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• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  on my application, do you think that's enough? Do you think I'll get in because I expressed my number in scientific notation? Do I need more Sig ... hours tooling for a C on a test, and you should take pride in your

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges to build my list in August of my senior year. We had done the campus ... weird. I liked it a lot because it stood out in its rejection of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  bashed in by the Big Rock Tribe." Thus begins a wonderful book by Dave ... occasionally want to get out and see the world. In the last year and a half, MIT ... I was in China. Look, here's proof! : Just Wednesday night, I was

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  're reading it correctly, A through S. 19 parts! In addition to the other parts ... beginning this monster, I've decided to share happiness with the world, in the ... . They've also been installing new Ethernet jacks in all of the rooms -- at

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  They say that today's graduation theme was "MIT students in service ... to cancel or postpone the elaborate shindig in Killian Court (check out ... squishing around in. I think that's the worst of it. The first thing I did

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  Pardon me for the grammatically incorrect tonight title (in the ... all the (hopefully) awesome entries I'll be putting up in the next few ... decided to go to MIT. In some ways, I am still surprised I got in to MIT

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  easier. I figured MIT was a once in a lifetime opportunity that I should ... torn up, I happily made my way to Boston in the fall of 2005. However ... bad start - I participated in the Freshman Arts Preorientation (FAP

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  reconsider all of the waitlisted students again in May, when we know how many ... waitlist until after the reply date of May 1. I wouldn't be surprised in this ... great choice to fall in love with, so that no matter what happens with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  encyclopedic source of knowledge about the trials of Ancient Rome covered in ... new poem and write a short essay response, which we read aloud in a ... , and between 45 min and an hour to write the response, usually, in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and ... a writer fit in at MIT? After arriving at MIT, I quickly learned that ... interested enough in literature that they meet in their free time to discuss it

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder "What could possible be in that room?!" Some are pretty easy to figure ... probably means you shouldn't open those doors. But, in case you're a little

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  innovative art making communities in the country. There are over 60 student art ... that the arts take in 2008. The arts at MIT are everywhere and include ... for Visual Arts, artists-in-residence, the Center for Advanced Visual

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  MIT's main lecture hall is in building ten. It's also room 250 ... article came out in The Tech (MIT's newspaper) with the earth ... exciting and unexpected. Sitting in a row were five different types of chairs

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just ... concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No ... back in Boston. Too bad - it turns out that Florida is a pretty cool

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... his work in microfinance: Basically, banks give small loans to poor ... opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs ... community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  buffalo. There are no buffalo in california as I write this entry though I ... asbestos and lead paint and people aren't allowed in it. The pedestrian in this picture is me. Sad little me, always walking everywhere

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  I really should be napping or something right now, since in the last ... , sang for two and a half hours in concert choir, freaked out over The ... they finally found out I've slept with a stuffed animal since I was in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  thought hey, if I can get lost in the middle of campus after 3 years of ... navigate the 77 Mass Ave construction in their cars? So, first of all, every ... just numbers. If there's a letter in front of your building number, that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  for rising juniors interested in helping people. In this entry, I will ... participated in it last summer. If I have forgotten any, please let me know ... Fellowships have a competitive advantage in the selection process sample issues

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006