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  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  dissuaded by teachers, relatives, and friends. It happens. Just don't let them ... titles make you want to be their friend and classmate? Don't invent the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  I came across a news article on a friend’s Facebook page the other day. The U.S. Senate congratulated MIT on its 150th anniversary in Senate Resolution 195. "Mr. BROWN of Massachusetts (for himself and Mr

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  friend at the time what the best school in the world was. Without the slightest hesitation, his friend replied, “MIT”: Zahir wanted to

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  friends (MIT alums) at the Googleplex. I signed an NDA, so I'm not sure what ... . Visiting with friends at Stanford, both grad students (former MIT classmates

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  him to an idiot, a lunatic, a catatonic.” 1am: i climb onto my bed and try to fall asleep. unfortunately my neighbors are having a lengthy ... interview. i was pretty nervous for it - it was my first ever in-person job

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  “This is it,” I thought as I submitted my last college essay. “I ... on my mind: What is a “white paper”? What do they mean by ... bearings. They also answered my question about what a white paper should be

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  start is reading the given prompt. This was my prompt for my CMS.616 Games ... journals listed at my resource page at http ... be really interesting to do my paper on spectatorship and Twitch and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  . During my confrontation with Level 10 Opponent “Electricity and Magnetism Exam” on Friday morning, my challenger played the familiar “Long, Hideous ... calculate anything, oops” card from my emergency deck, slapped it all over

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  after a friend asked me, “What is wrong with you,” after seeing my Canvas ... calorimeter was actually a pretty good analogy for my life, and then I decided I had a problem.   In my head, work is an escape. Working is how I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  friends with several MIT professors. Not just the music professors, I must ... ."]he casually suggested inviting "[his] good friend Yo-Yo Ma" as the moderator for ... of my notes, but in any case, here is my best approximation of what

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  assigned around 13 students, and I quite liked my crew. Throughout the week ... of a flower, the people of my orientation group seemed to blossom.  As I spent much of my time around first years, I found myself giving

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  my friends and can confirm that it was very free, very easy, and very ... expiring, so here I am. Per my previous post: the November Rule is technically over. Also per my previous post, this doesn’t mean that it’s okay

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Music Man is my least favorite musical ever. The ... describing the entirety of my visit, you can check out Mitra's entry on the ... 't already have high school friend coing to college in NYC, you're bound to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  , this manifests itself in not ever seeing my friends. Over the summer, I ... up all my stuff and saying bye to friends. I think that I was in too ... , I write about video games from a CMS-y perspective for my major, but

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  Chat with friends the MIT way! Zephyr is an internet chat protocol (like ... . We'll show you how to use Zephyr to hang out with friends, get help ... -along It's hard to overstate my satisfaction with how much this event is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  during playtesting did my friends point out that most people hold guitars ... " align="aligncenter" width="768"] My friends think this photo looks AI ... “Wow, MIT has a class about digital instrument design now?”, my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  can officially have is two majors and two minors. (My friend Swapna '05 ... proverbial creek without the proverbial paddle tomorrow if I didn't split my ... reservoir of parental TechCash money, and I actually have to pay for all my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  , in two or three years. But to answer your question, most of my friends ... complete, with 4-6 years being the norm, at least among my friends. For ... , as I write this entry, I'm also half-watching one of my ten favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  missions (whatever; I am familiar via a number of my high school friends ... discussions I’ve had with my Mormon friends), and rules-testing the ... -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  as many of my other maker friends. It’s also how I got to know my first ... in my hands, seeing beautiful lines flow from my pencil, is so insanely addicting. I never built anything technical in high school, but in my senior

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025