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  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to welcome them to ... offer admission today, we have placed a modest number on our waitlist and ... comments on this blog post to concentrate conversation in the open threads

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  and hopped on a train back so we could switch to Amtrak (Map below ... Thrones and 2. somehow managing to traverse what feels like a tundra of a ... forehead has known since you were a child in addition to the freezing weather

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  maaaaybe I exaggerated some of those things. After all, this is based on a ... break, I decided to visit some of my Stanford friends and spend a day in ... talking to the students, however, a strange feeling of familiarity emerged

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... Emeritus Mollie posted this helpful and interesting post to a discussion board recently; it is such a good start to answering your question that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  a message, loud and clear, that we don't need to rely on dishonest ... confirmation e-mail with a link inside; click on that link to return to Change ... " category. – Click on "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia' to

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  sent my very first email to dormspam, a mailing list that reaches most of the undergrad population, making myself vulnerable to starting a flame ... dream: to make a hopscotch down Vassar St, or the Simfinite. Anyways, here

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  for everyone to participate in a substantial debate. But the focus on ... wake of a wave of European colonization: hang on to the customs that have ... my time on weekday nights has been dedicated to studying scientific

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  definitely worth a read (and worth watching), but I wanted to highlight ... serious. I jumped off the couch, threw on my running shoes and took to the ... missing for me, though, was physical fitness. At some point, and almost on a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  about 18.022; I'd like to elaborate a little on my experiences in that ... a great lecturer, with the unfortunate ability to write faster on a ... to be clear: on the first exam, the average was a 60, so a 65 was a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  How To Avoid Sounding Stupid* *All advice should be taken with a ... understanding the concept on the first try. Don’t ask the person sitting next to you to clarify what’s on the board; they’ll ridicule you for poor eye

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  we needed to go pick up, so on top of having a lot of responsibility ... myself, traveled over to Hanscom Air Force Base (about a 30 minute drive ... to be comfortable with in future years. On Tuesdays from 3:10-5:10 pm

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  opporunity to see War of the Worlds for free--a premium discount on the already ... This was a great day. Take my word for it. What, do you want me to prove it to you? Aww, here goes. Today I ate a grape lollipop that Save

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a ... convinced that we'd have to admit at least a few from the waitlist. I was wrong. To those of you who were on the waitlist, particularly those of

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle @NatGeo, pls hire me

  

  During my trip to Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa I spent two days on a Game Reserve. We stayed on the very top of a hill in Hluhluwe , sleeping ... reserve at sunrise and sunset to experience the animals in their natural

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  ! Hopefully you'll be able to join us for Campus Preview Weekend. When I was a prefrosh, I couldn't make it to CPW, but I visited on my own about a month ... to pick a song to introduce and play live on the air. I think that is

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is ... . Expectations are higher at MIT. You are expected to do a lot on your own. If you ... ;   This is a really good question, because it forced me to think and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  . I walk to Kendall, get on the red line, smile at a cute dog on the ... a twenty-minute shower, and go back to my room, pick out my clothes ... for my MISTI (watch this space for deets on this!) and I’m there to get

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... wanted to go to college, and I had a few ideas of where I wanted to apply ... class, you were guaranteed admission to a state school, so I figured

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  with 5 significant figures, and the professor did not manage to include a ... , I turned the page, and went on, shuddering in a rising tide of despair ... approaches infinity. Someday, I plan to teach a literature class that has a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  Introduction to the Institute and serves a first introduction (or second, after CPW) to all the different dorms. Each dorm makes a short video ... around the dorm yelling a lot set to loud music, but when we were elected i

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010