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• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  I almost forgot: for you regular action folks, the deadline to ... about this time for early action for things you might want to be doing right now, and also my post about interviewing. You may be interested to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  noting on a blog read by students aspiring to study at a school fascinated by numbers and puzzles. When I think about palindromes, I think about ... of a week-and-a-half of them, running from 9/10/19 to 9/19/19. While

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing pandemic, our ... /ACT, or who can find a forthcoming opportunity to do so safely are encouraged to submit their scores with the understanding that they [annotation

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  our financial aid budget by more than 10%, adding resources to help ... decisions, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a few thoughts, and to thank ... : about jobs, about your ability to pay for college, and more generally

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  really motivated to get a lot of stuff done. But then Christmas came. And ... more panic once I get back to Cambridge. Oh wells… I mean, I’ ... to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of ... well. We want to see that students are involved in things because they
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  student pays respect to the history of African Americans in New York by, um ... th left much to be desired. I will elaborate on the details of “much” once I finish therapy. *Recently, someone I was talking to managed to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  House community,” and I felt that discrepancy did well to set the tone for ... about this in public channels by residents, alumni, friends of the Haus ... e-mailed her too, as they did to every parent of a Senior House

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  other "artsy" things you might not expect engineering students to be ... groups on campus, specializing in everything from improv comedy to jazz music to ballroom dance. I bring this up because, last weekend, a friend

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  temperature to drink by mixing hot water with ice. Memory, who couldn ... Once upon an IAP, there were 5 externs* who were lucky enough to be selected to work at a magical company called 5 Wits Productions, where many

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  Jersey, which is very close to home. Planning for summer 2011, I knew I ... , I have friends going to India, Japan, China, France, and Spain. As for me, I’ll be going to Beijing, China. I’ve been looking at MISTI

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  long before you want to punch someone, and learned that snow is, despite ... ! Beyond these valuable life lessons, I've also been lucky enough to take a ... " and the second, "The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans" (ranked by INC

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  , em-dashes and alliteration. Why? There is a good argument to be made ... powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make ... destructive because of the force behind it. (If it were, by Newton’s Third Law

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  guys, if you get into MIT there's a high likelihood that you'll get to ... polite and everybody gets along alright. You may not be used to having to ... Every so often I am begged to write a blog entry about a specific

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  supposed to get 15 gallons of ice cream on Thursday morning that never showed ... and let everything defrost, but some of you were lucky enough to get ... week and it was blissful to get away from MIT and have some fun in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  how to render shoulders, which it gradually learned to compensate for by ... consumed by pset hell, so I shall leave this as an exercise to the reader ... forwarded to me:  i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  sweat* I know you are counting down (consciously or unconsciously) to the hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer on Wednesday or do things to distract yourself from your computer. I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to practice saying goodbye to Pass-No Record and start embracing real grades (ABC’s) for the 2nd semester. I'm going to grade my IAP. The following

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could ... different. From 1/15 to 1/31, the people who write here may write only using ... write. This is harder than you might think, as was learned by a man who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it ... vague desire to go to classes and do work. but i don't actually want to. i wake up and i'm already tired. i no longer know if i want to go to my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021