week, I'm presenting the winning entries of the CPW

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  wide assortment of classes that MIT offers over IAP, both for credit and ... IAP has been a time of very... well, different learning than I had during my first semester at MIT. The past two weeks have been surprisingly

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  of flavors, you get to customize it, and experimenting with new flavors ... da Vinci write, in golden font at the base of the painting, "Look at ... the meaning of courage"), and lame witty comments at all cost, although

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  tier-listing all the classes i’ve taken at mit and some other things

  

  of the classes I’ve taken at MIT, map them, etc. Shoutout to other ... taught by some of my favorite professors at MIT—all great lecturers, very ... new appreciation for the sheer complexity of modern computing, and 2

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act ... one I lived in then, and in a lot of ways, I have improved at life ... career. I’m really trying though, to at least let the rest of the world

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020