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  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  A few hours ago we finished processing the final segment of tens of thousands of documents which came to us by mail and fax. We digitized them and ... should show up in MyMIT. A few moments ago, we emailed everyone who applied

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  here instead of studying for the TWO exams I have on Tuesday. This way ... to have the best year of your life and then just say "But I waited too long too tell you, and now it's too late to apply." So, for your

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  the size of half a penny. Once you see this and determined that most of ... a condensed "sauce" at the bottom of the skillet. Remove the chicken ... portion of the sauce and add water or just boil/stir-fry the vegetables

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project ... ? Now that I'm here, and I have an entire set of shelves dedicated to skeins of yarn and unfinished crochet projects, I can say that I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  and move into one of 12 official MIT dorms. Once you arrive, you will be ... can't do it all here at MIT. So take advantage of opportunities that ... of the Charles River versus a trip to New Hampshire to try indoor

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  (Harmony and Counterpoint I) 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming) 8 ... had enough of the structure of the class and ditched it. That's ok ... 've never done proof-based math before, plus all of the open and closed sets

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... [by Vicky Thomas '12] Like most of you reading this, I stalk these ... follow-up stalking (I like to think of this as "scanning for comments by my

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  from my freshman year. It was early December, 2011: the flame wars of dining-discuss@ were still fresh in the minds of undergraduates[1], yolo ... the foundation of MIT's online education efforts, was still a couple

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  of its signs, like this one: Most room signs have numerals set in ... :[/annotation] That's not the only instance of Helvetica here. On the lower-right corner of the fire extinguisher box, we see an all-caps "FIRE EXTINGUISHER

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters, 12 syllables, and a state name that I am still completely incapable of spelling. Luckily for the sake of our collective sanity, however the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  in a pinch. If you'd rather go outside, the snow offers oodles of ... plenty of not-for-credit offerings that usually amount to single sessions ... some of my friends from warmer climes, you may consider scarcely one

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  'm applying the "enjoy the power and beauty of your youth" concept and ... locations at MIT? For those of you just joining me, you might be wondering ... much entirely of pictures of me standing in front of various European

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  lol). This blog post is about my journey into the art of glass ... ), because its pretty difficult to make anything out of glass if you don’t know how to obtain any glass. The furnace is kept at around 2,000 degrees

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  and that vibrational degree of freedom, and I was not going to be told ... DID YOU KNOW? Mary Tyler Moore sent a signed copy of the single ... . It's about that time of season when MIT students buckle down, chain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  exhilarating. Let's look back at the two aspects of MIT and see how they applied ... When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  , because I had finally moved on from the stage of denial and accepted their ... since I had run out of milk. Still yet, the ink in my pens was decomposing ... was a joke. The following series of images is a visual journey through

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  science fiction! They have over 90% of ALL SCI-FI PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH ... members of the former convene together to celebrate a 10M concentration of ... , food, a showcase of student organizations, food, sample lectures, food

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  , except that he vastly underrates both Galaxy Quest (one of the best movies ever! Alan Rickman!) and Army of Darkness (Bruce Campbell always deserves better than two stars). Now, Roger Ebert didn't like "War of the Worlds

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005