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• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  they met with her. They weren't offering money to get in; they and their ... difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even ... -arts college in New England, where admissions officials had promised to assign

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  island to get their opinions on what it means to them to buy locally. As ... lots of burgers around). I haven’t tried any yet but I’ll be sure to get ... I discovered it was rather impossible to make any logical connection

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas ... . Four years ago when I was a senior in high school I tried to learn how to ... in a non-dining dorm or you’re not on a meal plan and you want to learn

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  since 2019 due to the pandemic. DTYD is traditionally held in Burton ... ) wanted to celebrate their 21st birthdays and decided to indulge in a party ... place in Hamilton House, the place where the Bombers were exiled to when

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  the best: (1) Examkrackers - I didn't get to use their "1001 Questions ... -med-ers and MCAT-ers. I wish you all the luck in the world :) P.S. Good luck to ... straightforward and similar to practice tests I'd taken. The bio section, however

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  really serious – People take the TOEIC to get jobs, seek promotions, make ... in a Sketchbook, it's gonna take a certain dose of courage to start ... My rest & relaxation days ended in the beginning of July. After

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  something to that effect. Some students in the lab have fallen asleep at ... otherwise have just run off, but to be able to defend yourself in a situation ... have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  to be willing to participate; if you engage yourself in the vibrant ... I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office ... consider applying to or attending the Institute. Since this is my initial

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the ... in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science ... you are! ;) But I think it's just the coolest thing 😍 I get to write

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  least six blog entries in the past month or so, I haven't had a chance to ... professor encouraged us all to stay in the class: a 46 on the exam ... felt like this was enough of an issue that I wanted to get my thoughts

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  'll get to see Melis dance! I should probably blog this.* Me: "Absolutely I ... Sorry for not having posted recently. It's gotten to the point where ... time that feels like it's being wasted. As such, I decided to take most

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  before midnight with one of my friends encouraging me to get pumped about ... birthday wishes in class. One of my neighbors, F. ‘17, resolved to ... Knife’s beats seeped through. In a final attempt to capitalize on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Today I wanted to thank a very special person in my life, someone who ... helping out with a cultural show and tell in preschool. That's a smol me to ... taking it in high school, and always supported me in my endeavors to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  are good for you). Also, before I get to the list, a disclaimer: R ... . Anyway, Robyn (yes, the one that sang this song in the 90's) was going to ... . In fact, I spent a good 20 minutes listening to some super

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I ... made oats in the same pan, and was about to do the chicken, too, when I decided that I wanted to get on the road. I’d forgotten the joy of pan

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  interminable, since in order to successfully win a game you have to get through ... , and I’ll probably try to continue playing chess once in a while, too ... temporary. I’m almost certainly not going to put in the hours required to be

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  else who had gotten into MIT and struggled to meet other kids. In ... . I wanted to impress people around me and I wanted to get a job? And even now ... wouldn't carry out the rest of my career in the same manner. I want to work

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  or to find myself shivering in a heated room; I often go to sleep with ... -athlete. The job has been trying in the cases when I've had to edit work that is ... 're recruiting, so if you're going to be at MIT in the fall and are interested in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... agree to get married or break up. We have started this conversation many ... 2021 is two-thirds over. To celebrate the newly abandoned month, I play

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  I have ever seen in my life. I was determined to get to MIT Media Lab ... undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions ... accepted to MIT Media Lab, the place that I was dreaming of in high school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020