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• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the ... . Outside of school I like to write, and I’m involved in musical theater. I ... MIT programs. I love the feeling of being small in big nature, which

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  't really part of my college search vocabulary or conceptual framework. I can ... in. But within a month or two of working here, I knew I'd made the ... . But I wanted to highlight the importance of match because when I was in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  ,” and I suspect that I will share some of them in due time.  However, as I ... ’s chances of thriving.  There are settings in which I did really excellent ... I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  admissions? Jones: It can be a big driver. Many of us in college admissions ... MIT's Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones (our rockin' leader) is in the ... : Easing Stress of Getting In Looking at colleges with her daughter was often

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  I truly had a sense of autonomy in my life decisions. Neither of my ... ) and were amazing in their own way - some of which were people I had met ... would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  existed in a constant state of "how should I be spending my time?". Working ... For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full ... .[/annotation] I'll write about that experience more in depth in another blog, but

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

  End of term

  

  Jones. For me, I was happy to partake in the Lab for Chocolate Science ... "Red Sox Swap" instead, swapping socks (of all colors) -- you can't make ... , and we'll get to do a whole bunch of fun Boston things. Then, I'll head

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  One of the things I love about the Boston area is that being a ... attending MIT, you can even get into events for free. Last weekend, I took ... the empty frames of artwork that was stolen in a heist during the 1990s

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  of multicolored lights, in dorms that let you do that, is beautiful. I ... Correction from my previous entry: I'm told that you can paint your ... and paint it back at the end of the year. Just so my readers know, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  interview. So here goes. In my senior year of high school, I was living in ... front of you? is this an identity test?]: Um, I live in ... folders (I'm kind of a laptop organization freak): "Grad School Apps," "La

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

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

  

  's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday ... Space Weapons" and everything in between. You can check out some of the ... of which I decided to avail myself while preparing for my class in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  + piccolo) below the seat in front of me just the way I was taught by ... egregious lies in all of scientific history. You guessed it, I'm referring ... tiles, and I laid in bed and watched for a while. Some mornings also

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.

  

  -year career. Well, I sure enjoyed my month home in Harrisburg, although ... , but it's a really intense course: 9 days, 9 hours a day, 9 units. I can ... MIT guest in Harrisburg, an 800-pound butter sculpture, and, of course

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  'm reminded of why I'm at this school in the first place. Being an MIT student ... test. I can name a One Direction song within 3 seconds of listening, but ... of an identity that I've lost in the months coming here. But I'm slowly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat, RETREAT!! A weekend vacation.

  

  So this weekend my 61 of my fraternity brothers and I drove several ... to this place. 2. I'd never driven in the snow. 3. It was dark. Thank ... can't really see in Boston), ran around in the snow, etc. And

  • by Bryan
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from ... couple of great courses dedicated to Sustainability in Business and I ... One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  thing I can think of right now is what comes immediately after final exams ... .) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done ... in the tagline, the fight's begun but not yet won, and I'd rather blog

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  syndrome this summer, and I can’t tell if it’s because of the team I worked ... naively thought that I could see all of NYC in 3 days and was quickly ... Met and MoMA. I had a lot of good food. So many people I knew were in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and while we consider them all in their context, we need to know some common ... awhile, we would expect to see the results of your standardized tests
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  difference is to give you a portrayal of what a typical day is like in both ... breakfast for those 10 extra precious minutes of sleep. Get ready for class in ... would definitely do my PhD in, if I were to come to MIT for grad school

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008