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  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  . There is an option where you can indicate this. Got it. Ok, how do I ... important info below. 
What is it? The MIT February Updates and Notes Form ... application. Who should fill it out? Everyone! Even those already accepted

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  , while for others it has just begun. In the admissions office, we are ... essential aspect of the college admissions process, it is somewhat problematic that it frequently seems to be part of a continuous feedback loop. Allow

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  like, socially. And no matter how I try to frame it in my mind, making ... to really tell how reciprocal it is. IRL, you can easily see the people ... no large gatherings?? If I think about it too long, I get so mad at

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  a long blog about both, but I felt it would be better to ... nervous about how the semester would go. Yes, I heard it wasn't the end of ... packet seemed like a long time, so it couldn't be that bad? But that

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  noticed how hard it was for me to think of solutions to problems compared to how it usually would be, which brought this issue to my attention ... wanted to write it anyway, so here I am. I considered just not writing

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  realize how many people in my community still just don’t get it, and made ... -feet ice-cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling: How could it be so ... , signed, framed, and displayed outside the store. A post-it note on one of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  . exactly how i want it. SPOILER ALERT: NO IT DID NOT GO LIKE THIS AT ALL ... hopes of making good impressions but i realize at this point it will all ... relationship with mit like on one of those public facebook post thingies it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  and how to use it. Along with installing i3, I also installed vim in ... field. For so long, I had put off taking any initiative outside of class ... of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  days. Me? I'm a slacker. Well, here's my excuse: it was a four ... many assignments due Wednesday, and I would just be like, "Oh, oh, oh, it's such a nice day. How can I look at a computer screen right now?" And I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  Okay, so it's been inexcusably long since I last wrote here. This is probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries ... * -- and I'm here thinking about how awesome CPW's going to be next month. I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  a “how’s it going?” But more so than ever, I’m trying to make the ... . To talk about how failure sucks, but it’s also how we grow. To talk ... . So let me ask you, how are you? How are you really? Because I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  tends to meander in all directions I’m clueless on how to summarize it. I ... plot-convenient things (snerk), I knew I couldn’t keep it up for long. Which was really just a stupid lie because as long as I wanted to keep it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those ... went to that baby college down the long water road. There's a lot of stores and cool things over there. We rode the bus across town and it was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  not know how to use a pipette: Cambridge teaches passion. It assumes ... not hate yourself after doing it. (I don't care how much satisfaction ... . Moreover, this set is rather rigidly defined for undergrads; it's an old

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  There's one week left of my freshman year - how much can you fit in a ... Pepper Sky to commemorate our last 5.12 exam. (It's tradition.) And if that's not enough for you, I have four-hour long shifts times three left

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  the three day week that should have been ten days long is forthcoming ... "How do I get to New Amsterdam?" "Just follow that road and don't be ... and through. But every time it matters all my words desert me, so anyone

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  , I thought it'd be fun to share my study tips on How to Finals ... . It's a time to show how much and how effectively you've prepared and how well you've mastered the material. Fake it till you make it. As

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  steak, but it does have an interesting, distinct texture. Oh to know such ... event. I was initially hesitant about going since it seemed like the event ... pizza and Indian food, we raved about how much [annotation note

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  icing on a cake. It looked nothing short of inviting. (Had I known how ... they're versatile enough to be savory (if you put eggs and stuff on it ... , ironing it into a flat circle with a little rod-like thing. When both sides

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

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