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• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  officers, our primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the ... As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... to get to know different aspects of each individual. Here are this year

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  ’d like to look in particular at the cultural role of passenger trains in ... train, used to and, to some extent, continues to play an important role in ... used to be all the rage in country music. Purported to be on the first

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  to get into the Museum Of Science for free. A few weeks back, Diana ... is huge, and it's pretty much impossible to do everything in one day ... getting four half-gallon tubs of ice cream and happening to come across a

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  explored your options in person, first? This is when you really get to learn ... Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of ... have guests, not to exceed three nights in any given week. Overnight

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  sometime tomorrow (check Matt's post for the details) to get your essays in ... might also know, as I gave away some spoilers. Brought to you just in ... behind that is fairly simple. You get to write about yourself! You're not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to ... for twelve weeks and I didn't get to touch a kitchen this summer, I ran ... top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  for a different reason, whether it was to get somewhere or just to ... parkway in boston, so that i could actually climb the stairs to the bridge ... close to the water and peer in. But, I found that most of the grass was

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to ... wanted to get involved with research and being a teaching assistant early. I can defiently call this first year at MIT a success. In regards to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  Museum of Fine Arts (MIT students get in free! Can't beat culture for free ... cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember ... experiment in lab, I chose the experiment every time. I didn't go to night

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  (crossing our fingers we get in somewhere) New York! We went to New York to ... in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which ... /Exhausting Interviews We both managed to get to the final stage of the interview process

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Dirty Little Secret? Free concerts rock my socks.

  

  So I began this entry on Sunday night, but am just getting around to finishing it now. I'll share why. So at home, we had a little pipe burst in ... really start learning when you get to MIT. I have a few friends who row

  • by Bryan
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  ’ve spent the past fourteen days traveling back in time to the blissful years ... subconsciously continued to have this faith in my wellbeing. Of course all of that ... incredibly lucky to have my aunt with me at the time. Her instincts kicked in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  /driving/walking/doing dishes in silence"]I don't really listen to music.[/annotation] So I asked ... button.[/annotation] In order to help logistically prepare yourself, I ...  apply.mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, then click “Forgot Your Password?” and follow

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  'll try to get funding, but bring some money along in case I can't. It ... in 1.5 hours gets their picture on the wall, a t-shirt, free hot dogs ... . Anybody interested, let's meet in the 23 at 3ish. You're welcome to try to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  's where they get you. (Tricked me again, life!) According to my mom, you ... in all your pictures, and to know what a Roth IRA is and how to ... There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  in the space, how to get access, and notes about the space’s culture ... makerspaces on and around campus. In addition, they’re able to add descriptions ... to see this map show up in [annotation note = "ie, emailed out to all

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  basic things you need to know about me and this blog you can read about in ... there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when I was 8, and then to several other places before settling down in New

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My ... I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a double minor in Biomedical Engineering and Economics. Who does that

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I ... are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch ... Condry, an MIT Professor in Japanese Cultural Studies, is giving a talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  . this applies in sitautions like, not knowing the password to something ... get on a call with us, so we did. we talked about how no one's going to ... . i wanted to say that one year isn't that long in the span of things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022