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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  Hi blogosphere! I've wracked my brain wondering how to introduce myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all weekend. I cannot hope to match their wit and experiences, but I am SO

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  me to do the session there since I ate quite a few meals in that same ... closed. But I digress...last Friday morning I was assigned to do the session. Now, I knew that the application was due to be go live this week

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  ! Hopefully you'll be able to join us for Campus Preview Weekend. When I was a prefrosh, I couldn't make it to CPW, but I visited on my own about a month later. Either way, I urge everyone, admitted or otherwise, to try to visit

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  awarded the Nobel prize, bringing the grand total to 63 faculty, researchers ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during ... for Cancer Research also just so happens to be home to Phillip Sharp

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  MIT iGEM team, was on his way to eat with some friends at a new (for him) restaurant. Summer is a time where students find even more time to explore ... visitors!) to try. They're many of my favorite places! Cafe Baraka: A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  to celebrate his birthday and my graduation. Adam still has a year to go until he graduates, and then he hopes to stay at MIT to get his ... ). All of our stuff is carefully packed and ready to move, and I am super

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike, who are super awesome. They were really a lot of fun to hang out with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  'll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone call from Procter and Gamble alerting me to the fact that I had an interview at 3.45 PM. Now do keep in mind that I went to sleep at about 4 am

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a ... : "Today is the last day the world will only have 5 Harry Potter books to ... around the office hoping to waste as much time as possible. I count making

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  and a Slack message from Petey appears saying, “Kellen, I need you to ... , December 19, 3:14 PM EST. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/14/17, at 6:28PM ET

  

  I've stopped watching this baby lion trying to roar long enough to ... online next Thursday, 12/14/17, at Tau Time (i.e. 6:28PM ET). To check ... MyMIT username and password. In order to verify that you will receive

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  On time and noise I've been meaning to write a post recently about time and what I want this semester to be like. And then Gloria Z. '26 wrote this post that I really enjoyed, and related to a lot. Notably: I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  freshman year, but only just got around to taking it since it was hard to ... committed to taking it since it's just as great as I expected, and I'm super excited to have the opportunity to create choreography in an academic

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  will describe to you in painful detail in a later post."]my three ... that we were going to visit Vancouver for a weekend. We drove up, crossed ... note="which we consistently referred to as 'fake money' throughout our

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  was going to fare in college. Being slightly socially awkward and extremely self-conscious of everything I do, it was difficult for me to feel comfortable around my peers. I didn't really know if I was going to find a group

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I ... needed to wash my hair, I decide to take a shower. Between that, getting ... hour? A friend asks me if I’m going to [annotation note="8.01 is

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  . It’s already exposed me to a lot, some of which doesn’t even have to do ... expected many things. What I did not expect was to be treated, so suddenly, like an adult. That might sound strange to you, but what I mean is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  -the-waitlistee) '10, who asked, How many hours a week did you/do you dedicate to ... friend. :-D] I know it must be kind of confusing to reconcile the fact that ... to wrap your collective heads around: 1) MIT students really like to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  grading systems. We want you to know that we accept whatever grades your school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... assessments, or something else. In some cases, you may have the ability to
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  vague sense) that my undergraduate education was going to open many doors ... I'll circle back to this idea later. But when I got here, it didn ... dreams and goals of what's going to happen 100 or 1000 steps from now. From

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024