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  EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.

  

  “sent” to MIT, not “processed,” by the Nov. 1 ... . Slideroom portfolios need to be submitted by the November 1 deadline. Like ... , so I'm listing the most common questions we're getting below. I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 31, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  The other day I dropped off my application to the International Honors Program in the mailbox across from WILG. So begins my journey to ... program I am applying to is called “Cities in the 21st Century”, which looks

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely ... opportunity to preview the material, get study habits down and start college ... hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  way the trees look from my dorm room and exactly how long it takes me to ... material, either (it takes me 6.2 seconds to tie my shoes). I've got the ... while listening to Kelis under a sign labeled "THE YARD". I have all of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it ... don't know how to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get ... gets the least sleep -- WINS. By choice, I am not a participant in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  /astro major, you also get to do this: It has lightning bolts on the side and ... dot in the sky. By the time it was our turn it'd started getting dark ... * *creeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaak* And off it went. I tried really hard to get a picture of the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  out with The Angela Monster), but you also just might get the chance to ... Boston to New York, which means we had to get on the earliest possible bus ... are having at school. Or maybe it's a bucket, swinging by the handle

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... reason. The ~week after we got the notice to move out was... a lot. The ... ’d invited me to live with them somewhere on the east coast. I knew that not

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  freshmen get to explore the dorms, meet the upperclassmen and decide where ... there was about a 2-foot square hole in the wall. By getting a leg up from ... (since last year.) All of the furniture has been moved to the edges of the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  all the feeling there decided to concurrently take a few hours off to ... not to scream. It's not the drill - I have about as much tolerance for oral pain as the next guy - it's my active imagination that really gets

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... at 8 AM, and the morning was spent listening to medical and graduate ... by Dr. Roderic Ivan Pettigrew, the director of the National Institute

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  go, the better the view gets. You flew to Pittsburgh on two weeks ... better. You will get into the school that you were afraid to admit was your ... I write two letters to myself at [annotation note="the keen-eyed will

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  rat, the ring design and what happens at ring delivery, I'm going to ... here's to spoiling you with my riches: The Ultrium It's 100% ok to not be 100% prepared. Wave goodbye to the days of spelling lists and map

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  appropriate for the situation, like you wouldn't walk up to the CEO of GE and ... . 5. Do your homework! If you're going to an event sponsored by a ... you are going to be the "driver" or the "passenger." 9. Make a graceful

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  culture and traditions, it was an honor to be able to contribute to the ... a forward before the presentation was handed off to RingComm.   Raivo and I were the first to come up, giving a quick talk on the history

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones Sam is the funniest, though... BOTB and CPW Feedback.

  

  you can ask him. 4. We got to rock out to the Joneses: Ben Jones and Marilee Jones. Now I don't think you'd really get to have the chance to see ... Marilee Jones's singing voice when she sang to the students who had

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  melting spoon. I didn’t get the opportunity to use it very much. I made one ... talk about it on the blogs, but when I actually sit down to write it, I ... the people I’ve met on hall, learning how to skate down in the tunnels

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  -D, there are usually open spots by the first day of class, and you can go to ... /extracurricular activities, but I won't get most of the information necessary to make the best decision for me until I get to campus. The word on the street is that yes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  did this mean getting to spend some time in Europe but it also meant a ... everything was planned. This brings us to the present and why I've waited this ... excited to leave the country once more!

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  could get woken up by my babies. They were glad to see me. :-) * Today ... Paris or Nicky). Headed to Loomis Chaffee for a school visit. Didn't get ... Alison Burr, the GC at Loomis. I did my best to explain our selection

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005