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• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  the highly specific title in this post's tagline, they can be applied to ... in your life when something happened but you can’t quite recall all of ... prompt, I will say that it is naïve to think that you can get away with not

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  before. In roughly 5 degrees weather, I headed to 1st Avenue, actually a ... had made in my life thus far. Once there, I pulled out my little 360 VR ... . I forgot to think of whether this felt “aesthetic” to me and vibed in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  parents love getting to visit me in Boston. The Parent Lounge: I hope you ... can answer many questions. For those driving to campus: I've been living in Boston for 12 years now, and I don't own a car, and for good reason

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  around campus, dressed up in our Air Battle Uniforms (you know, the green ones) or in our blues (they’re quite spiffy, I know). You probably didn ... on our plates as well - training to become officers in the United

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join the Design/Build/Fly Team?

  The MIT Design/Build/Fly team is composed mostly of undergraduate students, but is also open to graduate students, who compete in the annual ... specifications as specified in the competition rules. Students on the MIT DBF team
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  best universities in my country. However, I want to study aerospace ... I will have many things to think about in college to keep me focused in going on and to avoid being homesick. I think I will cook my own

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  -2013 Admissions Interns What role they play in the office Why they are interested in working at the Admissions Office Randomness Seriously, though, check out the page. They work on a lot of great projects in the office

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  probably the longest hug in my life thinking that if i buy another thing ... before we graduated. i haven't talked to any of them in forever and i ... memories of high school one night i had a breakdown at 2 in the morning in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  , but I do get claustrophobic in an I'm-hot-asf-and-need-you-to-shut-up-so-we-can ... eat at the (in)famous dining halls. I find it fairly obvious which ... nice? Do they look miserable? Vibes/ambiance - Can I eat here without

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  can press hope to get to university in U.S.The list you have supplied ... 'm looking forward to hear from you." I've covered some of the question in my ... ) ------------------------------------- Samira wrote, "I got gold medal in International Astronomy olympiad

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the ... , I know how frustrating that can be. (Funny story- NJ has about 5 or 6 ... , because how the hell should I know? I got in to my first choice school, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  chord in my memory. jeff and i met four years ago in the summer after ... branded it as bubble tea. i loved that place in high school, but compared to ... print version and i managed the website. it's a short story that i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Herbert and I camping in the desert, and it was absolutely beautiful there ... threw three in a row and popped all three!  I told him to try, and he ... little tacos and I hope that I can go back there one day soon! Speaking of

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

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  blog. But there's one in particular I've kept turning over in my ... designed the new SoS website and forthcoming new mit.edu. I like working with Upstatement, and I think their new website for us will be very good. Indeed, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... though I had prowled the East Campus website extensively and seen pictures ... college dorms didn’t fully hit me until I walked in for the first time. For

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  In 4 weeks, you will leave home for an academic journey of 4 years ... things I’ve found helpful. Pack: -- a memento for your shelf or wall ... sockets appear in the oddest places. -- a Twin XL sheet set, a towel, and a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  I can’t even sleep through the night? That night, I lay in bed ... to go home, but you can’t stay here. In truth, I’m one of the lucky ... in when there’s breaking news every few hours), but I went on anyway

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  nature, you can be in practically any science/engineering major and get ... powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in ... nanotechnology, it’s quite understandable that many students are interested in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my ... would be cool. In that case, I guess the liquid metal part of his system ... According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact ... applications in earnest. Here are some updates from the Admissions Office ... currently processing more than 10,000 documents which have all arrived in just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011