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  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  more interesting submissions were in response to short answer question #2 ... : "In a paragraph or two, describe to us a YouTube video, and why it is ... In My Tummy Korean Breakdancing to a Modern Remix of Canon in D by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  . In early January, I realized that even though I could return to and ... past 8 years in the Navy, I wanted to be closer to my family while I ... The fall transfer application deadline is coming up. I tried to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  bunch of it in the air. Yeah, that's it, there isn’t a conclusion to this ... . When initially thought of, this blog was going to be only a list of cute ... into a sprint, run from the student center with your lunch in hand to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  cliches, so take extra effort to remind yourself it’s true. In practice, it ... make decisions for you, even if they turn out to be good in the end. Do ... People change, and that includes you. You don’t have to live up to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  sister would feel pressure to find ways to comfort me and in so doing just ... and my friends to not say anything about it if I don't get in? That ... friends believe in me for reasons entirely unrelated to MIT. None of that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  've been up till 3 AM in the Hayden Library (an awesome place to study, by ... written in Python that rarely does what you want it to. For example, when ... So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and ... to finish my blog post drafts…) I head out of the Museum and go past ... students don't have enough holidays, so they added some to the academic

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  decided to shift the deadline in part to provide[annotation note="As well as ... renew themselves for all the work we have left to do in Regular Action. We ... developed some answers to the kinds of concerns that usually pop up in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  This blog is to all the '14's, '15s, '16s+ who are scared after watching the '13 college results this year. In one of my very first blogs on ... try to identify the MATCH in the people I meet here at MIT - it

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  Sorry to have been ignoring my poor blog, folks! Here's my excuse... Thursday 12/1: The day I'd set aside to catch up on email, blogging, work ... . The group we admit in the next few days is going to change civilization

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  Office to the Undergraduate Advising & Academic Programming (UAAP) office ... fewer questions about admission, we encourage you to start reading and asking questions at the Orientation blog mitorientation.org The Orientation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  Admissions, helping to run these very blogs with Petey while also working at ... how to listen, to sit in someone’s joy and pain, and to navigate the ... changed me in ways that I hope will only grow.  Before I got to MIT, I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging ... I skipped 4 days of school to go to Seattle and Vancouver to learn ... comic strip Doonesbury. Basically, back in 2006, the author of the strip

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  (a) they're pretty much the same person so their banter is fun to watch and (b) I can blog about it. (By the way - while I may write ... revealed.) So the three of us had lunch today. Allow me to share an example

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  self-doubt. In hindsight, it’s easy to recognize that they spoke out of ... . Check out JKim’s blog for tips on what to do while waiting. Speaking from ... motivated and diligent for even reading these blogs to find out more about MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  myself to the blogging interface and bang posts out in an act of self ... this mistake infinitely many times in the past, continues to do so now, and probably will be unable to avoid doing so in the future - I don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  excerpt from my personal blog from the day I came to college: "so i enter ... hope that I'm not in the room when they are put to use and I must commend ... myself calling everyone in my phone book to tell them i'm here and safe

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  admissions blogs is to humanize MIT. I hope that this video, in turn, humanizes ... treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in ... the tense scene. In slow motion, Tim waddles over to a table full of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  for not blogging in an eternity...) Back to Cena a las Seis, though ... Hidden from most of the hustle and bustle of classes and rushing to the next thing in life via the infinite corridor is the basement of the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an ... . Similar to my experience, you might end up living in a quad your freshman ... 's really hard to typify what it's like being here in a few short words or

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006