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  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of them and use them for signing in now) with Mac keyboards (thank goodness

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

    In two days, I will be officially graduating this place. I ... that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... ideas are as fluid as electrons in an E-­field, motivating me to learn how

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  :       Don't refer to yourself in the 3rd person. It ... Prize in Biology and attributing all of your success to your admission to ... you want to "keep it real" get an "A" in Calculus. That's hot! Never

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  cj: it turns out that people in my hall like making guest posts so ... depression.[/annotation] [annotation note="cj: citing a paper in a blog post is in character for jacky don’t worry"][/annotation] I admit that my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  right away, and it might feel like nothing could go wrong. But in college ... welcomed, and the freshmen you met in your last year and were able to mentor ... to it in darker times. Words of caution: beware of connecting your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... consumption over a month: they found that a net positive increase in movies per ... in Boston was screening Interstellar a couple of times on Wednesday

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  admissions. Why I Chose MIT  In all honesty, there are times (*cough* hell ... gifs) I visited MIT for the first time during CPW, and I came in ... spirit of MIT. People here want to change the world - in whatever way they

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  the campus surrounding 77 Mass Ave, but instead immersed in the ... incredible amount that never would have been possible in a traditional academic ... theirs. This post has been several months in the making, as I navigate

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  that dream in the sky that I think I wanted more than other dreams in the ... essay is like, I share mine with you. You'll learn more about me in the process, which is really what the essay is supposed to do in the first place

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? In Burton-Conner, if you keep leaving your suite messy ... seven favorite words in the English language. In order, they are: 1 ... live in squalor." My heart beat a little bit faster as everyone else

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  geography. That is to say, many international students live in the US, and ... money each student needs in financial aid to attend MIT. We will meet ... admitted each year. In each of the past few years, greater than 2000

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  I graduated from MIT in 2011. Upon graduating, and while living alone in a city where I knew nobody, I filled my time with new hobbies and ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... changed a LOT in the few years I’ve been gone. Registration is now online. There are tons of new professors. New shops in the student center. Online

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  -bloggers and MIT ex-pats, I live a stone's throw away in Cambridge's Central Square. My lifestyle has changed in ways subtle and profound. For example ... food that comes in a brown paper bag: Brazilian cheese bread. I'll leave

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay afloat in the deep end that is my job, and connecting with polar opposites ... about it. Where I am and where I want to be. Sometimes things happen in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  Street MBTA station, the Boston Common, oldest park in the country, is the ... the park in a glorious architectural mix are an AMC movie theatre, a ... sitting in the Common’s green spaces with the freshest breeze teasing our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  feel for MIT life. And I fell in love with it. I wanted to go to MIT more than anything else in the world. I had already submitted my EA ... was saddened as I walked down the Infinite Corridor, had lunch in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  an AP test in my life. My GPA wasn’t perfect (still isn’t). I was ... was a competition, in which the applicants strove to cast themselves in ... did nothing but study and mire in awkwardness. And I learned that a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise. Or see a movie for $3 at LSC. Or bring up singularities in everyday ... Friday I turned in my last problem set ever at MIT. So the other day I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007