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  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  that is why i joined the mit student body, just because of haikubot The ... I retrained Robo-CJ to write haiku. This is coincidentally very timely, because as Shuli J. ’22 pointed out, today is International Haiku

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  and web sites that have been useful to me at MIT: F.lux. If sleep is ... The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers ... laptops that MIT recommends: Macs, Dells, and Thinkpads. I’ve seen MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Decisions Details for retrieving your EA admissions decision on Monday evening.

  

  : MIT Admissions Decisions Online Monday Sent: Wednesday, December 10 ... decisions.mit.edu. Admissions decisions will be available exclusively online. To ensure that you will receive a decision online, please visit https://decisions.mit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Ahh, the application essay. Why is it so agonizing for students ... staff? Is there such a thing as too personal? I can't recall precisely when I decided to apply to MIT Early Action. Or precisely why. It was

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is fixed! The deadline for EA has been extended to November 5 due to the recent MyMIT…

  

  The site is back online and peace has been restored to my world. :-) The last two days have been somewhat insane, but I'm glad everything has returned to normal. Maybe I'll actually have some time to blog next week

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  As Ben wrote last month, he will be leaving MIT today to take up a ... you're reading this site right now, odds are Ben has touched your life ... it is today. His writing has entertained, informed, and inspired. And

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Online Decisions = YES Some great news.

  

  graduate). Your intended entry year (as designated in your MyMIT account) is ... ). What is the process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order ... you wish to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions.mit

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 6, 2006
• 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

  

  it may surprise you to know that even an institution as old as MIT has 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 / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  Stephanie Lin. Read on! <3, Hamsika --- My name is Stephanie, but ... senior year in Course 7 (which is awesome! Everyone should study biology ... jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  and how they can donate blood. “I am O-, and donating blood is the first ... say with confidence that this is a peaceful and loving city. When I ... fear when I walked home because the MIT police drove around campus

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  at MIT. Now obviously "preparation" is in some sense a range. You can ... is one thing that all students admitted to MIT have in common. And that is that we are confident they are prepared to succeed at MIT. Put

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is ... year we went fully "online" in our admissions reading process; that is ... .g., the admit rate is now 9.6% instead of 13%). This post will not be as

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Thong I Should Be Wearing [UPDATE] Sexy sexy undies.

  

  . --------------------------------------------------------------- wow, looks like we killed the MIT node...akamai is shuffling the ... the leaderboard earlier. This is right at the onset of MIT's attempt to ... Wait. . . what? Thongs? MIT? Together? Here's the story. Well

  • by Snively '11
  • November 1, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  to take 8.02. Everyone who works at MIT is expected to innovate, to ... I first saw the job posting, I checked out the MIT Admissions web site ... when he started dating Tina (also an MIT alum), who is now his wife

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10, whose first choice when applying to colleges was admittedly NOT MIT, but is quite possibly the funniest (and happiest) Baker biology genius I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  only printed and not uploaded anywhere online because the file size was ... that this is, indeed, the 2011 EA poster!) There were extensive PowerPoints full of of photos that look like they were used in MIT admissions

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  , you land that job, your project works and your research is published and you change your mind about yourself, again. success here is so hard to ... this. procrastination is like hard drugs–comforting, if only for the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  cool thing about MIT is that they understand this and that there are all ... 't just spew MIT propaganda), so blogging is a way to earn some extra money. 5) The MIT Museum The MIT Museum is located just down Mass Ave. in

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  .186). This is one of MIT's robotics competitions that I have never seen. Again ... director, David Layton, but also three members of the infamous MIT Blackjack ... applications yesterday to experience 5 fun events. First was the famous MIT Charm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  applicant, you think that MIT is “out of your league” because you looked at a ... facilities - but true passions are never “generic super reaches.” If MIT is one ... Like most MIT students, I was aware when I applied that I was a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014