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  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  recommenders may use any one of these systems. Emphasis on one: please do not ... *Correction as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic ... , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  you the most good. Interpretations of each can be found on a page of ... to slam through 15 applications (TOO MANY!), spend a lot of time on one ... , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  honor of standing in a semi-packed lecture hall and speed-integrating on a ... solver in each round get to have another load of integrals dumped on him ... . Fun fact: 5/12th of the finalists live on a single floor in my dorm, an

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  on the burden of cleaning communal spaces more than others, so we had ... Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college ... , well, "soft" sounds like "soph." IT'S SO GREAT. Living with six of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  mini-lesson on binary! We ended up finding plenty of candles, so the cake ... weekend in November called Splash, when thousands of students descend on MIT ... after this blog post I will not be updating you on the birthdays of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  above into a wine glass on the ground holding two ends of cable, thus ... even after two watches. with everything going on—the music, the sound of ... of which went into the glass tanks. in contrast, she spent $600 on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high ... tens of other posts written by tens of other bloggers instead of being so ... think of to do for this post is one of those drawings where you smush a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  -promised pictures of my friends and I being all dorky and appreciative of Doctor Who ... 's equivalent of Residential Advisors--housemasters, and associate housemasters ... , chocolate covered strawberries, and, of course, mini variety packs of candy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  Campus to the Z-Center one day when my favorite song of the musical theatre genre came on ("Seasons of Love" from Rent). As I belted out the ways they ... first quantity that came to mind was distance and the easiest unit of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to mechanical wonders in various states of disarray, blabbing incessantly about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  hopes to find a coin hidden somewhere on MIT's campus typically over the course of one weekend. Freshman year, some friends and I decided to ... of our summer training, we've been coming up with our own puzzles to

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  Name: Amy Perez Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions Hometown ... and the Boston skyline, both of which are right outside the Admissions ... being witty and down-to-earth. I am never afraid of talking about my loves

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  mass transfer problem and then go on to the rest of physics. No DDR or ... working on an 18.022 pset while she (aka "The Master of Design") did THIS to ... Ahhhh. Wednesday. Veteran's Day. A day FREE of classes. A one

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  What: Battle of the Bands When: Saturday of CPW (April 8th). Doors ... Floor of the Student Center Who: YOU! Battle of the Bands will be a ... part about the refund is a lie, but the rest of it is all true.) There

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  On September 11, 2001, I had just begun my junior year. I was running ... after 9. My "hi" to my coworkers died on my lips as I looked at their faces, drained of their usual cheer, widened by shock. "A plane crashed

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  MIT, depending on when their waves of midterms are - I realized that ... what...October 2? o_____O One of my favorite stanzas to the Engineer's Drinking Song goes like this: An MIT surveyor once found the gates of Hell

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  writing. But it took me out on the commuter rail to a part of the state ... make. That is, next Thursday, May 21th. That is, if I want to graduate on ... those hours. Good luck with the completion of the semester and your

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  communication course. In the next couple of weeks, I'll write a five-page paper on ... probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries ... 've been working on some projects on the side... Ultimately, though, what I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  campus on the last semi-sane weekend of the semester!: Friday: 2 ... . Volunteers meet outside of McCormick and travel to Lawrence, MA to work on ... students) and exams officially start on Friday and continue until Thursday

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005