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  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  Recently, I've been getting a lot of questions like, "Can I do my ... of this sort. You can do all of the parts of the MIT application in parallel. That is to say, order doesn't matter. (All of this assumes you have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  , Nancy Hopkins provides a passionate, first person account of the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  . Every week, I've been putting chalk art up on one of the boards, as well ... Chalk of the Day). The gig I'm doing kind of extends that part of student ... on a skateboard, doing an ollie out of a giant fire behind him I

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  projects are all happening at once, and lots of people are pretty hosed ... of the Institute. So even if none of us will ever have to deal with the ... freshmen) recommended by the committee, plenty of us are pretty mad about it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  probably one of the happiest people on the face of the earth. Unfortunately ... reactions weren't so positive. A lot of people told me to my face, "Bryan, you ... MIT had made a mistake or was admitting me on the basis of something

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  , which is a month of courses, events, and other activities around campus ... cooking for myself this month. I bought a lot of soup. A tad too much most likely. My pantry of food resembles that of the Soup Nazi. Anyways, I grab

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  As something of an absent blogger over the past few months, one of ... -1 only has two days left on Hulu!", or d) all of the above). However ... , right? Also, true to form, I have returned bringing you something of a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  It's that time of the year where everything winds down and you might ... towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... feared the finality of it, all at the same time. I find the act of ... music when you want an in-between: Switched on Pop (one of my favorite

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  a few aspects of taking care of yourself we wish we had learned two years ago. MIT has its times of incredible stress and it's during those times that these tips are most crucial. Taking care of yourself is

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  at each other, and both of us were like "You know, I really don't like dancing." Adam's line of reasoning is that once you're in a relationship ... instead of dancing. 2. Another anonymous commenter asked, Hi! I am thinking

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• 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 / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was apparently caused by a law requiring any restaurant with seating to also have ... understanding of the language. For example if somebody at the bank says "blah blah

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the ... in Davis Square, 4 short subway stops north of MIT's campus. They get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... . All three of these dorms have spectacular murals, but I wanted to talk ... first move in, one of the first steps in making East Campus your home is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about ... year at MIT. I think fondly of that year, despite all the difficulties that came with it. That first year had a particularly high yield of

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  this post is just a collection of goodbye-related passages from some of our favorite media. goodbye mit :’) for a fun challenge, try to figure out which of these came from cj and which ones came from vincent

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my ... interactions with strangers are at an all time low of impersonal. Gone are the days of awkward small talk over the counter at Target, or small smiles

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oodles Of Doodles Chris Peterson once impersonated me as such: "Blah blah blah Irish people, cartoons blah blah…

  

  Happy New Year, lovely folks of the internet! Kids 'round these ... have a cold so that means it is the perfect time... TO BLOG. In honor of ... still loved the class even at the end of the semester, even when I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... slightly, her calendar almost resembles the pointillist works of Seurat ... this lack of organization was partly due to never getting used to having

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009