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• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a ... activity. Do you think I'm overreacting to have found this a bit appalling? I ... in response to hearing a tiny fraction of his or her story. In the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  international students.   The Early Action season is shaping up to be a ... want to be a part of our community. They are attracted to the innovative ... to check up on the status of your application components. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  Bell "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on ... that you accept and move on with. Getting into college is a big deal, but ... high school as much as you can, a ton of stuff is going to happen in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  , and things look good, but we need a few more weeks to be sure. Due to ... I am excited to let you know that things are looking fairly good for releasing RA decisions online this year. I had a meeting with our tech peeps

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  to go be a writer! I'm going to write my essay right NOW!" So I went ... 't do that. It's like planning to bake a crisp and hoarding fruit months ... Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An American Idol Math Question You guys are all good in math; help me out with this one.

  

  's always going to be a tie. Voters just max out each contestant's phone lines ... see the numbers on Wednesday night, when Elliott got voted off? Each of ... it was a 3-way tie. Let's do the math, and please correct me if I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  classes, 7.05 Biochemistry. Class Details: Lecture: 3 times a week for 1.5 hours Recitation: Once a week for 1 hour Problem Sets: 8, not graded Exams ... pronounces what we know as H20 as "woodur." Too bad I don't have a sound

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

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  to be at all! Everyone works hard and studies, but they hang out, party, have fun...the people here are so down to earth. Everyone's got a nerdy side, and we embrace and accept that. Someone can tell a nerdy joke and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  funny story. It shows a human side of you that we'll relate to. Fun fact ... being witty and down-to-earth. I am never afraid of talking about my loves ... 's Wheel (which was actually challenging!), cooking classes, and a Walking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  celebrated the series a number of times in the way we celebrate: with hacks. Some were grand and spectacular, others subtle and fun. Here's a rundown ... 's Scar on the Dome July 16, 2005 On the morning that Harry Potter and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  I thought I'd take a tiny break to post a little something. I've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes ... I wrote a couple years ago (see below). As someone commented on Lydia

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  to visit me and we went to see a semifinal match of the Legg Mason ... , we got a little worried that we had wasted our money on a blow-out. But ... any guy won back-to-back US Open titles (Federer won last year, he

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night ... realized I didn't have to reminisce just yet, and pranced off to a machine ... the phone on my mortarboard's y-axis. Also, about fifteen bobby pins to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... of close, detailed listening to songs of our choice, and analyses on ... reverberation after 20-30ms, and it takes sound about 0.89ms to travel a foot, so

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  Of Lilly that MIT suddenly had a custom snapchat filter activated on ... who knows Lilly is going to do a longer interview of her with lots of ... answer:       I have been privileged to know and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  to admit fewer than 20 students. It is a difficult process: as usual ... applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent at 5 PM Eastern

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You’re Still Our No.1 :) less than 2 days left!

  

  !) --- While we are on the subject of speeches - for all to-be valedictorians, this is a great commencement speech. So is this one. --- So it's a week ... QUOTE(S): "If I have kids, I'm going to name the first one "Control

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 12, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Suite Life ~20 pictures, be careful (Updated Wed, 5/17/06)

  

  Cambridge edge (Cambredge?) of the Charles River. To the east of my dorm are some fraternities, and then Baker, former home of Matt '00. To our west ... -Drive-side entrance sunny view of the river I don't have a bike, but many dorm

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  Side note: Am I the only blogger who still uses a paper planner? Am I the only one in my programming class who takes notes on paper, not on a ... ??? Here's a video in which I attempt to eloquently answer questions that you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  experience for you today so that you can get a sense of what you may get to go ... average final grade of 17%) and am about to be thrown into another. Finals ... . How does one go about studying? The general recipe is to just lock

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008