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• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  , we can afford to take some time off. As for me, I'll be spending about ... I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer ... ? Preparing for the influx of summer visitors. Beginning in a few weeks, crowds

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MITblogs: The Next Generation Look ma, a hack!

  

  Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to present eight applicants' humble homage to the MIT admissions website ... our friend Randall Munroe. I like the last panel, personally.

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  an MIT professor and an expert in both linguistics and politics. I ... good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... , I attended an event called: “A Conversation with Noam Chomsky- No More

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  haven't heard back; I can only assume that Facebook Share is deprecated ... my druthers I would just use the Share button. But we seem to be in a ... Facebook presence, or is it A-OK? In any case, I would recommend that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  less. It's still here, in little bits and pieces: when I realize that the ... others' mouths, the last time I was in this classroom it was for a class I ... imagined. One big part of that rightness is all the ways that I can see the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn ... again: (I could've sworn there were more parts in the front fork ... time digging around a *bike graveyard* and in the bike store, and I had

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... out (if they haven't already), I implore you to read them. Take them in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  particular reason. In case you can't tell, I'm geeking out here, and loving ... a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads ... College. They're all rising seniors in physics or astronomy; I'm the baby

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  for you (in fact, I think 50% or more sorority women didn't see ... are nothing like what the media portrays. I'll try to dispel some popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  carts available that students can use to wheel their luggage in. I was ... Today was moving-in day, where I moved all of my stuff out of storage ... back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  Applicants plus at least 30 more from hopefuls in grades 8-11, and I don't ... that I can give you to answer all your questions: visit the MIT ... . The website tells you what MIT is looking for and how to get here, in as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  there, but I can post some stereotypically MIT photos: In order for me ... would win in a fight: James Bond or Wolverine? "I'm sitting in lab right ... . This is the best recipe for soup I have ever tasted in my short life

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  It's no secret that I am a) living in New Vassar and b) despise it. I ... bread or matcha cookies. I miss sitting in lounge and napping while ... on the other side. I sit in the cold, unfeeling halls of New Vassar

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  Saturday, when I was leaving on the T at 5:30 AM, I made sure to buy two $1 ... , where it sat in solitude for three weeks. I then, right before departing ... wanting to face the usual crowd coming off the train in South Station, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  ) major. I have recently completed my HASS Concentration in Course 11 (Urban ... MIT, fabricated a house featured in a MoMA exhibit last summer (there I ... yes, you CAN major in art at MIT. Here it has more of a studio art

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  really, really like postcards, and so I buy a lot of them, and sometimes a ... 's appointment, right before I went to Best Buy to pick up a [annotation note ... girl in [annotation note="sadly I do not know which region of Russia this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  - thanks! Now I can link my parents here so they can stop asking me how the ... June) based on i3 videos/dorm websites and/or previous visits alone ... , you'll get the i3 stuff in the mail. If you never had a chance to visit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  easy combination to come by). In case you can't tell, I procrastinated ... 2014 sweatpants draped over it. They're COVERED in dirt. Last night, I ... ballgown is dangling from a ceiling pipe. It doesn't fit in my wardrobe; if I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  the UROP website. 4. "I'm not sure what I want to major in.  Is that ... Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you ... do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  to sleep and wake up in a year. I can’t deal with all this. I am ... (although in my hometown bedroom community of NYC, people were buying pallets ... house to buy in my new town, go on a big adventurous trip to Asia, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020