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  The Number Game A few words of advice before applying to college.

  

  at more than just the numbers. Now I took N AP classes, got X on my SAT ... PhD programs, you're going to be doing research and so being prepared ... . It's important to realize that it's not just about what the scores and

  • by Bryan
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or ... "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  Waited until midnight so I could post on the 11th officially (EST, anyway) - we'll be mailing in less than 24 hours. Wow. For me this is a ... emotional about it - overwhelmed for the admits and devastated for the denied

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  -retentiveness, c) dislike of hard labor, and d) all of the above. If I could wave my ... playing Gamecube and/or discussing the political leanings of Jesus at 4 AM, we can shut the door. (Re: the political leanings of Jesus, Mark '07

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  tomorrow and you can fail to solve them for yourself (just like I did on all ... 're Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?" As promised, I headed over to the MIT ... the #7 and #10 seeds in the tournament missed the first five integrals

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  effect- Now you might be wondering... what the heck is The Equalizer ... toy. The sketch model on the left was our works-like model which tested how our toy would physically work. The sketch model on the right was our

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  documents and such on the blogs the last few weeks. Things like: " ... can rip through the toughest DHL envelopes with one bite. But they ... 's just in the mail pyramid. (See below - Tim is working on it right

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  graduation where all the seniors stay on campus and do fun events"]senior week ... in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course, ever since I moved in. And in the last few weeks my mind had been

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  too much time on the projects simply because I'm so invested in it and I ... our relationship to ecology, agriculture, and the land we live on. Our ... like Wild Relatives and The Gleaners and I. The class is centered on an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  might also add that the two bearded admissions officers, Ben and Stu, were paired on the same subcommittee today. In other news, while we were in ... nation to take the step of fusing molecular and cellular bioscience with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn ... that they're worthy of MIT, and prove to themselves that they can handle ... scene. I knew, the instant I saw it, that the stress and pressure of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  inspired, I mean really inspired, I sit on my bed and close my eyes. I let my ... advice are the lens through which I view opportunity and my future.   ... what, Mom?” I asked. “That the sky is the limit. That you can do anything

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  7 I've been studying pretty much non-stop. The final is on Monday ... , just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in ... , photograph dome from afar to share on blog. YAY! They put a BUMP on the dome

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  's the deal, I will be available until 11 PM EST (3 hours from now), just as long as the telethon lasts, to answer questions in the comments, and ... for the evening, because MIT is calling YOU! That's right, tonight is

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  when performing on stage and even easier to forget that the audience is ... the "Build Your Own Pizza" app on the Domino's website to order pizza for all the teams. MIT Natya is one of several dance teams on campus; I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  final. And that's all from me. Sleep! Finally! Well, two hours on the ... , on my way to the Student Lounge off the Infinite, I saw that this hack ... No. Really. Finals week starts tomorrow, and my 8.01 final is in ten

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yet Another MIT 2010? Alex Doonesbury needs to choose a college.

  

  aren't made this way?). For the next week, you can vote on Alex ... In the comic Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau, the character Alex Doonesbury is still deciding on colleges: RPI, Cornell, or MIT? Now, her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  will be gone within four years, and that the ones coming in will be okay ... . And the students also figure that they're going to be gone in a few ... Marjorie, will be leaving for South Asia at the end of this school year

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  hometown, and has much to tell you about the virtues of serif fonts in this day and age. Boheng C. ‘28 from California, who has biked all the way from campus to beaches and shipyards, and liveblogged from the depths of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  , and the most famous alto soloist, Charlie Parker, wasn't on the list. I ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and ... back and looked at the stars, listening to the cars hiss by underneath

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009