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• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  ,[/annotation] I can tell you that I was nauseous once, too. But as a self ... dorms I could live in. Some people around me--my mom who went to her state ... campus. Except I have never in my life had enough self-confidence to be

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely wanted something to do.  MIT is no walk in the park and I wanted an ... , writing and discussion." but I find this definition is lacking in a few

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.

  

  This summer Random Hall was under construction. When I was in town I ... tried to take photos when I was in town, starting with some evenings ... th I took photos on the way back from tooling on campus in our favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  dancing in an empty room, so we can shorten the phrase “dance like no one ... span of moments in which you’re not quite ready to accept the fact that ... was in your calendar the scent of rain the act of looking for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  websites and learn stuff, i can't do it. i can't do it all. Here I used the ... One. In October 2017, I left home and lived on my own for several ... else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  , however, my exchange friends and I did a pre-Spring Break weekend trip in ... in Prague. I've traveled solo before, but this was the first time I'd done it for an extended, multi-city trip. In the following week, I went

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  of my luggage down. Amina lived in a very spacious triple. I wish I had ... , so I took a picture of him as to not repeat pictures in these blogs ... other in years. I'm sure there were other people I knew previously at MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  in 2006. Our institutional research website says, quite specifically, that “alumni relations” are “not considered.” And I can tell you, from ... from? After a little academic archaeology, this is what I found. In an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  doing the Housing Lottery—reading and watching i3s, visiting dorm websites ... knew that one was right for me. Senior Haus had a line in their i3 that ... Con, the IFC, Panhel, and the LGC. The actual Guide itself can be found in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  professor a couple weeks in advance to be like, "hey dude, i don't think i can ... to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... , "please love yourself," and i'm like, "well, i'm in it already and i feel

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you ... baby:   Going in order from above, let's see what I've got ... beginning). I ASEd 6.0001, so I haven't done any real coding in a while. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  then. And though I still can't grow a decent beard, oh how the times have ... thought of MIT because they'd find it fun too? I actually do believe in viral marketing, which is to say that I believe promotions can be as fun

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

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  I'm currently in Indianapolis, busy with the Intel International ... when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  it out! I won't make any money if you do; in fact, the Amazon S3 bucket ... IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions ... activities go, I'm usually only concerned with some subset of these activities

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  crab. Since I’m smiling in the picture, I can only presume that I was ... exist as a digital copy in some stranger’s pocket. I can’t tell if this is ... I can’t remember the last time I dressed up for Halloween. Last year

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... heavily, but in some cases yes. / Yes. I am an international student in an ... rest of your application is strong. I am taking my second time of SATs in

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  front of a television watching an 8-bit blue hedgehog in snazzy red sneakers run into gold rings, I'm sitting in a dark concert hall watching a ... for a game set in ancient Rome, but I was ready to get back to the more

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  check in occasionally so I'd suggest you pick an event where you can meet ... weekend has in store for that set of guests. But before I do that here are ... -ed dorm. I was, after all, her "little girl". We both enjoyed our time in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  and I went to see the one of these 50 student groups in action ... ). Although I don't want to give away the play's ending - you can rely on ... One all-too-common misunderstanding I've encountered about MIT is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  More than a month ago, I stepped drowsily off a Southwest Airlines ... . After what seemed like forever, I arrived on the MIT campus, duly deposited my belongings in McCormick Hall, and proceeded to video

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009