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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  My Favorite Spots in Cambridge/Boston well-trodden and well-hidden alike

  

  's for some ice cream. As we tried to figure out how to navigate home from ... surroundings was limited to the MIT area, Chinatown, and the Back Bay. Now, I ... 's super fun to hang out at and also makes for an unconventional date spot

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  ’t go according to plan. How did you manage the situation? (200-250 words ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear that there's no reason to start on them now, but some people like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  to my 21A.01 “How Culture Works” professor explaining that I would have ... online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... person with some unique circumstance) and you open up your grade report to

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  . Usually I'd mention how you have to wait to get off the plane but this seat ... you will need to be able to pick your seat. I warn you that all of the ... Weighing the Pros/Cons I'm going to use a couple of initialisms here so that

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  networks. Hopefully during IAP, I'll have time to learn how to do perfusions ... two workshops that taught me how to handle and work with rats and mice ... 're looking for a testament to how awesome rats can be, here are some rats

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  here at MIT. AROTC allows you to be pretty flexible in how involved you ... , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go ... learning how to jump out of airplanes, the Army way. That means you go out

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Liveblog from Apple Store I copy Paul, 3 hours later.

  

  power to decide whether you will stay in them or not. This does not necessarily apply to McCormick, I'm not sure exactly how that works. 3) Your ... black macbook to write my entry. I, of course, have to add MIT content to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  be using the waitlist, and, if so, how many people we'll be looking to ... The Class of 2010 is beginning to take shape. We know some replies ... government will sell shirts or hoodies with "MMX" or "MITMMX" on it (props to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  As part of my desire to make this blog more interactive, and since ... doing this? (It's scary how much I feel like Jonathan as I write, "The exposure. The experience.") Well, I'll write a whole blog entry dedicated to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in our work before we retreat to selection committee tomorrow. (Don't get ... on schedule to mail decisions in mid-march.) MyMIT has been pretty

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  pivoted towards my dad, “How can you not be upset? Are you not going to miss ... . Recently, I tried to tap back into how I felt when I was in her shoes. For ... said goodbye to my parents ten times. The first time they dropped me off

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  discuss how we felt about this semester and plan for next semester to be ... I'm given to understand that at other colleges, students actually get ... , but we still call it Dead Week, and I'd say we manage to cram about a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  Boston to Frankfurt, and then Frankfurt to Almaty, the cultural and educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th ... IOI convenes delegations of students from all over the world to compete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  significant amount of time. How would only three activities look to the ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... - remember that we have no quotas for majors, which is why you apply to MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  was no crash course for how to apply and make a strong application. I ... my head that I was giving too much attention to. Despite how difficult ... it was meant to. Similar to how my gut told me to just take the MCAT

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  keep track of who is saying what, and how they sound is the cue to who ... undergraduate students from the United Kingdom. To have gotten to MIT she had to ... effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  , to reflect how I see myself to those who see me.    In high school, I ... wanted nothing more than to go back in time and take those classes. I spent the rest of that day complaining to anyone around me.  When I met with

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  semester I realized how precarious it is to strike a balance between being a ... It’s been a hot second since I last blogged- about ten weeks, to be ... disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  stop for the second bus we needed to catch. No matter how many people we ... to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012