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• Blog / Admissions

  Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.

  

  the rest of the admissions team. Not my favorite part of the job (I'm not the biggest fan of paper cuts) but it's rewarding in that it provides a bit of closure to an important part of the admissions cycle. It

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  . Rockapella is probably one of the most famous examples of a cappella.) Kim ... in our undergrad days). These are, of course, just a sampling of the ... Jamboree, All A Cappella Extravaganza, and the 7th Annual Battle of the Bands

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  Tell the truth, how many current MIT students read the title of this ... Baker (one of our dorms), was uploaded to the internet. The instant ... admissions website. The link has been sent to a couple of dorm lists and is

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Literature Tea & Mural Contest Artwork on cookies and walls.

  

  talked with Teesa '08 (Course 8: Physics) about Kiss of the Spider Woman ... Exchange. Professor Henderson taught us the proper pronounciation of the ... do you think? = ? This reminded me of the Student Mural Project at

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  the above sentence of a college essay that thankfully never made it into ... travesty of a sentence last year.  I still make lame over-the-top metaphors ... over the past few months, you know that there's been a lot of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A quick plug

  

  date, they've made a lot of updates to the timeline, and to the writeups for some of the hacks, since the last time I went to the site. Well done, folks! For the curious, there are other sources of information about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  million feelings unseen. Of those, here are some: (1) Pride - The last time ... , unbelievably, my last week here in Germany. On the last day of teaching in Berlin ... can only bridge a bit of the distance! Many of the kids we've taught are

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of ... will melt, whereas in Burlington it never does, so towards the end of the ... composite history of the year's blizzards. In New Hampshire, up in the White

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee waiver directly. If the cost of the CSS Profile poses financial difficulty
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  that the MIT Admissions Office does not endorse the use of dope.  Unless ... Lewis!  The star showing of the night, and the reason why this Spring ... mean the memories of the seniors I was talking to.  Since I'm a freshman

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  the release of the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series ... time around, but on the morning of July 16, 2005 -- when the sixth book ... Harry's lightning bolt scar on the Great Dome. On Confessions of an Aca

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

    livestream of the graduation ceremonies     Today occasions the 151st Commencement of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the next few hours of pomp, circumstance, and Tim Cook, 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  simultaneously trying to be kind to the institution that gives me the privilege of ... immensely this spring. More so than past semesters, not only because of the pandemic, but because of the way MIT administration has handled this pandemic

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon ... building block of the simple nanoscale world. Nanowires can be used as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  ... and arrive at one of my favorites -- I mean, just look at the pattern on ... , you obey the sign of "No Access" and turn as indicated. (Yes, there ... this room lies another room with "Keep Out" inscribed on the face of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is Math fun at MIT?

  A lot of our students select math as their field of interest when applying to MIT—which is no surprise, since our math department is one of the ... 's Mathematics Department represents a broad spectrum of fields ranging from the
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way ... cannot stomach steep drops so I had close my eyes for most of them, but the ... . Venant's. She rocked 2.007 .) So yes, we did analyze the motion of the

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in ... on the harsh overhead lights of an interrogation room, illuminating a ... the tense scene. In slow motion, Tim waddles over to a table full of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ‘Twas the night before Christmas Happy holidays to everyone!

  

  traditional decorating of the tree. Just a few miles from my house is the ... The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with dozens of McGanns in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the ... the center to the edges of the bed, taking wrinkles and dirt with them ... the folds. A cloud of tiny creatures coated the sheets and blankets in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013