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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  : The people. Hands down. The people at MIT are not what I expected them to be at all! Everyone works hard and studies, but they hang out, party ... up until 5am talking to friends instead of doing problem sets. I never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  made me certain that everything that happened inside of me had happened inside of someone else before. At the entrance of the venue, a woman who was checking IDs glanced at me and said, "You're definitely under twenty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  of us to have at least a shelf of our own personal stuff. Two of my roommates have their own shelf; one has their own small cabinet. None of them ... , but it's got a pretty good cabinet setup, with plenty of space for all

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  picked and pruned at what would make me seem most interesting, most full-of ... going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly ... I wanted to go, I convinced myself I would miss most of my shots so

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  because I've been telling myself that I don't need to blog at any given moment, but mostly because I haven't had any decent ideas. At first, I ... files. I am downright horrendous at keeping digital spaces clean, so my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  are destined to be forgotten. To sacrifice who you are at the feet of ... are at the end of this blog and I still want those who don’t know much ... the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  About 20,000 visitors took a peek at MIT during last Saturday ... place at the same time. Wow. If you haven't seen the flashmob video yet ... . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  today, you'll see a "Share on Facebook" link at the bottom of every blog ... I remember the first time I ever heard of Facebook. I was donning my cap and gown and preparing to walk at my high school graduation. Pomp

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  handful of indy hackers made their run at the Straw Poll, the ballot box was ... of the votes from making it into the poll. The idea of outing the main ... on the updated version of his hack site, "only keep one instance of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  The February 13 edition of Time Magazine had an interesting article ... keystroke away. There was one part of the article that made me feel a bit ... your first academic love." As for teaching science at the precollege

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  feel like I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I have learned to ... would’ve been looking at a surgery that would leave me unable to put ... naturally my whole life. Instead of walking, I was dragging, hopping, or

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  empirically speaking it seems like i’m equally good at picking up both kinds of ... added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there were a lot of people whom i recognized from classes or activities a few

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  , and he studied computer science and mathematics at MIT too. Of course ... the former CTO of FTX. He’s quite reclusive, and despite being a wealthy, high-powered individual helming one of the biggest cryptocurrency

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it's ironic ... . During my third nap of the day, at 6 pm, I was jerked out of half ... with a sore throat. I didn't think much of it—I get colds quite often, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  purpose of me writing this blog post is to give you some ideas on how to spend your time instead of freaking out about upcoming admissions decisions. Here is a list of things I came up with. (PS sorry it's all

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  push us to our limits all at once. Coming out of all this, I wish to ... some of you, and we Bloggers also met each other--most of our interaction is on the interwebz rather than IRL. Tomorrow, I am going to be at the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  while others swear by them. I've been at both sides of the spectrum and ... . At the beginning of the semester you say which classes you would like ... The last two years at MIT has been a large exercise in learning how I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  well. I resorted to normal video for most of the key moments (at least ... , cofounder of Lingt and inventor of the iDoor, which I lived behind one summer ... our shared ambitions of livestreaming graduation from our hats, I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  only wants you to be able to use maths to solve all sorts of problems ... to take classes known as HASS courses. (NOTE: literally everything at ... ethnomusicologist. It's a fascinating examination of the relationship between culture

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  'm posting my own tale of being admitted last year. Since this is the second ... chunk of this, solely because I can. Three people from my school applied ... and great, Neha had gotten in! But what about the two of us? What was

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006