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  the office, giving my eyes a brief rest from all of the applications ... nearly a week in email)... Shabin asked, "Will my family's finacial ... unsuccessful attempt an excuse): "My family cannot afford the application fee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  making adjustments and enhancements to the application that generates My ... current goals: #1 Videos Portlet MyMIT just partnered with MIT World, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and recommendations - and in many cases I was dead-on - which means that my "calibration

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  As MIT Admissions’ one and only “jockblogger,” I have decided it’s my task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock ... it.  I learned that MIT was a jock school by living in it. I saw my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  predictions from my decisions. (i.e., if I don’t finish this assignment now ... will convey my thoughts to those who end up reading this, and whether that will have consequences on how my blog impacts those people, and so

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  with various displays of creativity and mischief. These are some of my ... .), but my favorite instance was a particular rendition of “All of Me,” by John Legend. I was sitting on a nearby couch, eating my lunch when it

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  . Winter meant my dad starting the cars 20 minutes early before we all piled ... . Living so far from friends meant that my siblings were my main source of ... long navy peacoat adorned my shoulders in place of mismatched gloves and

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  paint with five other girls in my sorority. Further down the bridge is a ... bridge? Not even an hour earlier, I was minding my own business, desperately trying to Courseroad and reorganize my junior year, when I received

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  my last concert with the mit ohms, my a cappella group, happened ... . then i built my first sound system, connecting the 5 av mics to the av ... years of my time in college of course 5 mics wasn’t enough, so we also

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  and realized that repeating years of my life with full knowledge of ... . My answer is always because I love learning, and I love taking classes ... inflicted upon me—means being okay with having less money or status than my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  know us from my previous blog post where I investigated a fire that ... difficult to look back on my time at MIT and not also see it as my time at WILG, since the two are so inextricably intertwined. My memories of dorm

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know ... won't like in the future. As a challenge to myself, I'm putting my ... points. Here are some of the things I've learned to be true from my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my free time and not care about my impact on the world? you think i can just ... left my mind since. i think this is because the ideas the grad student

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  's the kind that makes me want to move my head to the music, to move my ... . so many of my friends had so many different performances, and i could ... shakespeare ensemble or the toons or asian dance troupe or tech twinkles. my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  naps than studying in my opinion. Add in the pretty comfortable green ... My Life 11.011 - The Art and Science of Negotiation 5.12 - Organic ... distance  from my dorm to feel like an excursion of a sort CAVA - also in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  the first of my grad school app deadlines: an application to the NSF ... telling a [annotation note="you all are my friends yes? yes. good ... and resubmit it based on comments from my TA. Some of you might also be

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August or September of 2016. I thought, in the style of my last blog post, I would write some snappy lines about how my bio no longer captures how I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  particularly memorable. Until eventually, my standards raise to the point that ... in Ilocos Norte. The day after my sixteenth birthday I ditched school ... trip took two hours. It was the farthest I had ever traveled on my own

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  my time at M*T. All this has been fine, until this week when I've been ... work. (Or I'll try my best, and no hard feelings if it doesn't.) vital ... ; hated the idea of being the only anthropology major in my year; pined

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  York’s JFK airport (where my trans-atlantic flight was leaving from) out ... my initial introduction to Italian hot chocolate, which should make the ... . Day 5: Pavia, the titular city of the province and the city of my

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018