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• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  So I'm currently at NACAC in New Orleans. I'll post more about the ... months, in the hope of generating some kind of useful conversation here in the blog comments. The MIT Admissions site was one of the first higher

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  , given that we're so busy during the school year giving presentations and reading/evaluating applications, the summer is the primary time during the ... to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  For next year's prospective applicants: This week, I'm out on the ... , parents, and guidance counselors in the Mid-Atlantic states. Currently, I ... Philadelphia. On our way to the venue, we saw a rainbow (just a single rainbow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  about a week, and as far as I can tell the city hasn’t been transformed ... backwards-looking of my own. Kim has a collection of old Techniques (the MIT yearbook), and flipping through the pages from as far back at 1918, it was

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pulse 2011 [by Nathan Kipniss '14] A lot of talent under one roof!

  

  Heritage, Our Heart,” an event that explores Black culture through the ... Culture and watch performers from all over the Boston Area. Some of the ... clean photo for obvious reasons, but the movement adds its own artistic

  • by ARTalk
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  magazine site that I visit daily called "The Root". The article was a feature of 25 African American students under the age of 21 who are making extraordinary contributions in a variety of areas. When I was skimming through the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snowpeople & a hammershark more post-blizzard sights around campus --

  

  A couple days after the blizzard, I walked around campus and took some quick shots of all the snowpeople-and-other-things in sight. They're all pretty cute, but the hammershark is definitely my favorite. c

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 15, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the firehouse across the street) and a call from our team captain saying that the boathouse was locked, so practice was cancelled. The day is turning into the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Admitted A forum.

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2015! Good job! Go ahead and introduce yourselves :)

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  One of the things I truly love about MIT is that you never know when ... waiting in line for some iced tea this morning the two architecture students ... modular design, scalability and the potential and weaknesses of

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started ... homemade Jedi costumes for Halloween our junior year. Wes once shot the guy in the face with an arrow. (That's not really relevant to the fact that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  This is probably one of the last things I was expecting to see when I went to my window to investigate the staggeringly loud noise I heard ... out the best way to talk about icelandic volcanoes, Switzerland, Germany

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT goes APE. Not your average Sunday night.

  

  exciting event at MIT last weekend. The Chinese Students Club (CSC) hosted ... , performances, and festive spirits – but the highlight came at the end. You see ... East Movement (FM) to MIT’s Walker Memorial – you know, the same place I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  the physics test which I took the day after my last post, and then ... class called the "Nuts and Bolts of Engineering" in case I, y'know, decide ... the rather long list of things I did - rather, watched - instead of

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted A forum

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the class of 2014! Go ahead and introduce yourselves.

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  GOOD LUCK Everything happens for a reason.

  

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  • by Celena C. '12
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  deploying Ten Red Weather Balloons all across the country. $40,000 goes to the first team to locate all of them, by any means necessary. The balloons ... alumnae, prefrosh, and current students all across the country, who better

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  the campus before. I quickly realized it was all I had hoped for and ... England about the same time so I was able to show them almost immediately why I loved it so much here. CPW has been designed with the students in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  (I'm gonna go ahead and spill the beans: This is an entry about IAP. IAP is another name of the month of January. Some people may be quick to point out that we are in the month of Feburary. These are the kinds of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009