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  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  Last night, we went to a carnival that was sponsored by the ... in time to try and knock down a fat cat. It's really hard to throw ... and Gabe put on velcro suits and then thrust themselves onto a large

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment ... understand who you are - in context. Remember, we don't get a chance to meet ... talk a lot about FIT & MATCH. Think of your application as you would

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... to declare Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) as a major and possibly minor in Course 17 (Political Science). Now, that said, let me tell you a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... keep my sleep statistics in a set of Excel files. Every morning when I ... was always like this as a child, although MIT has exacerbated my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most ... have some waitlist admits. Whether you stay on the list or not is a ... make sure that you have a place to enroll next year other than MIT in

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  after a day of reviewing applications to MITE2S. As an admissions officer, I enjoy working to provide a group of young people with educational ... admitted to MIT -- both programs admit only a small number of students, while

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  against other students! MIT has a really cool Wall Street-style trading ... -of-the-art trading room ever built on a university campus. Identical in every detail to ... the world of high finance; it will also serve as a powerful platform for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  seat Kresge Auditorium on campus. Here on my blog, there has been a lot ... to be a "good match" for MIT? What do we look for? Alignment with MIT ... articulate MIT's mission for the next 50 years (this is a topic for another

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  may not have heard, the Class of 1997 is throwing a "e^2" Reunion to ... style by throwing a "get out of the cold" party in South Beach the weekend ... (where n is a counting number), we also occasionally have transcendental

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  received a decision by Wednesday. On Friday, we'll begin giving decisions ... 't set any target for that number. We won't have a final count of regular ... ultimate target for admits is this year. A few notes, for the record: Your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  last semester in [annotation note="a product development capstone class ... after a few years at MIT! I've become one of two co-leads on Contour, and ... working with this team; every time we have a deadline, I feel at once that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  , but as of recent it feels more like a chore. Every week that passes by ... 'm really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a ... there's such a spark and pep in my voice when I write, a passion and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  I wore my tennis shoes and a baseball hat for the trip. We hopped on ... caught on fire and flipped over a couple of times but we didn't have any ... that either we'd found a wormhole and ended up on the other side of the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  simple to travel on train or ? from Logan to MIT?" We'll be running a bus ... outside of the times we're running the shuttle, you can take a taxi (~$25), or the subway ($1.25). The subway trip can be a little confusing for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  a show that's composed of dances choreographed and performed solely by ... and from 12-6 on the weekends. a dance is assigned to each hour slot, so ... of practice each day. it's a lot! Mocha Show in 2020 was one of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My Blogger App, five years later i've finally dyed my hair blue

  

  note="i like to think of myself as a Real Adult"]Real Real Adults ... what I had written and photos I submitted, both so you can get a sense of ... . It has nothing to do with geography. In such a large city, I had always

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 16, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  The briefest context for who I am: Hello, I am Jonathan, a sophomore ... fortunate to have a somewhat interesting story to tell. Read ahead ... Station, to take a Concord Coach Line bus across state boundaries to Salem

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  a fidget toy for me at this point -- as well as baking banana bread ... fifth"]sixth graders[/annotation] at my elementary school would do a flash ... start blaring from the speakers and suddenly there was a dance number

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  could be. There are weeks when you tally up your work, the hours in a day ... this place feels fraught, all of us one or two days from a deadline ... makerspace I just got access to, IDC, where there’s an embroidery machine and a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  At MIT Admissions, our mission is to recruit, select, and enroll a diverse and talented group of students who are a good match for MIT's unique ... otherwise demonstrate their readiness for MIT. We believe a requirement is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022