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  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  With Campus Preview Weekend just a few weeks away (sign up here if ... if there is a party near you! Here is a little taste of some of the events scheduled this week. For a full, detailed list of events and

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  I Suppose It Was Inevitable That We Have An Office Instagram a list of some other places you can find the blogs (and the bloggers)

  

  Nearly five years ago I added a Facebook share button to the blogs ... , it's also strange to think I once had a full head of hair and wasn ... discussing starting an office Instagram, a few of the bloggers volunteered that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  kitchen, there is a "sacrificial table" - "sac tab" for short. Any item ... , but in the past I have acquired both a pair of jeans and a Snuggie ... y a une baguette de pain au canelle dans le frigo de boissons. (There

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 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 ... Spring Concert.  Every April, students bring a major musical act to campus for a huge concert. Going back half a century, the MIT Spring Concert

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  a HASS major) on campus, the Infinite Corridor is an 825-foot ... the entire length of MIT's main buildings.  And a few days a year, the ... hedges", which was a commonly used debate tactic in the 2012 United States

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  study...uhh (something in the media lab I don't understand), for a year ... . Now, I may decide to paint them a different color, speed them up, or ... . Actually, let's address that first. As you may already know, we have a

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  ://www.fontanka.ru/2012/07/04/070/ - it’s in English, which a bunch of the reporters ... , “Special report from Boston!” (where I’m a student ... the reporters pointed out to me that today was probably not a good day

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of ... who rock science!) 2 of the 8 New York Times Scholars A student who ... Georgia who spent five years restoring an ancient VW Bus A Junior Olympic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  A couple of noteworthy events took place yesterday: (1) I discovered ... Dunkins. ~and~ (5) I had a blast at Culture Show 2011 :) C-Show is an ... ). It brings together MIT students from a variety of races, backgrounds

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  socioeconomic diversity. 75% of MIT students graduated from public high schools, a ... a good deal higher than many state schools. Additionally, 15% of MIT ... have terrific gender diversity for a science and engineering school. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  3:30 on Patriot's Day Morning and rode off into a quiet, misty land ... before 6 am, and a huge crowd had already gathered. There were three tiers ... /ladder constructions, and those in the trees. Niki '09 and I grabbed a bench. She

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  were a Crayola crayon, I would totally be Dandelion- it’s clearly the ... they come one right after another. I happen to be a bit of a nerd. I ... to MIT entirely barefoot due to a massive blister, and have a tendency

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  Happy New Year! I hope you guys are having a great 2008 so far. Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a ... principle of enrolling a maximum of one third of our class in EA. Recent

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  already know, a little over a month ago, I decided to run for a seat in the ... Overture. The hackers' apparent leader delivers a short speech. "Remember ... vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  will lose your deposit at the other school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist offer) or decline it. The waitlist ... for a day before leaving for Albuquerque and I can tell you that it was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  decided to find out, while celebrating a 21st birthday. We had three stops ... July and boy, what a great concept. We had two chocolate fudge cupcakes ... mechanical engineering required for such a restaurant. They had this really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? This World Cup was the first time that a country ... -Montenegro split into separate countries a few weeks before the beginning of the ... , Kendall '07, and I got a picture in front of the very popular United States

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population ... . Despite the American reputation of not being a soccer-friendly country ... have to look forward to is a down market. According to this article, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  . The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off ... awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems to spend a lot of time with wordy disclaimers and pretentious claims

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about a topic ... . A new survey by her association found that among 39 states that ... 7 spent less than $1 million and 8 spent nothing. "For a nation, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005