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• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  :00 am alarm seemed just way to early) I arrived in Seattle in time to go ... too. So now I find myself on an airplane in the early morning heading ... the next ten days I’ll be in Sacramento, San Francisco, Lafayette, and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  , and science textbooks they had. If they weren't so heavy, I would have ... we are going to be in Lusaka this weekend or Mwape, but I hope to have ... Yesterday was my team's first full day in Zambia, and what a day it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  I thought I would share: 1. At a networking event, always wear a ... program which teaches sophomores about leadership and work-place dynamics, I ... say "My name is Joe, and I have three dogs," while that line might be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  each of our dorms has its own traditions, in-jokes, and lifestyles. I ... prefrosh (sorry that this quiz is so late lol). I dormspammed the survey in ... responses started rolling in. (I think I got like 50 responses in 10 minutes

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  that, every lecture, our professor would bring in really amazing speakers ... , every lecture, a different student would present the week’s readings in a ... , a D&D group in Next House, and I wrote about Singing for Service

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and watched the colors in the sky changing.   soon after that i was in an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  , I drank the biggest cup of coffee I have ever seen in my life. I ... the best noodles I’ve ever had in my life. It was this little hole in ... This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  pset - I found myself lying in bed awake at 4 a.m. And then 5 a.m., 6, 7, until literally I had been lying awake in bed for 6 and a half hours ... if it was because I had coffee too late in the evening, or had slept in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  I'm the undergraduate assistant for a Freshman Learning Community ... ! The course has asynchronous materials in addition to the synchronous 1 ... of cook-alongs. One week, Dr. Dagmar Jaegar, a Lecturer in German

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  Under 35 for his pioneering research in comparative genomics. When I sat ... undergraduate, a graduate student, and a member of the faculty. I would also ... attention to their undergraduate students. While I have never encountered such

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one, which I haven't yet answered. It was: "It would be good if you could talk ... I've said in the past, the large majority of our applicants are highly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  were fixated on MIT, we did not question that we would major in a STEM ... A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a prospective 2023’s message expressing hesitation about choosing MIT. I think a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  You may have noticed that the application for the class entering in ... to wait until the very last minute. While I certainly won’t extol the ... adversely impact our review. I have highlighted a handful of my least

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  is redesigning admissions and SFS. Elizabeth and I were both on the ... its launch in 2009, it has maintained a straightforward and uncommon ... in brief, bold type that itself (through hyperlinks) serves as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  environmental work, I would take this callout more seriously. But he hasn't. Yes ... Summit. "I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other ... Being as musically obsessed as I am, it'd be impossible for me not to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... who has taught you in an academic class in high school (i.e. no middle ... process is the same in this case. I get many questions about what subject

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  would have likely sought anyway. I have always regarded Bexley as a ... ", which is consistent with what I would have guessed. ... cultures. You see, I have this theory that for MIT dorms, function follows

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  bombing and are both in serious condition, at http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of the tragedy that happened in Boston this Monday, knowing full well that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  sparked protests in several other Arab countries. Some of these events I ... There has been some discussion on CollegeConfidential and in the ... significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  use. I had never lived in a place with any kind of public transportation ... got to explore the city in a way I never had before and share the ... home. One way I got to do this was by hosting a student in my dorm

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025