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  College Fair! v2.0

  

  manning the booths and answering questions that prefrosh have. Think of it as a live version of the MIT blogs. I'm working the MIT booth tonight ... Hello everybody! I'm still alive, I promise, just not at the computer

  • by Snively '11
  • March 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  bumped me out of the running. This year, however, I applied and after about a week of waiting the finalists were announced. With five times as ... one of the top twenty finalists! Before I make my pitch I'd like to

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt begins tomorrow A fun puzzle to solve.

  

  The annual Mystery Hunt (history here) begins tomorrow at 12:17pm in MIT's Lobby 7. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post here one of last year's most clever puzzles (this was just one of 114

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  experience" of his life. BREAKING NEWS: A video about MIT's "Sex and the ... Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) 2005 with Laura Stuart (head of the class and ... Stay tuned for an entry on the phenomenal Handel scholar Professor

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  .C., the Greek mathematician Archimedes supposedly defended the city of ... Each Wednesday, The Weekly Dig (my favorite rag) hits the newsstands. It's generally a mixture of pop culture and local political coverage

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  I will continue with the series of photo entries -- they take some ... I'm spending some time at MIT seeing friends. I've been on the east coast for about a week seeing family and will be gone for the next week as

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  —  should think about the process of preparing to apply to MIT. Since that time, it's remained one of the most widely read and shared posts on the ... , had thought enough of the post that she had translated it into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  was actually in the middle of giving a tour of Random to a friend when I ... the dorm! This year, since Random turned 13, Ilani, a resident of the ... As many of you know, Random Hall has come to represent much more than

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs

  

  a lot of juggling schedules and hard work, but I'm really loving both of the projects I'm involved with. :) ... 's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), so I decided to add my voice to the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Candyland @ MIT Not your average gingerbread houses!

  

  My dorm’s study break tonight consisted of a Gingerbread House Making ... teams of Baker House residents built architectural masterpieces in only an hour. Though they were given the option to build anything they wanted

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  puzzled again? a little puzzle for the class of '09

  

  So this week, each day of Orientation, the students have been getting a group of scavenger hunt questions to solve, and today they get to ... this one easy. How many entries to date? Please do not post the answer

  • by Bryan
  • September 2, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I request a fee waiver?

  international applicants, and you can request one in the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver will not have any negative impact on your chances of
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  diseased and dead while others think it implies the existence of a predator ... nonhuman features. The nonhuman movement of an android and its human ... part 2 of using my art powers for chaos. So how do you give someone the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now ... . Because of the competitiveness of our pool, we have already informed 2 ... deep breath, shake it off, and go crush the rest of your college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the i ... from :P one of the best things about CPW is meeting you all who come from diverse corners of the world and seeing how much energy and talent you bring

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  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 ... the home of my boss-to-be while he and his family are vacationing. I had

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my ... " to the end of it. "But it's black beans and rice flambé, Mom!" didn ... I can call Sicilia's and order pizza? (What?! It's the staple of the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  of the technical aspects of blogging are maintained and taken care of ... the files. Easy. Step two, change all the internal links on all of my ... . Internal links changed, easy. Step three, delete all of the pictures out of

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Off Campus A story told by cat gifs

  

  think I'm special, in a way. The kind of way where life threw a lot of ... -and-a-half room apartment on the northern tip of Cambridge, not too far from MIT ... Last year, I made a HUGE decision. I decided to move off of MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  quote into an outline of a shape. That is probably the worst explanation ... until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high ... felt about my MIT application, and here's the post I wrote for decision

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015