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  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,020 students this year. Based on our ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. How many people are on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,000 students this year. Based on our ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. How many people are on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  A couple of days ago, I was working on an entry talking about all the ... during the first week of MIT's Independent Activities Period. On Monday ... I'm working on identifying the genetic basis of various tuberculosis

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science Straight from the scribbles in my notebook, a smattering of quotes, points and diagrams: "I ... dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Sweet Deal An offer I will not refuse.

  

  I just got this email, and I'm excited. Any recommendations on who ... Professor Virk teaches 10.301 and I hear he's a fan of Nelly. ------------------------------------------------------- Since you are a member of the MIT Class of 2007, You get to ask a

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  'll do an entry on MIT campus legends, if I can recognize enough of them ... wish on your card. I usually eat breakfast bought from one of the grocery/convenience stores on campus, lunch at one of the lunch dining halls, and, since my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of ... each have read this weekend, getting on the same page as far as what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally ... , and I hang a lot of stuff on my bedpost. There's also a lot of artwork ... , cory's desk/bed at right, caleb's bed at left On the right corner of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  we took a break. We sat on the side of the road, and I scanned the ... blobs on either side of its body. So he drew the rings on like ears. I'm currently working on collecting summer summaries from a bunch of French House

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  other ESP chapters after they went on to grad school. As of now, UChicago ... nutshell, if you take away the nights of tooling in deserted locales on MIT ... Sometimes, when life at MIT gets too tough, this is what I think of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  rest of my family) beginning with this: "Once I was walking on a ... another leaf, on the foot, two days ago. It wasn't a gentle smack, but it ... 's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  Physics major and. But on the bright side of the other hand, I spent 42 ... on. As per usual, I hunted with the Random Hall team and had one of ... blogging position for 1/38th of my life. Therefore, this post will be in 100

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  can be heard on tracks of Beck's Odelay album). And during the late 1800 ... Mefistofele, based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's version of the German Faust ... Half of my family hails from Northern Italy; specifically, the Veneto

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  the back).    On the other side of the Infinite Corridor ... under the Green Building, the tallest building on campus and all of ... -shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  feared that colleges would reject me on basis of senior fall grades alone ... spinning art family and consists of spinning two weighted objects on the ends ... and on. Poi has become a sort of meditation for me, where I can just let

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  you did on the first day of kindergarten was color. Heck, all we did on ... passed out of 18.01 with a 5 on the AP Calculus BC exam. My high school ... you have a 5 on AP Calculus BC exam, you can place out of 18.01 and take

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  in. This is one of the best parts of summer in my mind. Whether you actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... that I find left out for the taking on a table in lobby 10. Emperor of

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  . The early pool this year was very strong. On the topic of the strength ... While there's no delivery of post today, I can assure you that the good men & women of the United States Postal Service are even as I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  , Wednesday 23 April and has a picture of a knight on a horse. I was with another MITer at the time and neither of us knew what St. George's Day was ... entry on 23rd April but I'm in the middle of exams. Very stressful. More

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  top of a lounging student's head. A touch football game broke out on Kresge Oval. Meanwhile, on Briggs Field, the Varsity Baseball team was ... around campus. There were also a number of religious events on Saturday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005