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• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  ). Basically I wanted to get the most fun out of my stay per unit time. Hey, from ... this one picture to describe the majority of my CPW experience. Yes, one ... enough time to say hello to each of the colored balls in Simmon's (ex

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  Three months ago, I informed MIT admissions of my firm intent to ... world is full of mysteries. To end this inconclusive tale of my brief and ... a vicious cycle of spinach and apple salad, thanks to my inability to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  . The School of Engineering will be renamed the School of Imagineering and the campus will move to Orlando, according to hackers who altered the MIT homepage. Hey, anything's better than trying to work in an Athena

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  conversations. It was amazing to see the range of topics that people talk about ... schools may be the smartest applicants of all" http ... importance of attending the "famous schools." This one features our Dean of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  a week's worth to follow. At the conclusion of this series, I plan to ... 've collected from across the web (via newsfeeds) about members of the Class of 2010 (if there was a newspaper article about you, feel free to send a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Koch Institute?

  -faceted group of investigators is at the core of the Koch Institute’s mission to ... Institute (NCI) designated Cancer Center, is a state-of-the-art cancer research facility as well as the hub of cancer research on the MIT campus
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT recruit athletes?

  MIT is one of the top Division III athletic programs in the country. MIT is always looking for students-athletes. Almost 20 percent of ... interested in playing varsity sports at MIT, you should contact the coach of
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the MIT motto?

  MIT's motto, mens et manus, translates from Latin to mind and hand. This motto reflects the educational ideals of MIT's founders who were promoting, above all, education for practical application.
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  ="Think of a mix of Audrey’s angsty vibes mixed with Cami’s willingness to call ... . Which means, all I can do is trust myself and do what I can to the best of ... Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  through so far. I began to wonder what kinds of questions they would ask ... !) and went with my mom and dad to the gathering on the Saturday of my ... forward to doing it again for the MIT Club of NNJ's other events

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  job, I am frequently asked to tell various chapters of my life story ... , Our Lady of the Hamptons. I then made the big leap to the public high ... family to go to college, and being from a town that sent few of its

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  .600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to ... left except to speedrun most of my second major in one semester. Maybe if ... . I want to drop a couple extra classes out of spite, mostly because

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  mystical fog of technological magic and innovation. I still decided to come ... intensity. I wanted to address some of the fears and concerns I struggled ... I had attempted to be (for lack of a better cliche) jack of all trades

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  to the cozy warmth and twinkling lights of Boston's snow-covered brick ... inside the house to keep them alive. The swish of our overalls as we moved ... relief of the wood stove, where we'd hang our soggy snow pants to dry

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  eventually dragged myself out of bed to “strike” aka clean up the theater, take ... able to make it to the 2 pm showing of The Vagina Monologues.    ... amount of homework to do. i have a weird and unhealthy tendency to keep

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world, and to the decades of MIT students he taught in Mechanical Engineering ... not only the curriculum of his iconic MIT engineering course 2.007 to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  the beginning of the universe (read:Big Bang). In doing so they hope to ... that instead of being so proud to be the first person to comment, you ... bills, don’t make weekend plans, don’t even finish applying to MIT, there

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Remember the Fourth Another reason why I'm happy I chose MIT over Stanford.

  

  . Basically, the book is about a bunch of strangers coming together to live in ... series of puzzles for the heirs to solve. At the end of the book, after ... My most vivid recollection of a July 4 celebration came from a book

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  (I tried to place myself into the mindset of a war reporter, covering ... floor to try to gain entry from above but all of a sudden the door opened ... Oh hai world! Welcome to my very first official MIT blog entry

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  passions of chocolate" card from the nearby gift shop and took it to Jonathan ... DID YOU KNOW? After failing to acquire MIT no less than 3 times in ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006