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  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I noticed a funny question on the invitation and was so intrigued that I knew I had to attend. I put down "Jane Austen" for my favorite historical

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts on Removing the Long Essay from the Freshman Application So long, extraneous passages of florid prose.

  

  Brevity is wise. ...but I'm not the one being affected here. What are your thoughts?

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  . Installation runs November 11th to 17th Commissioned by the MIT Committee on ... I wrote a little while ago about a hack on the Dot raising awareness ... doing great on the climate change front. Here's another one by the same

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT ... chatting, Akash got a call on his mobile phone from another MIT '09, Anthony. Ben answered the phone and they chatted for a little while... On our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  how Ryan describes TOFU: TOFU is a project to explore new ways of ... awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing ... been invented over the last 20 years has been invented." (Reminder to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  that good stuff isn't handed to students on a silver platter, but for ... seat Kresge Auditorium on campus. Here on my blog, there has been a lot ... questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  welcome to the class is the Freshman Convocation, where the freshman class ... you like to see the Convocation? Check it out: MIT Tech TV We have ... New England 13% Mid-Atlantic 19% Southeast & PR 16% Midwest &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a quarantine haiku generator purell and poetics

  

  hello! hope everyone is doing well. I made a quarantine haiku generator: get yours here.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and started the fellowship on Wednesday. The city is lush, green, unfamiliar ... updating the CityLab article accordingly. I was forced not to look away. At

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  —for example, last week a group of FASAPers embarked on a trip to the American ... ducklings) to Harvard Express T’s. On this particular FASAP trip, we ... ominously thick package that included everything from housing lottery to

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  and even how to draw shiny things, there were also classes on sonnet ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  heard a barely audible groan from right over your left shoulder? Students ... , doesn't see the zombies as a threat, forcing hackers to help protect the ... convenient and easily accessible form of defense. Some are oblivious to the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  head of house really shines a light on what made Senior Haus something to ... Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the ... . '17, Sabrina M. '19, and Anna B.), which was officially closed to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  give me steady enough footage to not cause motion sickness. Whoops. The ... you try to speed up an already-wobbly video to 800%, it becomes a blurry rollercoaster of MIT scenery that is pretty unpleasant to watch. Even post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  ," he said. His latest attempt to help people through science lies on a ... 2010, I'd like to take an opportunity to thank the many awesome faculty ... at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works to make metal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms see Gloria's post

  

  https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/joint-post-a-guide-to-dorm-gyms/

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” see kidist's post :)

  

  https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/joint-post-welcoming-you-to-here-at-mit/

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  Hahn 1999) of hardcore text, I thought you'd like to look at some ... polo game against Iona. I mean, it's kind of hard to take pictures at 1 AM while you're marching all over campus. For the sake of brevity, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update

  

  lots of calls today, with many references to my blog. Below are the FAQs ... don't have to send in the midyear report? A. No, you must send in the ... late for extra materials to be reviewed in selection committee, any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  , due to an increased yield (the percentage of admitted students who decide to enroll) and a steady class size, we have admitted even fewer ... %. For those of you who will be checking your decisions online shortly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006