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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  on that later. On Saturday morning, I was helping out with the Math ... top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country ... . Which brings me to why I was riding through Central Square on my bike on

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures

  

  I'm not living on campus for the summer, but I have a lot of things to do on campus (tours, glassblowing, UROP meetings, seeing friends), so I've been walking to and from campus nearly every day. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • June 17, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  out those fields on the application. This is important so that your ... , depending on the purpose. For example, Student Financial Services will use your legal name and the Office of the First Year may use your preferred
• Blog / About Decisions

  BREAKING NEWS! Find out about your life of pi

  

  up on the banks of the Charles River. It seems that famed tiger ... on Thursday, March 14, beginning at 6:28 PM ET.  When decisions

  • by Richard Parker
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Update The Waitlist Committee has finalized decisions and has emailed all waitlisted applicants.

  

  waitlisted applicants. A brief overview: Of the 629 students currently on the waitlist, the committee has chosen to admit 35, to keep 64 on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yet Another MIT 2010? Alex Doonesbury needs to choose a college.

  

  Doonesbury is still deciding on colleges: RPI, Cornell, or MIT? Now, her ... aren't made this way?). For the next week, you can vote on Alex ... band." So even if MIT "wins," she might not be MIT Class of 2010 after

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  library system. (See here and here for evidence.) On Saturday afternoons, I oftentimes embark on library crawls, during which I visit up to 3 libraries in ... library for Course 14: Economics, Course 15: Sloan School of Management

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  change the means of success that I relied on for so long. One quote that ... . I have a bad habit of focusing on all of the outcomes that could go ... I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  the South. On campus you can find me creating stuff in one of MIT’s many ... half my stuff) Ran out of prescription meds (because my health insurance changed) Tripped so badly walking down Amherst Alley (on a

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  located). in fact, it’s so small that it usually appears on the 2nd page of ... parish of st ives. it’s a town that’s around 10 miles outside of Cambridge ... hub for study/work abroad']misti[/annotation]internship on

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  room on the verge of passing out, I feel sort of free. Maybe one day in ... a weird time. A lot of people say IAP is one of MIT's best offerings and the most pleasurable month of the academic calendar, but I don

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  quaint family dinners on Thanksgiving, complete with all manner of ... perfect, considering it's that time of year again. No, I'm not talking about ... filled with colonies of moldy (and unintentionally animate) clothes and

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  . Techiya, on the other hand, sings a variety of music, from slow liturgies to ... on the last day of class. This class is also very fun, and I would ... a very high level of musicality and are full of virtuosic musicians

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  a number of cool things. I think I also missed out on some of the ... experience last year / my observations of other peoples' experiences. In no ... , then MIT is a boiling cauldron of every possible kind of weirdness (and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the brothers of Alpha Delta Phi. One of the rush activities was a pizza dinner at ... session that evening. There was a big picture of a pizza on it, so I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  adequately describe the incredible sight of 20,000+ people on their way to ... three of the bloggers would drop off the face of the earth for a little ... think, "PSHHH." "Pshhhhh," I would think. "If I had the honor of being an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  any fire alarms (I heard that last semester, on the first day of 3 ... promise I haven't fallen off the earth! Coming off of pass/no record, though, is taking a little bit of adjustment. Speaking of adjustment.. This

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  ask anybody for help. As you might imagine, sticking 1000 of the brightest kids in the world on a single college campus means that not all of ... 's always a big group of freshmen in my entry's lounge on Thursday nights

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  -female (and one of the nicest dorms on campus), and there are all-female suites ... people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... people are interested in this question, I find it decidedly odd... sort of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  of applicants we have and the limited space on campus. And the fact ... perfect. Some students thrive on the challenge of taking many advanced ... Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016