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• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  of waiting and not knowing, and want to get back to you as quickly as ... The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a ... courts the first, and so on. We spend time and money trying to identify

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  . You’ll work hard, really hard, but you can get used to it; you’ll strike ... . I was reluctant to get up from bed—I always am, really—but I managed ... otherwise might have. In contrast, I had been able to get my physics p

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a ... calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles ... the first person in their families to go to college, their university

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  staying to get some home-cooked food from my mom during travels). There were ... college admissions, I often get asked about how hard it is for me to read ... hardships to get into MIT (or that hardships are the only way to get in

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  Orange County so I get to spend some time with them (and also pet my cats ... for having the chance to get to know all these weird (in the best ... For spring break, the women's tennis team travelled to Southern

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  circus comes to town, and the only way to get the elephants from the train ... (Answers to your questions are coming next entry; keep on sending ... else I know just emailed me to tell me that. EVERYONE I KNOW: That's not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am dumb

  

  Well, it's pouring rain outside, and I managed to get myself up at 8 ... magazines to look at the pictures... 3. Don't get scurvy! It's not a good idea ... running horribly late because I decided it was too windy to ride my bike

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  't dwelling on the derivation of equations but rather getting to the guts of the ... , and I want one of you -- yes, freshmen -- to come work in my lab and get ... to go to 3.091 (Intro Chemistry, solid state version) today, to see for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  AM so we could get to the parking lot by 6:45 to ensure a spot because ... face. It looked very steep. I started to get apprehensive. When we ... I was so adamant on doing. But at least I get to say that I completed

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  to get into MIT”; I could tell you the things that I did in high school ... This year, I’m volunteering with the MIT Educational Council to interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble ... 're adults now and that means you get to make choices. Of course that also ... kitchen that you can use to cook food in, and if you get a few friends

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  time we also just go get food together or go to the movies, but all in ... . However, on Saturday I felt that I had enough time to both get some psets ... exam I would have to hop on getting the psets that I had fallen behind on

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  looks for ways to get back on the horse. She tends to learn as much from ... which the hero goes it alone to kill the bad guys, and avenge those who ... surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  don't do that. But it still gets to you after a while. Sometimes it ... and one letter that has to be included. It gets more fun the more you play, because you get to know the quirks and idiosyncrasies of the person

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• 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 ... I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... something like trying to get up cold vertical stuff using axes and crampons ... hands and feet to get up not-that-cold vertical stuff. The gist of it is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  'm probably going to hurt myself if I continue getting carried away with these ... the last to get up. After I get up I go to my job in Building 46, where ... 're full. (If you came here for tips on how to get into college, I'm sorry to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  total n00b when you get to MIT. I'll help you out. First, pronouncing ... schedule. I'm up at 4:45 AM each morning and get back to my room at 7 PM ... be the "Write about anything you didn't get a chance to express

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Interview Deadline Approaching! It's time for applicants to contact their local MIT representative.

  

  to ask. Remember that the interview is not only a way for us to get to know you better, but also a way for you to get to know us better. Show up ... might add: please allow your interviewer some time to get back to you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  lot of the experiments I do involve getting cells to take up foreign DNA ... hand? when do you get to learn how to do all this anyways? Yes, you can ... 's happiness, but they're just trying to get everybody into a HASS-D/seminar. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006