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  On Greatness

  

  remarkable don't do it for any reason beyond that it's what they love to do, a ... . So for those of you in high school, wide-eyed and unsure of how to get ... I get a ton* of emails from both applicants, newly accepted frosh

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  that are educationally sound for them to best prepare them to succeed in ... offerings to feel like they are not going to be strongly considered for ... for MIT. In recent years MIT has strived to emphasize many of the ideas

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  process, picking and choosing which colleges they want to apply to. For ... admission offers to. (If you think waiting for a handful of college decisions ... 't responded to yet, do that too! P.P.S. For those on the waitlist, we haven

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  to think that I'd never get home in time for Christmas (this happened ... Montreal, we got through cutsoms and had to wait for maybe four hours at the airport before our next flight. Joe and I stepped outside for a bit, just to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  to get out in the near future, but for now, i want to share what I ... "]laundry[/annotation] in Simmons, and was waiting in a lounge for it to finish. Behind the tv ... actually going to take it for good. I am merely borrowing it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban ... various community service events, while also allowing us to do all these awesome activities like go to a Red Sox game and explore Boston and eat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  pieces of paper for no reason.] There also has to be potential for this to ... acquire all of these cards? For each students to have a twelve-card pack, plus extras for OLs and staff, we'd need 16,200 cut cards. I wanted to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  up for a ton of clubs. If my brain didn't want to meet people, I ... waiting for class to begin. The magic of making friends, of course, is that ... stress for what now seemed to be an endless four-year marathon to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  fairs, even if you aren't looking for a job yet. They may not have a ton ... from a direct application to an employer. Everything elsethat they ... networking is to talk to people. Well actually, there's a little more to it

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

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  . I've made it a point to never buy a sticker for my bottles. I just use ... 'm willing to cover up for the sake of the newer ones. I got a [annotation ... discount was a ton of AirTags lol']AirTag instead,[/annotation] for more

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  on forever). I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the ... ;s also a host for many talks related to photography. Since MIT is an ... "Doc" Edgerton invented high-speed stroboscopic photography, and to this

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  well. They can range from $10 or $13 for a half hour session to $100 for ... pro-MIT propaganda. Fortunately, nobody seemed to mind a whole ton (and ... . I worked through the summer, kept my job for weekends during the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  and artists and tons of little shops.  However, once we got to Santa ... country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island, I didn't have much (any) exposure to the West Coast, and it was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber ... checklist for the ages. 52 THINGS NOT TO DO IF YOU WANT TO BE ADMITTED TO MIT ... MIT. Instead tell us what you want to do at MIT. Do not let the costs

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  to the student center for breakfast. Surprisingly, my only gaffe of the ... , we waited for another twenty minutes or so before being summoned to the ... get to comment on the subject at hand, EXCEPT for the Dalai Lama. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  . But that's another story for another blog entry. What am I going to ... ,000 lbs of Lucretex for the cheapest price. CalTech could do it for $9/lb. For the project to be successful, we had to beat them. ICE is fairly

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to blogs that aren't MIT Admissions blogs, I'll sum it up for you: The US

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  got to work right away planning and organizing orientation events for ... know freshmen. For my part, my first task of orientation was to build an ... O.M.G. It's over, finally. For the last two weeks all of the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  showcase some MIT-related products that are for sale. All of these are real ... ." So when she was asked to create a useful product for an industrial ... subject to unpredictable traffic. Commercial airlines are effective for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  computers for a while (and listening to Blast! at a volume that probably have ... about barbecue." "Hm." So, in order to make up for my lack of cordiality ... Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008