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• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  those skills. You may be surprised by the things you like to do, and the ... side of life. Being both an old person and a young person, it stands to ... things in your life will be determined by complete serendipity. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.

  

  ; The quality of the essays. I was constantly floored by the way so many ... forced to discuss them using only my inner voice. The fine ways that many ... factor. Normal students apply and will be accepted to MIT. If what you do

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  special solar car t-shirt. The day continued to be delightful. I got more ... before midnight with one of my friends encouraging me to get pumped about ... developments, I will soon gain access to the front of my cerebral cortex, where

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  live in the dorm assigned to you, a permanent room will be assigned once ... of them devised a unique way to celebrate my arrival, near Lobby 10 ... activities were made available by each hall to aid in that purpose. A few

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  the airport, which assures a good time to be had by all. Waites (UGA ... gets to be a grandmother Far, far too many people are way, way too blunt ... members of the class of 09, preparing to leave thier respective wombs, ye be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  balloons to be amorphous or irregular     I had to first ... chocolate step was going to be difficult. I tried fishnets- I needed to cut ... syrup, which is way hotter than melted chocolate. The trick to keeping the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  Prefrosh: Firstly, congratulations on being admitted to MIT. I always say ... within that vein. I thought it might be good to try and write down my ... are going to be constantly filled with stress. I had a prefrosh ask if

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  like this: "You can tell what we care about by the way we introduce ... , fraternity brothers will go out of their way to insure that interested freshmen ... made that year, and how they continue to affect my life today. Without a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  travelling.] For months, I've been looking forward to the day I'd be leaving ... I'm not ready to be leaving home; goodness, I've had two and a half ... the very last time as a true "local". Well, to be honest, I felt a bit

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  the way to Allston (about 40-50 minutes away by bike) to go to a Vegan ... - lessons learned at IAP. #1 - Cambridge and Boston are meant to be explored ... ! This is on our way to the Valley of Fire, named as such because of rocks

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  be any winter! But if there's one thing to describe Boston's weather ... !) so there's no way I can sneak off to the mountains for a few runs ... people are excited by that, because the cold, bleak winter is a tough time

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  by Astronaut/Professor Jeffrey Hoffman (I'd like to be an "Astronaut ... /or waterproof footwear! (Thursday looks to be beautiful, though) It's after ... the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  .0001. I found each problem set to be challenging in its own way, and they ... that useful. Now, I love to find ways to use it. I think of it as an additional way to interact with those who use my programs. Enhanced Debugging

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  that it frequently seems to be part of a continuous feedback loop. Allow ... . All too often students are lauded for being admitted to places like MIT ... applicant less awesome. It just means that they need to be awesome somewhere

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2017 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent late afternoon today, May ... students applied to transfer, and we have admitted 24. And as usual, we are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  applicants, receive decisions via email from our office to the address listed on their application. The emails will be sent late afternoon today, May ... students applied to transfer, and we have admitted 22. And as usual, we are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  sprint by Raphael, we managed to catch a cab back to the hostel. R ... recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of altitude acclimation. - It's Sunday. We were woken up at 6:30am by very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  in comparison to Tetazoo. I quickly abandoned this thought when I ... ."]stabsies,[/annotation] Putzens yell "seat check." To say Putzens are pacifists would not be fully ... morning with what I understand to be [annotation note="the Green Building

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  week, but I think what I learned can be best illustrated by what I saw ... person meetings had already proven themselves to be sparsely attended, so ... the story out, we all had to invoke these traits in some way because we

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  proof that a post could be hazardous to your mental health. If you walk ... awesome time to be in, at, and around MIT. There's all kinds of art ... MIT150 art around campus seems to be in white. Could we have had some

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011