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  Making A Splash on July 4: The Celebration in Photos July 4th - A Photo Essay

  

  names, and in the true spirit of MIT, a friend said: Friend: If I had a ... all about the BBQ and fun with friends. I took in the action from Baker ... the day. And also, for more on July 4, check out Matt's Blog. Videos

  • by Bryan
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  this time we had a thing where the students who write for us, and also students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could write only in words besides the words that most people in this place use

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  of the things that I appreciate about my MIT experience thus far is ... over campus and begin to gain a better understanding of who the people were that I went to school with. That year, with the announcement of the

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  planning ahead of time, which I respect and value (maybe the most ... . Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words ... fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better the lives of others

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration – Important! If you're planning to attend CPW, please read this entry whether you've already registered or…

  

  to a few students who didn't register using one of the recommended ... registered for CPW: the deadline is TODAY! Please log into your MyMIT account and fill out the CPW registration form asap. If you don't have a My

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  machine of the working world stops. If you're waiting for a meeting to be ... , it's Sunday. :-) It will be fun to spend the summer at MIT. Summer housing is available to basically any continuing undergrad -- the cost is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick update

  

  I guess the folks who staff the phones in MIT Admissions received lots of calls today, with many references to my blog. Below are the FAQs. Q. If selection is over, can I have my decision? A. The selection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  talk about the history of computing. He was inspired by Marco Tempest ... watching (Marco visited class in February to give a talk about the use of technology in magic). Colin ‘16 re-created the trick in the opening scene of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  ; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a ... jelly beans that resembled the colors of their logo...and no it was not Mc

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  is by no means the end. Many MIT students have been deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, and here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Do I have to submit a math/science recommendation with my QB application?

  MIT strongly recommends a letter of recommendation from both a math ... Bridge applications without a humanities/social sciences/language teacher letter of ... letter of recommendation, we strongly recommend asking one of your math or
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  and then left a UROP, I worked all summer, I won a medal at Head of the ... did it. My grades aren't in yet, but I think I did it. At the start of ... and generous to my friends. I think that's my greatest mistake of the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for magnification. It’s cool because we can change the magnification continuously, which is impossible with glass. At Open Sauce, the maker expo in San

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  Are you up for something? Writing a bunch of[annotation note='the mit ... misti. turns out, miguel is thinking of misti also for the summer ... -help quotes go... "failure is not the opposite of success—it's part of success

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  about the requirements of 21E, and were inspired to make a diagram, sine 21E can be confusing. So, here it is, filled out with the classes we've taken to meet the req's! Legend GIR = General Institute Requirements

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…

  

  & science summer programs for high school juniors to consider. All of the ... Since my earlier post on MIT's summer programs was linked from the MIT homepage today, I've been getting lots of traffic interested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yet Another MIT 2010? Alex Doonesbury needs to choose a college.

  

  In the comic Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau, the character Alex ... aren't made this way?). For the next week, you can vote on Alex's college choice at the Doonesbury Strawpoll. Interestingly, two recent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A few quick answers The skinny.

  

  . What's up with the international selection? We're still reviewing international applications, in parallel to the selection of domestic applicants ... 'll mail all regular action decisions together at the same time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Everybody’s Reading Applications!

  

  It's definitely the busiest time of the year for application reading (hence the low post count this week... luckily Mitra has a couple new ... reading application files today at the Diesel Cafe, I realized that a woman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2005