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• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  -9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week ... form by May 1 (postmark date) if you intend to enroll at MIT. How much ... us know that you wish to be considered for a blogging position. As most

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow Day? No Way! I'm totally counting down the days until the spring equinox.

  

  As you may have seen from Shannon's blog, everyone at MIT woke up to a rather snowy view outside. Here's what my fraternity looked like ... pretty good by then. :)   Happy Anti-Snow Day!

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  getting serious and deciding what to keep.  It also means unearthing things ... a laundry loop and get them back and continue the cycle.  So when I ... have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  application processes as a way for me to simply learn more about myself and get ... ! ~ Hamsika p.s. It might be a while before I get to blog again; I'm not ... didn't get in: I have a story for you! And hopefully, it'll make you feel

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire ... kiss or sitting in silence outside of a movie theater on a date just to ... , which he proceeds to mail to her after doing a little Facebookesque

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I get a copy of MIT Facts?

  MIT Facts is a pocket-sized compendium of essential facts about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unfortunately, we don't mail the booklets, but you can find it online!
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  to be an admissions blogger read, Once, years ago, there was a Great ... day. Time and time again, a younger version of myself began to nod off over her equations, only to be jolted back awake by the heavy beat of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  's entries! I've decided to add to the CPW coverage by creating a CPW tumblr ... weekend, that'll be 500+ snapshots. Seems like a pretty cool way to live ... As you've likely read, Snively, Paul, and Bryan will be hosting a

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  LOLZ CATS In which he creates one of his own to explain his extended absence.

  

  'll get to your questions soon - although most of them are about missing materials, and Matt already did a great job of addressing that topic.) (Thanks to Christina for finding the picture for me.)

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  spend time in anther country. It’s difficult to justify spending a ... crammed in a semester’s worth of Spanish. It was by far the best language ... of cultural exposure. After class, we were free to get lunch at the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  Last Thursday, I went to “Food Truck 101: The Conference”, a 4-hour ... . To be honest, the food tastes a little too "healthy" for me, but plenty ... science department! We listened to presentations on "How to Invent Food on a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  As the name implies, this is going to be a tier ranking of all thirty ... semester to do so. But this is a great class. Honestly one of the hardest ... for a bit and spend three hours really dedicating yourself to a crochet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  Exhibit B. Exhibit B Then BAM!!!, like a kick to the face delivered by ... the workload. This is evidenced by our test subject, Jon, in Exhibit A: Exhibit A Jon is the one closest to you, sitting at his computer after

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  ? (By the way, here's a general rule to pronouncing MIT numbers: the ... listening to songs composed by Alexander Borodin. Borodin was a chemist by day and a musician by night who also happened to be good buddies with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... cannon, but with a firing range. In order to do that, though, we needed a ... tip was to build a compressed air potato cannon, so that we could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet ... is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT ... connect. Crafting a class is similar - we go into painstaking detail to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  rejections don't seem to fit a pattern -- one person was accepted at School A ... at School A and School B, you can be pretty well assured you'll get an ... accepted to the MIT biology grad program. Just today, I was talking with a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some Measurement and Instrumentation. Basically, this is a lab class where we learn ... have a 40 page paper to write, but such is life. The class is also an

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  sadness - because we were not able to offer a spot to SO MANY wonderful people. This seems to be the case every year. You'd think I'd get used to ... letters and packages to be mailed. I'll keep you posted. Decisions will

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  student, take classes, and just get a feel of what it means to be an MIT ... 'm working on getting a better camera so apologies  ahed of time)"   I ... ,” and then proceeded to do so….   When I came to MIT as a super

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015