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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  university to attend. If this is you, I hope these words help decide. A couple ... side, I had the option to work at a startup in Cambridge called GeoOrbital, and on the other side, I had the option to join a team of students from

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

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  school summers, I strongly recommend you to make this summer a meaningful ... 't flood you with pictures from Mathcamp. Suffice it to say that it was a ... flattering (as a matter of fact, you HAD TO wear speedos. I got a huge scolding

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / CPW

  CPW will not be perfect and it doesn’t have to be

  

  undergrad experiences. It’s a weekend that’s supposed to help you choose ... to MIT for years. If I had known a few things before going into CPW ... FOR CHAOS In the week before CPW, I made a list of interesting events to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can't wait to ... , and it is. As a matter of philosophy, we have typically preferred to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place ... typically preferred to defer, rather than deny, a majority of our early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  paper to trifold boards. What started off as a mandatory elementary school ... . My very first science experiment was a naive effort to demonstrate the ... filled balloons with confetti to represent a nose filled with snot. I would

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  preview of what you're discussing. What better way to do this than with a ... make. 9. Make strained metaphors to a technical topic This is likely your ... disastrous compared to an error in a small one." "Which makes it more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  is a huge project that encourages dozens of MIT students to teach ... with once saying, "The trick to education is to teach people in such a ... floor of building 4, right next to a couple of classrooms they use to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  to a boarding school to finish high school; but sometimes, applying to ... decision? Does this student have the emotional and social maturity to be a ... section of Technology Review. I'll print some of it below, with a link to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  compiled a packing list for students here, to be used with caution. Some ... campus. -- a swimsuit, if you wish to beat the required swim test and ... . No need to bring the stock of a lifetime on the plane. And once you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  to the Museum of Science, one to a theater production of "There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom," one to a ranch, and a few others I can't seem ... to now give you a virtual field trip of sorts - into my dorm: Mc

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  .  compared to last year, I now live closer to our main wing lounge so I spent a ... . we eliminated a [annotation note="Alan Z. ’23, Jonathan H. ’25 and I decided to ... learned a lot solving problems in class. I hope to actually take the class

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  To take a leaf out of Sam's book: DID YOU KNOW? Charlotte/Douglas International Airport has a scale model of the Wright Brothers plane hanging from ... the last six hours, and have another eight to go. But this isn't about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl ... stretch to meet the lens. I once saw a woman squint a Saturn, and without ... taught Carl to play pool (a challenge, since the pool cue was probably

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  Many international applicants don't have a school counselor. The school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it's only for those who have a school counselor. A principal, headmaster, or
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  issues. It's not always a fun job, although I would like to think I ... reading, Hope to see you there, Good luck with finals and have a happy ... -off linked to a form that just contained a feelsbox. It’s almost the weekend

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  that; it's very difficult to learn new music over Zoom and there were a ... impart to you in one post. If you are a current MIT student reading this ... to be a more open, inclusive, and low-commitment a cappella group. They

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  that. I’d probably go to a local state school and maybe apply for ... was a letter to the future, to be read in five years. But here’s what I ... favorite poem (“What happens to a dream deferred?”). Then there was College

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you want to hear about?

  

  I would like to post more entries this summer, but this is an MIT ... life - I've certainly done it before - but a lot of my big rambles have been posted already, and I'm not sure what you guys want to hear about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  have used a calculator to convert the times, by multiplying the decimal ... "I need a hand." I was refering to the 3 hands on an analog clock. This ... Can you guess where I am right now? Points to the most creative

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005