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• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  I'll get to it soon. ------------------------------------- M.D. wrote ... recommend getting materials to us by early February, and Midyear Grade Report ... intended to apply don't manage to get their SAT, TOEFL and school reports

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  parts to get assembled. On the day of our assembly, we slugged boxes of ... ="going to therapy"]soul searching.[/annotation] I ate toast with peanut butter ... , and nicked my nails trying to sand things. I'd like to believe that all

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  quite amusing. I will try to explain this without getting too ... clothing doesn't fit me anymore. To get this joke, you have to understand the ... . :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  Boston, anyway. What I'm getting at is that the trip down to Dim Sum was ... and Steer Clear Ruth ('07), Matt ('08), and I went down to Chinatown ... (supposedly) the world's third largest shark fin in its lobby. Thanks to Matt Mc

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  .[/annotation] In a space like a dormitory, wherein there’s some 6+ ways to get to my ... in. We start talking a bit more, getting to know each other: where we ... you can come and go. You can do anything and you don’t have to do

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  questions for me. Is it hard to study at MIT? How did you get into MIT? What ... pharmacy to get cough drops. In addition, a Kazakh teacher at Shoqan had ... can go to schools around the world during January and teach classes

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  are, what you want, and how you hope to get there. Now I realize the ... Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose ... the big dreams that brought you to campus in the first place. Leader

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  for me to get in. it's clean, nice, and has great communities, but i ... with my dorm being offline due to renovation: find another dorm on campus, or move off campus. moving off campus didn't appeal to me since i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  week, this is usually two hours or so, to make sure that I can get back ... from Kendall/MIT to Charles/MGH, is named as such because of this poem ... -internship was only 25 hours a week, I found myself with a bunch of extra time to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  welcomed people to the "new" MITAdmissions.org, the one you would have seen ... . It seems odd, reading that post, to do it again, and for much the same ... , and so we decided to share the same design agency (which ended up being

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  gets, I can always go home on breaks to an amazing meal cooked by my mom ... Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... this would be an especially good time to recognize my mom for her

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  what never was. How sad that I couldn’t get to know deeply all the cities ... on the street.  We meandered down Beacon Street and stopped to watch ... friend of a friend’s place, surrounded by students from BU. We set to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  know that if you get a skeleton to kill a creeper, it drops a music disc ... My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to ... since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that you have to stop and lose that heat and start all over. But then, when I set my alarm for seven am yesterday and stumbled up to snooze it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  teachers sufficient time to write on your behalf, they will get your letter ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... some face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  student gets to know Pappalardo very well over the years- they typically ... In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  .2060 is that we get to build the circuits and code that power these ... getting the timing just right. I had to calibrate a few songs manually for ... cool I guess.” Well, Joe, I’m pleased to announce that for my 6

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  ) open comments was a kind of godsend for those who might want to get a ... redesigning the homepage so that, in addition to the blogs, you also get a ... asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  when they get scared and confused to help calm and sooth them.” This ... though he’s about to sleep, when his batteries get low. To design Ollie ... motor drivers and touch sensors. External stimuli gets translated to Ollie

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  because I couldn’t get myself to knock out, which apparently spooked one of ... to rent river shoes and water sticks to get ourselves through ... The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023