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  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  As you've no doubt heard on email or from Ben's blog, we will, in ... .mit.edu on Saturday, March 18 at 12 noon, Eastern Standard Time. There's not ... password, because if you don't know it when you go to check on the 18th

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  : The Story of My Phone: At some point several weeks ago, the screen on ... Eventually, the Boston Rudolphs caught up with me, and I took them on a tour of ... . There were lots of Family Weekend events going on, housemaster brunches

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  the sake of learning itself, and the emphasis I was placing on the ... anything new. I bought the camera to celebrate the end of my dual degree ... Two days ago, I won a 35mm SLR on eBay! Now I have something I can

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  I hate New England. No really, I do. Ask anyone who's had the ... weather. Granted, the weather is not all that different in New Jersey ... much of this static electricity buildup nonsense that's been driving me

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  equal treatment for all our students. In the face of the new ban on ... on behalf of undocumented and international students, to reaffirm our ... banning the recruitment of transgender people to the military. While the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  say the L-word on this blog?), I won't deny that some small part of me ... I grew up in a house composed almost entirely of girls. Genetic odds to the contrary, I'm the only guy out of four children. That's right: I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  stereotypical MIT student may or may not be true, depending on whose version of ... fraction of non-Windows users. And so on, and so on. What really matters, though, is not the side of campus that your living group happens to be on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  Charles River on a spring morning. As I sit on the train from New York to ... got to see new parts of it like Brooklyn (including Coney Island, where ... couple of weeks, filled with editing medical school applications (first

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  of news we have two groups at MIT who are both working on robotic arm ... Interstellar Hello everyone, sorry for the three week delay on the latest list of things that are making me happy but there were these pesky exams

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  everyone here, and for the new class perhaps most of all. As I wrote that ... out into the world, the small ritual of slipping it on reminds me to be ... have led the way on some of the most important reforms to the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total ... results - not only in terms of the groundbreaking research and new ... Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  coming soon) into a new one in the heart of Boston. Unbeknownst to us ... giant glass door with a nonzero possibility of falling on you and ... fryer in one and it is fantastic. We then got to working on the rest of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  University, the kind of stuff they brag about on admissions tours. But then I ... monologue before, so that's not new. How do I move out of the comfort zone and ... evenings of the semester (overshadowing even the 6.00 midterm). I was on time

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  and I decided to try out some new recipes together -- both of us wanted to try new things, but neither of us felt like we would actually ... most-of-a-buttload of stuff then sits on my floor for the entire semester

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I ... internet wasn't my inability to write amusing new blog entries or chat on AIM ... not censored here on the blogs... I think naked pictures of Timur might

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  )). Instead of paying for MIT parking, though, I keep my car on the street. It ... 't all bad, however; I got to hop on my shiny new bicycle (thanks ... time on the new bike before the cold really sets in, I was moderately

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  We’re So Back a collage of preseason

  

  Opener!! We had our very first game of the season on our home field! I ... is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where ... for the fall season. This period of time is when the hyphenated word of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 2, 2024