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Blog / About Decisions
Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.
've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we had room to admit students ... , our plan and hope is to admit students from the wait list. This year -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.
place to watch the fireworks in my next entry." Without further ado... 1. From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT ... Couchamaran. The Couchamaran is just what it sounds like -- a sofa on pontoons -
Blog / MIT Life
Got Questions? I have answers.
where to spend the next four years of your life. It's a huge decision, and ... Hey guys - sorry for not blogging in so long! I've been up to all ... heating up as we race towards finals, I'll do my best to blog about all -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures
kisses on the right cheek when greeting and leaving a room and learned to ... the people I’ve met on my trip have been so welcoming and eager to both ... , encircled by the Andes mountains’ snow-capped peaks on one side and the vast -
Blog / People & Identities
[guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26
Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would ... : palm trees, iguanas, piña coladas. To me, they were nothing but pathetic ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture -
Blog / Residential Life
All the 2025 i3 videos megapost
-year students typically consult the MIT Guide to Residences while they fill out their housing survey and choose where to live on campus. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are -
Blog / Uncategorized
Public Art And one fantastic sandwich
woman on a crane directed workmen on the ground while pointing out how to ... campus to the clover food truck to satisfy a craving for their famous soy BLT on whole wheat, I passed by numerous workmen unloading flatbeds of -
Blog / Miscellaneous
my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars
a formality on the way to making something common knowledge. I choose ... I famously have perfect taste, and with little to do over the summer, I'm left to just sit around and ponder endlessly, refining my taste -
Blog / Uncategorized
Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso
what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can ... week has been a wild ride. To quantify it: Five hours of sleep per night, on average Four birthdays on my dorm hall (one of them was mine -
Blog / Admissions
CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.
For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a ... of you who attended CPW -- it was great to meet you! Here are the ... , but worth watching! Click To Play The CPW Festival The Festival -
Blog / MIT Life
Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…
On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... , 11 have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. MIT Economics -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
SpringFest 2014! Just a quick post about the 2014 SpringFest Concert featuring Capital Cities and Flosstradamus!
Scavenger Hunt, and they were really awesome! I got to test out my new camera ... the first three songs, I had some down time to go around and see some friends! There were about 9 EMTs roaming around that I got to hang out with -
Blog / Miscellaneous
From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.
Some random links I've been accumulating: The New York Times asks ... ] An MIT researcher has developed a technique to deblur shaky camera photos. Say hello to the newest blogger, Jessica Kim '10 (a.k.a. JKim, or -
Blog / Academics & Research
Punting
trying to stay on the boat, trying to find the bottom with my stick, and ... Punting is a really relaxing and nice way to spend the afternoon if ... tomorrow. The really great thing about coming to Cambridge is that we’ -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!
generally...I decided to try and work on people who were somewhat iconic and ... South America, but she managed to squeeze in some time for an interview for us! Listen to the full interview here: I hoped you enjoyed me -
Blog / Admissions
11,231 Applications
(this number will probably change slightly by the time we get to selection ... applications this year, both record highs. It is shaping up to be an extremely ... applicants I've already seen, I am disappointed to know that we won't be able -
Blog / Residential Life
meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators
of Simmons, so he’s constantly on the run. The first time I tried to ... him to arrive. He breaks down on a regular basis, much like MIT students ... Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1
4.500, Intro to Design Computing, my favorite class this semester, is ... involved using CAD software to design 2d and 3d objects, and then laser ... had to use CAD to trace an existing symbol or logo, analyze the pros and -
Blog / Academics & Research
You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.
, physically, intellectually, and emotionally reacting to the three weeks I spent in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the rural village where we were supposed to stay and perform water testing for