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Blog / Admissions QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars Quynh, I thought I would be going to my state school (University of by Beatriz Valdez April 2, 2013
Blog / About Decisions FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first. , 2013. Next, be sure to enroll in a college/university by May 1. You by Matt McGann '00 March 15, 2013
Blog / Events Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study finals. I guess this is the universe's way of helping me keep my discipline. by Anna H. '14 December 10, 2012
Blog / MIT Life Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate -down triangle. Alan Guth, father of a theory describing the early universe and my by Anna H. '14 December 5, 2012
Blog / MIT Life MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium. universality. According to Anonymous Fourth Guy, "young people are terrified of by Anna H. '14 November 29, 2012
Blog / About Decisions Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist. , 2012. Next, be sure to enroll in a college/university by May 1. You by Matt McGann '00 March 15, 2012
Blog / About Decisions In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine be admitted to that particular university at that particular time. In by Chris Peterson SM '13 October 20, 2011
Blog / Academics & Research 19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :( at the University of Washington. We (well, some of us) played Settlers by Anna H. '14 August 19, 2011
Blog / Admissions Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place? information released by the admissions office of almost any other university by Chris Peterson SM '13 July 11, 2011
Blog / Art, Literature, Music DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new… Future Group, MIT Media Lab) Libretto by Robert Pinsky (Boston University by ARTalk March 17, 2011
Blog / Athletics Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead cheers (Tufts University's "T-U-X-C!" tends to stand out because they have by Maggie L. '12 November 14, 2010
Blog / Academics & Research Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student. fundamental particle of his universe is sugar. 4.Lowercase Greek letters all by Yan Z. '12 February 15, 2010
Blog / IAP Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or… at Hong Kong University for the fall semester and then travel across by Shannon M. '12 January 15, 2010
Blog / Admissions Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers. . While much of this advice is universal, YMMV with other schools for the by Matt McGann '00 September 24, 2009
Blog / Art, Literature, Music How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art. [by Sadie Scheffer '10] College? It's about classes and professors and shirts and ties! What am I not prepared for? Nowadays, most high school students will be leaving home to go to a university knowing little by ARTalk April 1, 2009
Blog / Art, Literature, Music Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you. UROP. We are drafting submissions to the United Nation's Universal by Chris S. '11 March 11, 2009
Blog / Academics & Research Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday lecturer is universally recognized for never sitting down, among other by Yan Z. '12 December 6, 2008
Blog / Academics & Research Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT. CARE; and helped strengthen ties with the University of Zambia (UNZA by Paul B. '11 October 15, 2008