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  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  While I was busily at work on your Campus Preview Weekend (April 7-10, register today on MyMIT!), I came across this article on the MIT Athletics ... , theater, and, yes, sports. MIT is a member of NCAA Division I in Crew

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  ), which I attended two summers ago. The transcendental number reunions are ... .5 million gallon pool). "O" was one of the most fantastic things I have ever seen -- if you're in Las Vegas, don't miss it. I was lucky enough to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking ... Admissions (and taking off the tie that I wore today!). In a nutshell, here ... them. We do selection in subcommittees, usually of three people -- I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  things people are doing over the summer--you're interested in me, because I ... was! Nonetheless, it is done. Looking back to last summer, everything I questioned about coming into MIT is absolutely not all what I should have been

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  conference at MIT. One of the events was a student panel, and I got to ... , Year, Major, Place of Birth, Dorm Hi! I’m Yuliya, a senior majoring in ... in Course 9 - Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I was born in Donetsk

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  confusing mess of “Where do I start? How do I start? When will I have time to start?” I’ve been through it. It doesn’t have to be a hair pulling mess, because in the end, food is great. I like food, you like food. So let’s get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  I should probably start out with this: oh hey, guys, I’m living in ... , I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is the ChemE building), I actually have time to shop at Trader Joe’s at

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  i'm on the hip-hop dance team Mocha Moves. every February, we put on ... my friends came to the show to cheer me on, and i was absolutely ecstatic to show them the results of how hard i'd worked over IAP. we weren

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  Every now and then I get a cool email from the outside world. Here ... I asked in a rambly 10-minute-long video tour of my MacGregor single ... to a video you posted last year about your room.  I can offer you some

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... things more confusing, I have hidden some real words used by [annotation ... studying-people that might be hard for you to find if I did not say them. You

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  do! Angela ‘24, Karthik ‘22, Emily ‘22, and I spent who knows how many ... making here.  I dragged Angela into talking about this year’s video ... Audrey came up with something good. Audrey: lmao i don't remember if that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  , not new: as I blogged last year in the wake of Hurricane Michael ... they are all interrelated. More on that in a minute. I am writing this ... (and all other) difficult time. I want to elaborate my point above

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  haven't completely decided. I shouldn't give you more things to read as a pretext for further procrastination...but I will. Here are some blog posts ... I've met, emailed, Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  , Boston Common, Public Garden etc. I travel Downtown almost every week: to ... four I attended last year. I’ll keep you updated for more Boston activities this summer (and let me know what I missed in the comments below

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  did. I doubted each one of my essays. Re-wrote drafts. Edited the main ... confident. Use the active voice. Avoid “I think” and “I believe.” Don’t try to ... ." Use the personal pronoun "I" with caution. I know that's hard. I also

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  three different aliases in the blogosphere) and I prepared a modest ... ’d caught herself in a pre-college Alaskan life), and I stumbled through the ... played video games, and I attempted to work. Upon opening my eyes the next

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  my approach to MIT (more on that later), I've finally figured out my classes for junior fall. One of the classes I'm in this semester is 6 ... . Actually, I didn't expect it to be this great at all. Even though I loved

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  on Monday, January 6. However, I know that those of you who were ... ’s see if I can answer some of the most common questions we get every year. For Deferred Students I was deferred. I will never get in RA, right

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  Facebook group: I know I've been *admitted* to MIT, but I don't know if I am ... * because i feel pretty much the same way... 0.o ... I keep reading about these national scholars and competition people and I'm just a guy from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012