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  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  my best. 7. Reading a fake issue of the Tech. Caltech decided to prank ... they get to the author. --- CPW has been by far one of the best ... time. (Which I loved, of course.) The people there are seriously the

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  music community or our arts community, consider sending in some of your ... College Board Code (for SAT and TOEFL) is 3514 and our ACT Code is 1858. If ... are you waiting for? Teachers get very busy this time of year, respect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write ... remember feeling like a failure a lot. I remember being in a state of shock

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that!) that reached the finals of the International Space Settlement Design Competition) - ( obviously an infintesimal of Prof. Schrock's research!) I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  Doc of the various deadlines and requirements for all of the ... recommenders. We will require two letters of recommendation: one from a math ... Test, ACT Plus Writing, or TOEFL; and 2 SAT Subject Tests: one in math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what ... should I take? A: You have the option to take the SAT, ACT, or TOEFL for your first test requirement. We recommend the TOEFL if you have been

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with ... what I would have done without you. This situation sucked for all of us ... one of your comments, and I can't answer every question right now, but

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  school. 23. I love taking pictures. 24. I enjoy girls who are fake. 25. I ... . 39. I'm afraid of dying. 40. I hate drama. 41. I am unconventionally ... . 47. I wish i could take control of my emotions. 48. I can't wait till

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  So, usually I stay away from College Confidential, as it has a way of making me despair of the state of humanity on the rare occasions that I do ... , just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  first name of disputed etymology, like most Roman first names, but thought ... should be bubbles. And I have bubbles. But after one whole week of no ... overshadow the fact that he truly needed help. So, I made some fake sourdough

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  like to call it) for all of high school, and we’ve been twins, well, our entire lives. Lots of people find it hard to tell us apart (and that ... new person together, they almost always asks us at least one of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  the TOEFL in lieu of the SATI (but must still submit 2 SATII's). We are ... you take the TOEFL, we will use that instead of the SATI ... ? My TOEFL, however, is very high (270 out of 300). Does it help?" Your

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  answer questions about the life of Manolo Blahnik and identify fake Louis ... this curious flyer outside of the Athena cluster in building 24 (aka "a ... television show. And believe me, my knowledge of reality television is pretty

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  always liked the idea of reality TV - capturing real moments with real people. But most "reality" TV is fake nowadays and so we want to do something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer an online degree?

  MIT doesn't offer online degrees, but we have world-class educational opportunities available to everyone online for free through our programs administered by MIT Open Learning.
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  Zev B. ‘08 thought they tasted fake, and prefers the sour versions of ... The berry of the West African Synsepalum dulcificum (miracle fruit ... .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in Greece with 19 other MIT students and a trio of professors from the MIT ... ;   better than the boston skyline from our side of the charles? you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  Lydia is a kind shepherd of the blogs who puts too much trust in my sense of judgement, and I have taken advantage of that trust. While I can ... and that one video of the goat singing Taylor Swift ever existed (I know

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  previous entry that a little over a week ago on 5th East we had one of our ... premise of Reawakening is that our hall has its own dark god, Krotus. Krotus ... reawakens - hence the name of the party. We help him reawaken by staging a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Are the Arts active on campus?

  More than 50 percent of incoming first-years have prior training in the arts, and more than half of all MIT undergrads enroll in arts courses each year—with nearly half of students participating in music and