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  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  application has been posted. You can request a paper copy, download a PDF, or ... for fun.) "You can't make MIT love you if you don't [write a good essay] You can't put on your resume things that you don't [do] Here in 3

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for ... can give a more relevant introduction than I could at age 9. My name is ... 'm planning to go to graduate school, get my PhD, then hole myself up in a lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  college experience where they are as well. For those of you who did get in ... four years. Talk to as many people as you can. Get lost on the campus and ... cool relationship where sometimes we can argue and it's okay. So one day

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  ="course 6 (EECS) has a nice program that allows you to work towards your ... ’ve been trying to frolic in the Great Outdoors whenever I can.  I spent a ... ’ve been trying to get my butt outside if I’m feeling down. Even if I don

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a finite time horizon. Infinite games where the goal is to keep ... – here I lay a small piece of this rich tapestry! I see what you have done

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  abandon faith in health insurance and maybe even dentists. When you can ... what movie you watched in your house last night. And why were you ... begin with an M, MIT is the fourth-most popular one to get into (third if

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  Can you believe... it’s already the middle of August ??? ...and we ... guess my point is - all of you heading to MIT soon, GET EXCITED 'CAUSE ... classroom … etc. and 2) Open up! …I can think of a handful of situations where

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  that you can have a successful MIT career. Here are some wise words from ... and you'll have a faculty or staff advisor who can help guide you during ... the place for you, we thank you for letting us get to know you this year

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  their heads and say, 'Where did you get him from?'" M.I.T Coach Larry ... ;   M.I.T. Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix By BILL FINLEY   ... ., where he drew recruiting attention from Division II universities and a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  enjoy doing as often as you can i am glad that loving games has brought me to where i am now i hope that i will get to show other people how much ... ~~~ cut off all my hair moved to city where the sun is out every day

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  you can feel happy and supported, a place where there are others who ... all things you can get a feel for by just looking around during your ... with our check-in process, I get to see many of you who come to Cambridge

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  considerations, can get you the right answer. However, some definitely help more than others. If your work is getting frustrating, sometimes all you have ... , and see if you can tie your dreams to them. Do that, and then repeat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  MIT--you have to wait until you get into grad school before you can ... my major. Plus, you can't really beat the weather--I ran up what must ... DID YOU KNOW? The airport in Portland, Oregon has free wireless. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Back to Boston Recommended Orientation events

  

  Orientation-getting-to-know-you-ish WHEN: Thursday, August 31, sometime around ... ?) and can't wait to meet all the new '10s. For the past couple of weeks, I've been getting all sorts of rush/Orientation emails, so I am slightly aware

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Beaverheimer (Pi Day 2024) 3/14/24 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  .mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s where you’ve been able to ... you. In the meantime, you can watch [annotation note="which will take ... choices that you get to make!

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  can belong at MIT, so can you. I’m good at all of that! Over the years I ... for sharing inside jokes or figuring out where they were getting ... level of engagement you choose, MIT wants you. Hell, I want you so we can

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  hosed this IAP. "But it's IAP," you say, "How can you be hosed?" Well ... system control techniques. As you can see if you look closely, and know ... MASLab team keeps a journal. Ours lives here. You can check each day to see

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Guys Are Used To Getting No Sleep, But I Am Old To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling-related parenting advice…

  

  when I can find time. Hope you guys are having a great start to your summers. To those of you who have siblings: what's the one piece of sibling-related parenting advice you'd give to your own parents if you could go back in time

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  count. Each week I have three days blocked off where no people can squeeze ... . “You work harder in high school than college,” she said; she had, as a ... . “Objectively you have a limit,” I thought to myself. "Somewhere north of four

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP 2006

  

  advice you can get from alums in your major who have gone into different ... probably isn't reading this) is safe and getting by okay. We dropped my ... know they have no power. Uh oh. I fly back to Boston this weekend, where

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 3, 2006