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  Numbers Sigh.

  

  grade at MIT. My birthday. And so on. I've cried over some of these ... week has been particularly rough on several of my friends here at MIT ... First of all: my apologies! Junior year has seized me, spun me around

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  going on in that room, and thus quite possibly a whole bunch of people in ... Originally, I planned on naming this entry “Cool Stuff at MIT” and ... actually goes on at MIT, and decided that said series would inevitably morph

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  : • a very good quality paper with random lines of text that we typed on ... on the top of the memory mushroom when Anastassia gave it to us! 2 ... /programs of shows we’ve seen on campus (all of which were phenomenal!): • Jekyll

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  it's been collecting dust. On Monday, at the beginning of my Chaucer ... became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes - Shakespeare, Western Civilizations, chemistry, Pre-Calc/Calc, band, and so on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  (and Ben and Nance) been? Reading applications. Lots and lots of ... 'm really enjoying this year's applications; I know that we have a lot of ... decisions online on Saturday, December 9th at 12 noon Eastern Standard Time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  get a lot of requests from students asking what their chances of admission are. We couldn't do that without a thorough review of an entire ... process. We don't advise any student what their chances of admission may be
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  Peak fall foliage has finally hit MIT. Some trees on campus started to turn as early a September, but only recently has most of the campus ... ). I'm not a very good photographer, but here are a few images of campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  education, even if it's not one of these brand-name, looks-good-on ... In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... of applications I still have to read. The other work (yes, other work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  . From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the July 4th fireworks. Some of my friends have gone the extra mile. In 1876

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  seems to go right. Frustration is a part of the human experience and a reminder that you care about some things, regardless of how much you say you don't. In times of stress and disappointment and anxiety, we forget how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  the blogs. And my motivation for being on here and my favorite part of ... I first set foot on campus about five years ago for my MIT Admissions job interview, and I made the HUGE mistake of not studying a campus map

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home ... tea, and a few times a semester we bring two thirds of that activity to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  on. You can think of essay questions as instruments which elicit a ... best we can, which is how we've settled on our current format of ... I've got applications on the brain. Last week, we posted the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  captain of the team, but not the captian. Someone might be on the school ... Every year, the MIT admissions staff reads tens of thousands of ... admissions selection process. During that process, we notice a lot of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Vol. III Everyone gather 'round the laptop 'cause it's movie time!

  

  've been going on to Facebook, enjoying plenty of potty humor and having impromptu dance parties of my own... ...I'M HOME AND IT'S AWESOME. More ... 's a video. Boom. Sorry in advance for the singing. If any of the other

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • July 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"

  

  . In the interest of full disclosure, I have had a mild crush on him ... In case you haven’t been able to tell by the lack of bloggage across ... lot of people have been having final projects due this week. Outside

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  President Susan Hockfield

  

  Hockfield on her first day as president of MIT.   Monday, December 6 ...   To: "All Members of the MIT Community" From: "Kathryn A ... for Susan Hockfield   To all members of the MIT community:  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?

  -year applicant regardless of how many units of study you may have taken at the university level. Information on transfer credit is available at the Office of
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of ... innovation toward climate science, including the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, the Joint Program on the Science and Policy
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  an issue I've written about before in other venues on the subject of ... , hang on...what's that on the cover of WIRED? From Makezine: Engineer ... being on the cover of WIRED. You own. And, more importantly, you give me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011