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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  I find it a lot more useful to go through old problem sets and tests ... I sold several old textbooks back to the Coop, sold a few more on Amazon Marketplace, and got stopped next to the Stata Center to take a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  administrative role and a great opportunity to learn about how nonprofits operate ... problem was I didn’t get to do much of it. So armed with a greater ... . Our mission is to enroll a talented and diverse community, in which students

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  to those with a “stronger” profile, which would make the very possible ... trying to do something important with a deadline, like apply to college ... listen to your essay being read aloud, either by a computer or a friend, to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  find ways to drive action, create drama, all in a theatrically compelling ... classmates. It was ultimately liberating, I think, to have had a supportive ... questions to pose. Being simultaneously an MIT student and a writer is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  guy at the counter recommended I find a group of people to split a cab ... flew to Greece for a couple of days to spend time with my parents (who ... my way back to Berlin. I had booked a flight for Thursday night, since

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... more ways to jump over, onto, and off various objects! I'm taking 18.02A ... master of div, grad, AND curl!!!...which is to say, I'm having a real good

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  of my shorts and trying desperately to find a date to prom. Then one ... wanted to go to college, and I had a few ideas of where I wanted to apply ... class, you were guaranteed admission to a state school, so I figured

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  and then headed down to find a better vantage point. Deciding that ... talking about in the morning, and I managed to catch a glimpse of it on my way to a 7.03 (genetics) exam in the morning. After the exam, I headed

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  my email to find that the due date for the algorithms pset, by a ... year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left ... began to sacrificially prepare myself for a massive MATLAB lab and a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  a player, your first instincts are probably to a) run, b) find a safe ... and knowledge of electronics came together several years ago to create a ... has different goals – you need to a) help get others to safety, b

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  coordinator (basically a guidance counselor) to review my college application ... supplemental essays was gross, since I figured I was just going to go to a state ... .org. A series of clicks led to me opening a MyMIT account and filling out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  walked around the area trying to find a Starbucks, and for the first time ... England Aquarium to check out Sharks 3D. There was a catch, of course. Before watching the movie, we had to listen to a lecture given by the state

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  about where I'd end up in just a few months. The only way to give each and every one of you a fair chance is to read what you've presented to us, and ... yourself, we wanted to give you a little insight into what we're doing while

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  Action. This is a longstanding policy. There is no reason to rush your ... been unable to [annotation note='As a reminder, we are suspending our ... —  could use a bit more time to get everything together for their college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  found an MBTA worker who told me to go down a sus little corridor to find ... question: What is liveblogging? The answer: (according to Wikipedia) a ... the bloggers used to do more often on MITAdmissions. Essentially, like a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  to find [annotation note="the building Makerlodge is in, the Deep ... it ourselves (due to time constraints), so they gave us a choice of ... printing. Afterward, we loaded it onto a USB drive, and fed it to the printer

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  ) those same ECs spent their afternoon finding out how to be even more ... students they meet. To give up a gorgeous weekend afternoon to sit in a meeting room in a library says a lot about their commitment to the process

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a ... Dominos has brought the concept to a whole new level. I just think this is ... residence in Massachusetts. All I had to do was bring a credit card statement

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  finding a balance between activities I did in High School, and new ones. The ... like a shame to not try anything new. So, I had to adopt some kind of ... /No Record is a great time to do this – to adopt the “I want to be busy, but

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / CPW

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

  

  nights and interesting experiences, I want to reflect a little on my first ... east coast to a state you’ve never set foot in. But on the other hand ... -on suitcase, and a newly purchased MIT sweatshirt that I probably wore to school

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024