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  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  to send in a Mid-Year Report. One of MIT's application brochures says I ... still send in supplementary materials and, if so, until what date can I do this?" Renuka wrote, "As a deferred student, I plan to send in some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don ... like Elvis, but.... Here I am with my very own personal Clay. Sort of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my ... , I started going to the barber in the basement of the MIT student

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  , albeit in the top 1000 most used words in the English language. I tried to ... the older bloglums give their updates that I decided to post too. In ... ride[/annotation] away.  It took me a while to feel like I lived in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  : 6 About: Hey guys! I’ve lived in exactly two places my ... and blogging about my projects. I never thought MIT would be the ... , but I like to consider myself a IllGeoTexMaryGeorgian (In order of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  … (in)tense. I haven’t experienced that much uncertainty in my life ... either at my school or the local library that I could get to on foot in 10 ... sessions and read the admissions blogs. In October, I gave up and had a month

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  question...though you kinda took your time but all in all I really appreciate ... question. I believe that some time I received in the mail a postcard asking about varsity athletics. I filled it out and mailed it in on the day of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  the summer, so that moving back to Next in the fall would be easy. I ... moment, though, I try to keep that analysis in the background and cherish ... the most efficient operations I have ever seen; you walk in, they look

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  Hey guys, happy 2011! It's been awhile. As I write this, I'm in San ... semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a ... yesterday when I was still sitting in 8.01, worrying about understanding how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  I did some ~leadership~ in high school, as I'm sure many of you did ... , tbh, since I followed a very typical path. In middle school and freshman ... about them and how they worked. Senior year, I was In Charge: the clubs

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  ? At least for me, I would be so excited that I could barely sleep the ... , my backpack would be loaded with paper and colored pencils, and I ... changed a bit, though not as much as you would think. In preparation for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... -centered design interview methodology, all in the span of the month. I shadowed a ... Bank, where I held a brain in my hands and then watched a cutting. It was

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  . Oblivious of what this would result in, I decided to work for the rest of the ... in first place are dashed as I find that it would take much more to ... sponsor me). I’d used the app in the past to learn Italian and to refresh my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  that I would have the opportunity to partake in research at MIT was ... getting settled in my host's dorm at New House 2, I was pumped and ready to ... time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  poses a professional threat. I’m privileged in that I never expected to ... planned, by June, I will hold bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and computer science from MIT. I’m uncertain how I would feel if this weren’t the case

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  is only a week ahead, so I thought I would share some of the things I ... of weeks ago I had to decide what I would do over the summer. On one side, I had the option to work at a startup in Cambridge called Geo

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  -ranked team put us in a better position for NCAA qualification. I think that ... basking in the sunlight and stuffing our faces with food and snacks. Elysa ... two years, which is doubly as nice for me because my family lives in

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

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  lab sections, I would think to myself that I am too tired to be out in ... activities. before sophomore fall, I chose classes I was interested in and I ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Party!

  

  I don't have much to say, I would just like to bring this to your ... 's me, in case you somehow didn't figure it out. I still have mud residue ... partying. It also has mudwrestling. In addition to my mudwrestling, I worked

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 8, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  -and-tank-top-wearing days to finally be upon us again, I have also been in an application ... shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in ... each, sending them out to whoever I believed would give me honest

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019