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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  there so that the freshman can get the best idea of where they want to ... you can re-rank the dorms you'd like to live in. Maybe REX changed your ... voodoo. I seem to remember that most people get their first or second

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  . When I came by to pick up the key the person in charge was flustered and ... week but that I and my students were not to eat anything while in the ... me meant, ultimately, getting into MIT, leading to some unknown secure

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the ... minutes total, no matter where I’m going: I get to leave later and not be ... is great for now but once it gets unbearable (in the real winter) I

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  if I’ve ever been the first person to do <obscure thing> in < ... Christian Science, which happens to be of the most beautiful buildings in ... playground to squeeze in concentrated spurts of productivity between casual

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  inspired me to then start sorority rush in the fall of freshman year. Convince the adMITs to come to CPW. Getting them to come to campus is the best way to help them find their place at MIT. Get advice from alumni

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  as I stare at my completed 7.014 exam. I get up to hand the thick packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  doesn't seem that far away from yesterday. Now, I just want to fill in ... -raiser for a mission/community service trip to the Philippines in April of my ... teaching SAT (probably it was an opportunity to finally "get back" at ETS for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  to get involved in student government, because the only student ... force behind it, that I meant to come out in Tuesday's edition. It's about ... . Unfortunately, I didn't get my column in on time, and the next issue of the Tech

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  dumb"]enroll[/annotation]in[annotation note="Intro to Computational ... . Do I really want to major in 6-9 or 11-6, or am I actually just interested in 9 or 11? Do I feel called to Course 6, or do I feel required to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  turns entertaining my little brother, and somehow, I managed to get him to ... , and got picked up by an auntie to go to my grandparents’ house in Fuxin ... aunties that lived in the area tried to take us clothes shopping, and with

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  joys of running bridge loops in Boston. Afterwards, I decided to take a ... drained. I needed to re-discover why I needed to be at MIT in the first ... do whatever I set my mind to?" It's often easy to forget in the midst

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... Gillespie applied to MIT from a relatively small public school in Georgia. He was the first applicant from his school to MIT in a long time, perhaps

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  mean is, if I weigh compensation as a heavy factor in choosing what to do ... 've been more meaningful in perhaps intangible ways. I've been applying to ... , I don't want people to lose their jobs in a society that requires

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  trying to get through it. But now that you're going to college you're going ... not be the most effective allies. It can be tough to feel comfortable in ... different it is being with people who 'get' you... It gives me time to focus

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  code, hours of pulling my hair out at office hours, just trying to get ... is: Basically, you get a crash course in robotics and controls, and ... because when I devote time to one thing, it seems like I’m losing ground in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything what i did this IAP!

  

  . To get interesting things done, and go interesting places, solely ... , anything every day (I am 42 days in! More to come on this if I can keep it up ... other recent life experiences, that to be alive, and energized, and to get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  don't particularly want to walk all the way over to campus in order to ... as long as the telethon lasts, to answer questions in the comments, and ... calling new students and chatting with them about MIT. I've participated in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  sadness - because we were not able to offer a spot to SO MANY wonderful people. This seems to be the case every year. You'd think I'd get used to ... mailing I want to be 100% certain before I say "in the mail!"). I promise to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023) 3/14/23 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  . We recommend you check now to make sure you can log in smoothly! If ... .mitadmissions.org/apply, click the link to Log In, then click “Forgot Your Password?” and follow ... [email protected] and someone from the MIT Admissions team will get back to

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  us more than half an hour to get to Porter Square!!!) to Franconia ... It's pretty common at MIT for living groups to take advantage of the ... luxury!!) to go on fun trips and retreats. On Friday, my floor, Putz

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019