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• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  -curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a ... schools admit you, you'll go on to achieve great things in life. This is ... In my previous entry, Joan Tran from Louisiana asked for some general

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  more motivated when it comes to school. 97. I love getting stuff in the ... person. 21. My first kiss was in middle school. 22. I want to go to art ... hate cleaning my room. 62. I tend to get jealous very easily. 63. I love

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  is fine, but in the last few months, I've been trying to step away from ... showcases, meme tags. In the past eight months, I've learned how to manage my ... I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It's incredibly

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  horizon for who can say how long, moving away the closer you get to it. In ... , but we’ll get the closest approximation that we can in these times. I ... around other people and ignoring them.  In high school we’d go to college

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  social innovation. We have to innovate, engineering the ways in which we ... involved. In the great tradition of MIT, our undergraduates want to pioneer ... prepared down to the wire. 20 minutes before the meeting, we sat in Next

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  their laptops on a couch after a hackathon. Again, we don't get paid to ... Okay, hold up. I have a really good excuse for not blogging in ages ... those people who does course 6 in no order whatsoever. Taking course 6 in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  Wartman to learn the ins and outs of dining etiquette and table conversation ... Innovation Economy crowd in Boston: that of iRobot CEO Colin Angle to Erika ... Massachusetts (the first MIT grad to win that crown), and later competed in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  to MIT I spent working full time and trying to get ready for life on ... live in Boston you need to listen to Tessie and I'm Shipping Up to Boston ... 'm Shipping up to Boston." A lot. I've included some YouTube videos in case you

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  "I like to build things. What can I do to show my stuff?" I get this ... little-known fact that we in admissions get as excited about cool projects ... -scratch inventions and creations get our attention in the same way that many of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  “It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II this term? Just a thought before I get some sleep: I made ... at Star Market. They cost $2.99 plus tax. Upon starting to address them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  , you literally won't be able to play. In that way, the frequent practice ... to skate. Another tour guide?! On our way to the next stop in our ... our tour! We didn't get to see everything, like the sailing pavilion

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  a blogger: “There’s the feeling of lying in bed and not wanting to get ... distended to suddenly hollowed out.  Eventually, my parents tucked me back in ... remember most is thinking about how in two years I would be going to college

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  's a wimp. When situations get rough, she jumps on her bed to get as far ... audience as possible. Don't get me wrong: I love to sing. I'm no good at it, though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  able to transfer my experience judging people in admissions to judging ... relationships among women in aerospace engineering and to build outreach ... throwing. Each participant has a time slot of 1 minute to perform in front

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  walked in to danger!awesome, here are the other people who were there ... went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting workshop in Central Square. It was founded by Ali Mohammed, PhD '08, an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across ... . WHY DID I COME TO THIS SCHOOL.”), and with classes wrapping up today, a ... . I haven’t slept in 2 days. So last night, I had 3 Monsters, and I just

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... me happy. :) So what am I taking? (Man, do I know how to get off track ... 't want to take just another language class because it gets kind of old

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  hear the challenges and get to building. Would we have the chops to make something that worked in 36 hours? Were we expected to sleep during those 36 ... was to craft an advertising schema for a company which was in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  icy winds across the bridge can grab free tickets to select concerts. In ... send to him. Luckily, JF agreed with me in my assessment that "this ... include in my presentation. My strategy for my oral was to use humor to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005