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• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  , but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And ... just being myself in my life, right where I am, is like, enough." So go ... view an online version. I sent my printed-out-PDF application via snail

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  trying to be positive. Still, I don’t believe in blanket statements. I like ... Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to ... on the internet, I was surprised in the last couple years to find an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  that you may find useful. At least in the beginning, I'll focus on ... always have a really cool card in the hole. I.e., a theoretical ... technique in Venice, Italy after I graduated and then entered a business plan

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  to code in this class, so I would definitely come in with some type of ... ! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That ... love languages, and I tested into Spanish 4 because of my AP scores in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  Environment offices, when I was accosted by a man in a bicycle taxi. MAN: "Hey ... with strangers. But as the man sped off in search of another victim, I ... minutes! I could write a whole blog entry in those 15 minutes! But then I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to ... that "you better be in the band, dear", and I found that I really don ... I troop downstairs once a day to practice, trumpet in one hand and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  in this together" feel - this is one of the least cutthroat places I've ever seen in that regard. Brianna also had a comment on that entry: "i ... what was covered in class and eventually i get it and i figure out how to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

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

  

  been in. (Coming in second would be the one between 8th and 9th grade ... industry CS internship. Traditional, it is not. I'm tuning in remotely from ... to meetings Oh, god. So many damn meetings. I'm in an MIT committee

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  MIT experience in a new framework. I appreciate that. I'll never take ... just finish the work in time to submit things. Additionally, I'm taking a ... say anyways.  When I applied to the Cambridge- MIT Exchange (CME

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  out after our clinic in rural Nicaragua. Since I don't want to ... deeper level of my UROP that I was working on during the school year in ... Since I discovered that under my new schedule, I practically have NO

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  in designing the class ring (and plan Ring Delivery, but first things first). There's an extensive entry on Wikipedia; I would link to all the ... semester. It's one of the most recognizable rings in the world, based on

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  ? i like both, but usually coffee In the last month have you... 031 ... country would you most like to visit? i've always wanted to check out india ... 013. Do you get along with your parents? yes 014. Your heritage? i am a

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  's protests in Copley Square. I took all the photos above, and the following ... there: This was the first time I really actively participated in a ... could not be more proud, and I am certain that you join me in thanking

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  . Doable in a week, even. Little did I know that it would take over a month ... community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  in life. The “things” I think about are vague and amorphous, but all ... encourage you to do so is to help put you in the same mindset that i am ... things in life. i will not be as strong as mike posner in telling you these

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  year, but didn't get in - which makes this doubly sweet. I'll be there ... this sounds, the reason I haven't posted in forever is because I have TOO ... I spent four days in pure agony before seeing a dentist and finding

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  's lab that she would in fact be leaving MIT to move to New York with her ... I ever saw in my life. You guys are the best students ever, and I will ... course, if I were to become a professor (not going to happen), I would just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  (in my case, neuroscience). I clearly remember [annotation note ... . I somehow found myself somehow talking to her in Lobby 7 for nearly an ... -door neighbors for the summer. I would be living at tEp and Denisse would be

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  quickly tested. It started about 1am that night.  I had been getting in and ... , there was a knock at my door.  I am a Medlink in East Campus, and I ... the door and let her in.  She sat on my floor, and I sat with her.  She

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  anything like that classroom in the movie." I actually thought the movie 4-145 was closer to the real thing than most of the rooms in the movie (I ... . The closest in number would probably be the awesome course 2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008