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• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Skype and IRL interviews. It's a great way for us to reach more of you ... others. The interview is an opportunity for you to convey that, for us to ... /do at school. I try hard as an EC to be a strong advocate for each person

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  Before I got to MIT, I had never really made anything. I saw ... because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... brain because I've had no opportunity refused to create the opportunity to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  whenever they do, it's an opportunity for me to venture down to 1E and hang ... products that I feel the immediate need to have in my possession: Sanrio ... right now," Luca said when we went in earlier today for lunch. Grace and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on ... their own thing” and know that it's good for you to do the same. It’s the best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable and at home on

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Stress

  

  Two pieces that stressed out parents and students may want to check out... Boston Globe article: College applications add to holiday stress NPR Morning Edition story: College Admissions: What Not to Do (with MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  Beethoven to Mahler: 1800-1910 (SO excited for this) 21L.??? Old English (OLD ... you leave a post with your course history? I want to take every class ... 's a nice record of my transition from pre-med/brains to astronomy. More

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  Equations. It's too early to tell exactly how manageable this class will be ... for lecture to start so we all hushed and listened in. The idea behind ... . We begin by learning what makes a toy a toy, what makes the fun, how to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  product design, so thank you DPD for exposing me to my future career⚙️! I ... (RIP CME). Michael C. and I even travelled together to Tanzania for a safari ... drinking from a firehose, and more figuring out how to find inspiration

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  ’s only all-female dormitory. MIT women choose to live here for a variety of ... '10: Hi. I’m Minh. You can call me Minnie, or Minhsie, or any version ... entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  seconds ago and recognizing people I follow on Instagram only for them to ... , peculiarly, where I went to high school. For whatever reason, the inquiry of ... realize how strange this phenomenon is because it’s just oddly important to

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  triplets of numbers where the first two numbers add to the third L = {w ... have languages, we want to think about how, given a string, we would ... are problems where you might need to keep trying for an infinite amount

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  finally figured out how to open the trunk to look for the ice scraper Zipcar ... unhealthy. We decided to get the bare necessities for lunch sandwiches ... & Pepper [in case I decide to go totally wild and add extra flavoring

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  you can make your own for much cheaper. Toons Prior to MIT, I have never ... audition for Toons, one of the many acapella groups on campus. (To be honest ... Toscanini's run with some others and guessed how long it would take to run

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  there for anyone to listen to. I know I have Ben's band on my iPod. =P ... biggest was the general explosion of user-created on-line content. YouTube ... presidential campaign. I highly recommend this book to anyone- no matter where

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  trailer on YouTube (warning: it's PG-13 for about two seconds near the end ... students have quite a bit of respect for drama, music, poetry, and all the other "artsy" things you might not expect engineering students to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  here is a puppy for your trouble: If you just skipped directly to ... firefox to remember my password to login to the MIT blogs website. I ... very well, which is why I told Firefox to just remember it. It worked

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  ;p></p> <p>For some reason, people are often surprised to learn that MIT ... ;/impressively></p> <p>AND Now, Ladies And Gentlemen, For Your Viewing Pleasure ... Cloned, Unforgettable (No Matter How Hard You Try), Super Phat, Super Fly

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a ... , you want to make a choice that leads to the least regret. So, how else ... easy for me to recognize why I tend to overthink a lot - and it’s because

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  breaking off to become the new College of Computing, my how things have ... moved to a hotel. For the first year or two, A Entry folks [annotation ... .[/annotation]  Part of my motivation to run for Housecomm was to dilute that dominance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  send in a whole new version of my application? No. You do not need to ... over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your ... for other schools. You should still put the same energy and thought you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005