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  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in ... application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  the passage" and "got so hooked on a feeling, i started dealing / in a ... bad hand". the chorus has been stuck in my head for the last few days, because it's been such a mood. every morning, i wake up, and i have this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I'll finish up this entry when I'm safely and comfortably back in room 224C ... favorite character in the novel. Still, I don't get what's up with all these

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  build community, to have fun, to stay in shape. I could not imagine MIT ... : Matt MacLeod   I came out of last night's IM hockey game just ... hockey team were great fun, and every time I look at my Baker House ice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot ... . part of this was because i was not walking in the best way, for several ... i have lived longer, so i know more about the best way to walk, and i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  ?Smelling like a bonfire, lost in a haze?If you're drunk on life, babe, I think it's greatBut while in this world I think I'll take my whiskey neatMy coffee ... grapeIf you can sit in a barrel, maybe I'll waitUntil that day I'd rather

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... because I like riding in cars. Sophomore year I got a Zipcar membership ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and ... Cormick, the dorm I live in. There, Anuhya '14 used her mad design skills to ... hours :) I thought I'd share the fun times I had this past Friday night

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  Just two and a half weeks and freshman year is over. I'll spare you the "Oh the memories, it went by so fast, if only I had more time" crap ... like: STRESSFUL! Just like in high school, a favorite strategy of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  sometimes this semester I wanted to throw my hands up and give up, but in my ... 'll be nice to return to flip flops and a tshirt as I bask in the warm ... ...the number of semesters completed at MIT. So today, I waved

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires ... you live in a more suburban or rural area and local bus routes don't pass by your house. However, if you live in a big city or within walking

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  getting more and more tired and a fear of slipping creeps in on me. I squirm ... follow the other path I was considering where I'd stay in Paris.MIT gave me ... . [annotation note="In the end I'm confident this was the right choice for me, but

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  whether I want to continue in school and get an advanced degree after my ... questions about what the company is looking for in its candidates. Before I ... attributes I’m learning in the GEL program! Small company: Be ready to work

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I ... , I'm still quite familiar with several concepts in phonology and ... , I have an edge in this class that I wouldn't otherwise enjoy. Even so

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  'll all come together in the end. I promise. I have a gift for this kind of ... remembered something that happened like, almost 2 years ago. I was in Ben ... . I'm not even kidding. See, back in the day, the admissions blogs were

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  means in english." i closed my eyes, unable to continue. ... I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for all the lost sleep in the last 3 months. After obsessively refreshing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  One seemingly minor, yet important, change I've noticed between ... parents, birthday wishes from my sisters and grandmother, or even things I ordered for myself online, I really do love getting mail. At this point

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions Beginning To Arrive How are you guys doing?

  

  Hi everyone, It's been one of those weeks here in the office - I can't seem to get anything done. I'm working on the big Q&A thread that I've been promising you for weeks. I also owe you my post-EA thoughts. Both

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... world Where in the world is all the time? So many things I still don ... course i technically can, but... what??? summer flew by']I can't believe it

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to be in New York with high school friends for the weekend; more on this later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007