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  Transfer Decisions to be Released Today

  

  MIT Transfer applicants will receive their decisions today! All applicants will be emailed their decisions at 5 pm. Eastern Time to the email address specified on the application. This year…

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • May 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3

  

  Hidden Treasures At MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam Every Wednesday night the Cantab Lounge hosts an Open Mic followed by a Featured Poet and wrapping up the night with a…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  At MIT, I’ve taught for two Splashes, three Sparks, and two HSSPs. My classes have evolved with my interests: Spark (Spring 2011): Rockets and Composites (how rockets are designed and built) Splash (Fall…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I’m taking Advanced Essay Workshop with him, and I’ve never cared about a class this much. This week, to my…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  Tomorrow is May 1, otherwise known as the Common Reply Date. This is the day by which admitted students need to let colleges know their enrollment decision. If you’re still…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread awareness about the amphibian extinction crisis. When I was in high school I used to spend this…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in technical terms, a really dope* concert with Macklemore and Ra Ra Riot. *note that the MIT Admissions…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Getting Back to Normal ...with some help from Macklemore

  

  It has been a rough couple of weeks in Boston and at MIT.  Wednesday’s memorial service for Officer Collier has helped us to heal.  And tonight, we’ll take another step…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  Police officers from across the country as well as other mourners turned out by the thousands today for a memorial service to honor fallen MIT officer Sean Collier. Law enforcement…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  It’s hard to wrap my head around the chain of events that unfolded within the last couple of hours. As emails flooded my inbox around 10:45 last night warning me…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  It has been a tragic week here. On Monday, the Boston Marathon was bombed. Among the dead was 8-year old Martin Richard. Among the injured were Eric and Ann Whaley.…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  Hi everyone, The short version is this: please give anything you can to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the bombing and are both…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  I wrote a blog post about how excited I was for CPW last week.  Other posts include the ones by Lydia K. ’14 and Anna H. ’14.  One thing that…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  This was supposed to be a happy post. It was supposed to be one of those after-CPW posts, celebrating three straight days of liquid nitrogen ice cream, Tetris hacks, and…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT’s Tribute to Boston Lights from the Green Building.

  

  I’ll let these pictures speak for themselves, but I thought this was a lovely gesture and wanted to immortalize it on the blogs. Much love to everyone affected by today’s…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Fantasy Feast Fantasy foods and costumed friends.

  

  Yesterday evening Random Hall residents prepared a CPW fantasy feast. Below are some of my beautiful costumed friends and some of the food they prepared, photographed by the amazing YQ…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  (Looking for a CPW Post? Read Rachel’s! Looking for retreat opportunities freshman year? Proceed) At least 1 out of 16 student bloggers agree: everyone should travel* at least once a…

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  Freshly minted prefrosh! Three years ago I was in your comparatively less soggy shoes, battling a CPW-long downpour over and under rooftops without my future dark green double-canopy umbrella. I…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I live in Boston are preparing to enjoy the marathon on this coming Monday but first we are…

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

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  My family is here! Yesterday and today, my parents and my little sister Lisa sat in on my classes – they got a crash course on galaxy classification (my dad…

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013