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  Admissions Decisions

  

  We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out whether you've been admitted to MIT or not. I want to express to you all my confidence that you will be admitted to several great colleges, and a letter

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  media images and how brands did it. Then we had to create our own goals ... during a stressful semester. We’re all figuring out how to project a ... will not be online to tweet about it. Because that’s not how real life

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  trying to summarize the unsummarizable. How do you describe something that ... , but who also taught me how to be kind, how to lead with care, how to not ... their assiduousness. You know who you are."]how to intentionally and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  -dump-way-too-comprehensive-distinctly-personal version of a “How to put on a thousand-person hackathon in six months” guide ... "]Z*OM’S CONSTANT NEED TO UPDATE.[/annotation] I learned how to dial-in while travelling and how to inconspicuously eat my dinner at 9pm with my camera on

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  don't have time to care this much, and I forget how good it feels. In ... really fun to dive into; and I'm a frosh on [annotation note ="pass/no record, ie I can afford to take the time away from studying for my physics

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  to say, was a little wistful. Like how Tim Gunn cries at the end of ... about how Mitra and I were going to run the Boston Marathon. And then I ... how we used to go on play-dates to restaurants in Harvard Square and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  wonderful gift to humanity that is Pass/No Record, nobody will ever know how ... to become the model student I felt pressure to be, but my plans never ... bottom of my locker. But this year was going to be different. This was MIT

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you ... . However, our awesome Next House wing reps Gabe '11 and Sam '09 forced me to ... with each other. The dorm gives them an annual budget to spend at their

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  brushless motor. I’ve finally learned how to properly breathe in Yoga. I ... ’ve gone to office hours in my best pair of pajamas. I’ve turned 30 minute naps into 2 hr naps. I’ve repetitively failed at responding to free food

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of ... research. still others take the opportunity to travel through MIT MISTI. some ... take the month to catch up on sleep, work on personal projects (or bad

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  : Google, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Dropbox, Amazon… They’re all here, ready to talk to you. They might even add your resume to the thick stack on their ... the MIT bubble. You get to preview what’s way ahead. The life beyond and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  ’t quite sure how to start up the New Year. Should I eat till I was blue in ... We begin with certain trivialities. *Resolution: A firm decision to do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  to more practical concerns. "Once I worked out how much money I could ... a gift, and started thinking about how the algorithm behind the ... defect in the game: The visible numbers turned out to reveal essential

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  everyone thinks of when they hear "architecture major." We learn how to design and how to express our design's intentions with models, drawings ... Planning) and really want to pursue a minor but probably won't due to time

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  don't really know how to write it. There are so many things I want to say, and yet so many of them don't attach well to words - only to strong ... to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  how to research a company, how to network, and more. Career Week also ... , are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today, 300 companies are on campus trying to recruit MIT students to come work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  . I joined College Confidential. I finally decided that, no matter how ... matter) makes me want to throw up or strangle the writers, it doesn't do any good to pretend like it's not there and allow misinformation to run

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  " O.C. on September 28th). My visit to Orlando, by the numbers ... geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a ... prevention is always the best cure. "We have to learn that things have to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  truly matters to you, no matter how nontraditional it may seem + take ... applications. (What???) I'm hesitant to dole out reams of application advice, but there is one thing that I am confident in recommending to you. (And

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  describe how much happier I've been since I've come to college. I learned so ... again but the words can't come out right and I don't know how else to ... offer me right now. I don't know how to explain this without making a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019