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• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango ... Castle (one of 13 Indian restaurants within a mile of MIT, according to ... up on chores, etc. It was nice to have a day at home, though I used the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  year. It's another strong applicant class. The reading of domestic (US ... action) for the MIT Class of 2009! Selection committee will continue for about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Normalville

  

  Fellowship Of The Duck Cookie Monster Dogs Playing Poker An Ax to Grind ... to start solving the puzzles...   We had a wall full of unsolved puzzles to work through.   Of course, we also solved many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2005
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it ... . Because school systems vary outside of the U.S. and many international ... /principal to leave spaces blank on the form. Please ask your counselor
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  died on the surface of the red planet in the time we have been posting ... It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... say that: the blogs actually turned twenty on August 6th, 2024. But as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  beach to watch the sunset on. 20 minutes of driving later, we arrived at ... suggested that we spice up our orders by asking for four of what the person in the car in front of us ordered. while passing the menu, we noticed a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  the commonness of gun violence in america. we talked. ed bertschinger ... , classmates, students of color. we talked about being white, and we talked about ... frustration and our feelings of inarticulation and confusion and powerlessness

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ... friends again and thoroughly enjoy IAP. But another part of me is mourning ... friends remain here for another couple of weeks. That, and my family will be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  , faculty, and members of the Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and ... We were all saddened by the news of Marilee Jones' resignation. In ... felt. The message of "being" vs. "doing," quality over quantity, and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  these lines on top of each other:Notice that when we read the colors of ... reversed on the right. There’s also the same number of swaps, and they both ... directly opposite each other, on the surface of the zonotope. We can count

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  that I had already spent the right amount of time working on it. Since I ... . There is already a bunch of great advice on this blog, but with the ... ’re on. At this point in the application cycle, most of what you’ve done

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... thing I knew, half of my shirts had blue stains on the collar. I ... , being unable to make good on all of the dreams I had chosen for myself. I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  / admissions wiki today. Amita Gupta, a freshman member of the inaugural Tech ... awesome, so go read it! Secondly: Some of you may have read my blog post ... immediately after my accident was all about trying to figure out the physics of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  have it, "the day" came on August 13th of 2010, and now that same (not as ... wonderful font, if one of you readers or eager beavers already done with the ... staying awake while on the road, so he would stop at the Wellesley MA rest

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  this photo of the sun rising over Llanganuco Valley in Peru. On Wednesday, after the hour by the Charles, I sat on the floor of my room with two ... (article) to complement this post On Wednesday, I went to classes, graded

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  First of all, friends don't let friends do 5.12 on video. Especially not while friends are on vacation in Maine and only get the chance to ... 40 minutes late. It's kind of disconcerting to wake up on a bus in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  're looking for? I remember reading a comment last year on one of the blogs ... I hear Early Action decisions went out. Congrats to those of you who got in. If you got deferred, don't take it too hard, plenty of people

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  clearly predicated on the responses of all the other competitors and is luck ... . This gave me a final score of 220. Based on their point allocations, MIT ... most people would probably rely on data. MIT's calculation of 90% of the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  , Quackity, and others. I also am a huge fan of OfflineTV and had my eye on ... Back in October of 2022, I flew from Boston to LA and drove two hours ... 'm a huge fan of streamed content and consume a lot of it! Games, IRL

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  ideas on campus. 28 years later, the competition has helped start some of ... flying cars. Many of the startups have gone on to join incubators like ... working on stuff for the MIT 100K Competition. I started helping out with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016