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  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  form is required of all applicants and will be available on this page in ... some answers. On mitadmissions.org, it says the following about the ... Midyear Report will be available on your MyMIT account in February and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on ... tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... awkward writing. When these kinds of people pool together, though, it's like

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  alive in ten minutes? Mathura: probs not, hes in the line of happiness ... the first one of the fall semester. The five of us headed out to the ... a bajillion pictures - as per female i-must-take-pics-of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  almost died in Boston traffic. Note the lack of a shoe on Kim '09. Kim is ... can come on our Marching Tour of Campus during CPW. Tennis elbow. ... these things! One of the questions was "What is the more common name for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  that refreshing. For some reason, instead of giving proportionally less ... reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it due earlier. I am not a huge fan of this logic, as it ends up feeling

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  part of the week. "Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd..." MIT Musical ... where most of the action took place. Surgeon General's Warning: This musical is not for the weak stomached. It involves mild acts of cannibalism

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  . The fireworks on Fourth of July. The colors in and around the city ... Name:Jenny Rifken Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois High school: Larkin High

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  arrival of an admit letter. Finally, a little after 3pm on December 19, 2003 ... I can see from the comments that many of you are, quite ... of being an admissions officer, and I'm not sure if during that time I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Hacks

  Caltech, Bring IT on Just some harmless rivalry...

  

  From the Caltech homepage: Caltech Pranked by MIT Today MIT pulled one over on Caltech today. MIT students stole a 130-year-old, 1.7-ton cannon that has been on the Caltech campus since 1972. It now sits in a

  • by Bryan
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  Vermonsters at Ben & Jerry's on Newbery Street.  One of my main concerns ... extreme lack of sleep, but I met so many amazing people and did so many cool ... Program, which is one of MIT's many pre-orientation programs.  FUP focuses

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  (thank you, amma!), watching bits and pieces of "Family Ties" with my dad, sleeping a minimum of ten hours a night, and re-reading all my Harry Potter ... 'll be spending most of my summer days, chilling with centrifuges and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show Singing, dancing, juggling, and more!

  

  also a lot of other cool performances going on throughout the weekend ... 5:30pm) Kresge Auditorium Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill and the MIT ... voices, no instruments. Rockapella is probably one of the most famous

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  the Hyatt hotel where I got some one-on-one time with some of the ... hundreds of companies come and court hundreds of students. It's a time when ... people say is important. All of these skills are crucial when wooing the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  about the Hunt, one of my favorite events of the year. In short, Mystery ... lots of puzzles (which lead to more puzzles), with the ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. The only prize for the winning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  (Only in Texas can you legally drive 80mph on an Interstate highway ... Worth, Texas area, where I'll be spending all of IAP (and the summer) interning at the headquarters of North America's second-largest railroad, BNSF

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  , as long as they in some way have to do with MIT. If you're an '11, I ... , because I just thought of this and now I'm late for class. Anyway..) THE GREATEST DISAPPOINTMENT OF MY LIFE part two, which took place two days ago

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  blocks and periods of crushing inability to blag.   But of course ... absolutely nothing in particular. In one of my 7.013 lectures as a freshman ... start of class. It said something along the lines of “your true passion is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some ... timelapse component of the video kind of failed, too. It turns out that when ... rollercoaster of MIT scenery that is pretty unpleasant to watch. Even post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... goes like this: "An astronomer, a physicist, and a mathematician were on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  -sur-Mer, a small town on the western coast of France, near Nantes, with my lab ... you up on an offer of a free room in Paris!). [] Me on top of the towers of Notre Dame, acting like a gargoyle. [] Waltzing on the banks of

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007