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  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  look at it yourself. Here is a non-scientific list of the most commonly ... [independant, 6% of the time] calculus [calculous, 2%] honor roll [honor role ... errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  , the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as ... a vital part of the MIT community. Among other things, transfers have ... Emily, who many of you interacted with during the transfer admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Stud/Fac Dinners Genius idea to get free dinner with MIT geniuses

  

  with faculty outside of the classroom/lab, our council pays up to $25 per ... friends and I spent the next few hours (well, days, sort of) trying to ... The 2006 Class Council is responsible for planning and executing many

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  high school was competitive to the point of being toxic, and that it ... going anywhere. I remember sometimes pausing in the middle of doing ... , because everything almost felt too purposeful. Most of the art I made was to

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  ; sending duplicate copies will only slow the processing of your documents ... MIT.   Due to the volume of documents we expect to receive, documents ... MIT tracking page is for!), as it will slow down the processing of documents

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing ... , but in the past I have acquired both a pair of jeans and a Snuggie ... , you are equipped to understand the flurry of e-mails I have received

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  's been an outpouring of overwhelmed-ness amongst the 6.005 student body. This feeling of utter panic manifested itself on the 6.005 Piazza site ... the Beta submission of problem set 2 to Sunday 11:59 PM. Armando and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  random songs with the names of Pokémon.  Right before ... , but we decided to forbid the use of Ctrl+F, which made it difficult to ... of the new ones. You might be too young to remember this (oh God), but

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  . Seen lots of movies (prior to this, the last time I went to a theater was ... , one of the largest winter festivals in the world! IAP is awesome! ... don't sleep, and perhaps that Chris M. is pretty smooth with the ladies

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  , Kentucky, at my mom's house. I'll be staying here through the end of the APO ... differently with people. Such is the nature of being in very different ... of the year has passed, and now the days begin finally to lengthen

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  of the other applications in the pile, no matter what the numbers are ... into the overall community. (I think my friend Becky is one of the ... it’ll really be a mess. So that’s not the kind of honesty I’m talking

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  series of blog entries you have ever seen. To entice you, here are the topics of these entries: 1. a trip to the Lyric Stage Company with some ... grad students, a sixty-mile stretch of rural highway, and the most

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  him in the basement of the medical building, and Will R. '16 and I got ... the basement of MIT medical, bought fritos from a vending machine, and ... , though, and I'm going back tomorrow morning to see if any of the other

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  floor of the Student Center. You'll introduce yourselves to us; we ... , Johnson. This is, in my opinion, one of the most valuable events of CPW ... . See behind the scenes of MIT's student radio station and its enormous

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  My classes start at 9:30 every morning this term. If the world operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  semester of working all day and into the night, and snatching thirty minutes of relaxation at the very end at the cost of thirty minutes of sleep; a semester of realizing that of the x things i have due tomorrow, only floor

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  Hello everyone! The following was written by a couple friends of ... realized at the end of fall semester was that actually, all the ROTC members ... (obviously, we’re a little biased), and we get a lot of questions about the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  Compared to the previous, this semester was less tumultuous, more of ... up at the end of every semester: learning more from my classes, exercising more, being more on top of things, etc. But I think I did the best I

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the ... time i push it back, i'm aware of it through the physical action of ... the future. for example, here's a screenshot of this week, which is

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  friends, or my mom's cooking, or the generally lethargic mood of my old ... new, to the point where I couldn't possibly see the magic of this place going away for me. This is the place I've dreamed of for most of my life

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016