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• Blog / Athletics

  Dirty Little Secret? Free concerts rock my socks.

  

  So I began this entry on Sunday night, but am just getting around to ... teams all raced (note remember to post results).   Now crew is a ... really start learning when you get to MIT. I have a few friends who row

  • by Bryan
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Normalville

  

  Luther King Day, every IAP. A bit before noon, a large crowd began to ... to start solving the puzzles...   We had a wall full of ... Normalville kept the team up-to-date on our progress.   You might be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  equipment to detect and do studies on extrasolar systems. A lot of extrasolar ... binaries to indicate the existence of a binary star system. So, when one ... UROPers hung up their lab coats to head home, Shaye and two other undergrads

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  a place on the waitlist. But it just isn't ethical to keep that many ... to consider accepting a waitlist offer) or decline it. The waitlist ... is too early to know. In a week or two, we'll once again look at where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  . Techiya, on the other hand, sings a variety of music, from slow liturgies to ... ’re a freshman on pass/no record, I say go for it. It’s good to ... ’s the third). All I knew was I wanted to be in an a capella group

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  ... A petrified log! Because I'm too lazy to explain what it is. On ... giving you a large, apologetic explanation which would do nothing to redeem ... break. But - I ended up passing all of my classes, went on an IAP trip to

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  zeitgeist. Things tended to be greener than usual, we ranked our moods on a ... th also happened to be one of the British film nights put on by a ... many calls that I ended up making a spreadsheet to rank all the hold

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  dimension, I refer to the number of independent directions on your space. The ... can only see a short distance away). This isn't to say that flat ... some extent, make sense. A perhaps less controversial way to understand

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer Decisions to be Released Today

  

  , we had to decline admission to a great many outstanding students. We ... applicants will be emailed their decisions at 5 pm. Eastern Time to the email address specified on the application. This year (as all years) the process

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • May 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  into the wilderness on your own, but after a few rides, you start to get ... to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I ... – – “Most likely to cause you to stub your toe on an unevenly paved sidewalk

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  MIT students have a lot on their plate, and are very willing to give you ... around the concepts, and I struggled to come out of the class with an A. On ... messing around with a cool edX course on computer graphics and hope to learn

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  inspiring that I got the inclination to write a whole entry on them. So, if ... had to comment on Schrock, even though I was already scooped in ... might have been a little imposing to have Schrock as a professor, since

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  dress up like a Viking and light things on fire") but also how they ... on. You can think of essay questions as instruments which elicit a response which we then evaluate, akin to the soft rubber hammer which a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  additional MIT QuestBridge Supplement. You do not need to fill out a first ... to be reflected on your Applicant Status page (located in the MIT ... science teachers to write one for you. If you are selected as a Quest
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  (Written while on a Boeing 737 somewhere between Seattle, WA and Sacramento, CA) I left Boston on Wednesday last week to head for the West ... until I figure out to upload them to the blog :-( On Saturday (yesterday

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  on trying to do a single thing: the work that I was assigned. Summer ... later on in my high school It seemed to me a little cruel How the right ... due on Thursday and so was ready to take a breather and relax. But then

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  jetsetting i saw a flying pig.

  

  first ever flight cancellation. Basically, I was waiting to make a ... phone came back to life, I had a message from the friend who was going to ... hope. The next morning I managed to get a flight out, and I was off to

  • by Bryan
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  the mountains with their shadows. I'm sitting on the porch of a ... bottle. I was working on a longer blog post, a winding, comprehensive ... best to get a noncompliant five-year-old ready for school. Not easy, even

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  . There is already a bunch of great advice on this blog, but with the ... procrastinate until the last minute. Doing this gives your brain a chance to ... the drawing board. Even if a story or experience is compelling on its

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  holidays. Over the last few days, we've been trying to catch up on all the ... email and phone calls. On Monday, I finally returned a call I had been ... ! Rats, foiled again! I also hope to catch up on blog questions as soon as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005