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  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  mention school and real life), I do need to mention one vital part of the application process that should be at the top of your To Do list: the interview ... EC directly, and the contact information is listed in your My

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  , towards the end of this student's senior year, a small skirmish took place on the dorm's e-mail list between this senior and an undergraduate in ... true, i admire [name]'s heroism for taking time out of his busy final

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  Some of you asked for pictures of a Senior House dorm room, and I decided to do you one better and give you a bit of a dorm tour! So here are a few glimpses of the Haus. (The Haus/House spelling used to be an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  impressive slate of visitors over the past year - Melis recently blogged about ... Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. In terms of my personal excitement level, I still think Neil wins. (No offense to the guv'nor, of course.) Of course

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year ... . UPDATE: I also wrote a post like this for 2020, 2021, and 2022. Things I read for class All of these things I read for 21W.022, Reading and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  Over a week has passed since Pi day, and the reality of the MIT ... admission, there is a bit of role reversal as a new decision date approaches at the beginning of May, when an enrollment decision must be made

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  about the breakdown of it. The structure of the word entices you to wonder ... flurry of confetti at any given moment. Gosh, this is so cheesy I could ... of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far the scarier part) But here I am now, answering some of the questions

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  , I'm reminded of the times I said 'UROP' and my grandparents thought I was mispronouncing the name of a continent, or the way I refused to call ... . I gave in. I now speak in numbers and nicknames and mailing lists

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  says sleep isn't on your list of things you did over CPW either. Am I ... 's entire stock of organic portobello mushrooms. Think of the vegetarians, people! -dumped (with the aid of other SH residents) six thousand neon

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  than others. The list of requirements for each major is here; some majors ... diploma with both areas of specialization written on it, and we don't do ... between 15 and 20 percent of MIT students graduate with bachelors degrees in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  . Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can maintain your sanity or enjoys the light chaos of taking tons of classes, go for it, but the number of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] As some of you might already know, the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream opened last ... , clever new interpretations, and a great deal of humor, and Midsummer Night

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in ... really cool article. Then on midnight of the 12th day of the festival, a ... the star of fire to reach the zenith. Once it did, the priest would

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  ... Like most MIT students, at the start of every semester I make my trip ... passing thought. One of my new housemates lives west of me, within the US; she was also hoping to drive to Boston instead of fly. "Hey Mom, wouldn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  doing? Does this research even matter?" Have no fear! Check out this list of the 20 Craziest Scientific Researches. Some of the Craziest ... Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  've been satisfying that urge by writing a couple of marginally helpful posts ... 's nothing on my beloved Hayden, but I must say that a library in front of Washington Sq Park and an entire street of yummy treats (aka. St Marks) nearby

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  -time, and did all sorts of [annotation note="including but not limited to ... have a lot of "free time", free in the sense that you don't have that ... juggling classes, DormCon, and other dorm obligations, I had a fair amount of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  field. For so long, I had put off taking any initiative outside of class ... of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to ... of myself for doing these things, and even though it seems kind of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  *written by Sharon L. '21 as a part of the 8,726,500 Seconds of ... devices in between. Regardless of your role within the factory, whether it ... on the monitors. That’s one of the problems the startup I’m working at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018