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• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  applications." Emily at Olin:"For those of your checking your status pages every ... admissions bloggers at some other great schools have been blogging this same topic (patience with the mail) this week. Here's a sampling: Daniel at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  was only successful at keeping my piercings a secret for about two weeks ... again to get a jewelry replacement for my helix piercing. The people at ... would need to place an order and wait a few weeks for it to arrive. At

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  about.  Free t-shirts seem to be for everything at MIT; classes ... a member of the rowing team, I have had the same locker at the Pierce Boathouse for the past four years.  And this means that clothes just piled up

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Cheat Sheet This amazed me when I first saw it.

  

  Mystery Hunt is a yearly tradition at MIT, but this isn't an entry about Mystery Hunt. This is an entry about one of the tools our team has for Mystery Hunt. We rarely used it, but the sheer amount of information

  • by Snively '11
  • August 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Being First is Important There can be many firsts

  

  Sometimes you should stop to identify all of the different pictures in an entry. We work hard to find pictures for you guys, and then we ... casually glance at the first letters. You know, just in the spirit of things. : )

  • by Snively '11
  • May 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  So...the past few weeks have been CPW central for me - working on ... shameless plug for the event I'm running! You all should definitely come to ... , April 18, 2009 6:00-7:30pm (Doors open at 5:30pm) Kresge Auditorium Link

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  18.02 grading shopping at the Garment District for my Halloween ... UROP investigating the genetics of tuberculosis at the Broad Institute ... Independent Activities Period! Only two months away! picking my classes for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Citius, Altius, Mens et Manus In the words of a great woman, "Yay, a hack!"

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The United States won 9 gold medals in the most recent Winter Olympics in Torino. ..and many thanks to Joe '06 for showing up with this photograph at 6:30 in the AM. Bigger? Even bigger

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  .) Friday seems so long ago that I barely remember it at all. I know for a ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... , and they're awesomely helpful. (Yes, awesomely is a word. At least, it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What programs does MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) offer?

  MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) runs outreach programs under the School of Engineering at MIT for underrepresented and underserved students interested in science, technology, engineering
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How do I contact a current student?

  MIT doesn't provide names or contact information for current students. To learn more about MIT from a student's perspective, please spend time on our site learning about academics and life at MIT. Through our
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  this spring, i am doing a study abroad semester at Imperial College London. what this means is that i have been away from MIT for a little over ... for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  at his feet, there are reeds in the form of the Roman numerals for 24 ... Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And ... 2007 Brass Rat, and Matt has written briefly about the Brass Rats for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  family got 2 new Maltese puppers!); at a ski resort in Salt Lake City for a weekend, Seattle to visit friends, twice to Colorado Springs for training, Detroit for a competition, Chicago to visit my cousin at residency, and NYC

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  up for preferred dining at a cost of $300 per semester, which simply ... compulsion to eat at dining halls for almost every meal (if not every meal ... unaffected, although they would be permitted to pay for individual meals at the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT = The American Dream As usual...we procrastinate like mad before finals.

  

  My 5.60 Final is tomorrow at 9:00. In just about 18 hours, I will be DONE with my seventh semester at MIT! (I am currently trying to study for it but it's not working very well >____< But it's ok. Judging

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  , never having time for something more as mundane as a class lecture. At ... , something I never had time for at MIT. We are excited to meet you! At ... CPW 2014 was the reason I chose MIT. At the time, the Institute wasn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  for the past few months. First, for some students, there are early ... complete. And finally, there's the scrambling to apply for scholarships. Scholarships are nice. They provide you money for college (offsetting your Self

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  for EA decisions: yes, they're still scheduled for Wednesday 12/16 at 9 ... This is going to be an interesting week. For early action applicants, decisions will be posted. For regular action applicants, the deadline is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  Houston. For the next two weeks, all I did was read at Barnes and Noble (I ... . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month ... work for a month with an MIT alumnus at a company that matches their

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013