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  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  kickoff the season, I thought I'd share a little bit about my acceptance to ... windshield wipers off. I felt a nervousness I hadn't felt in the weeks prior ... turned the radio back on. Vienna was coming to a close. There wasn

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  much from last year, but we did make a few minor tweaks:  We ... read "Tell us about a significant challenge you've faced or something ... "   We've added a question to the activities section where you can indicate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  realized I wouldn't be seeing my friends for a long time, knitting has always ... remember going from trying to knit a simple square to designing intricate ... started measuring time in units of how long it took me to knit a headband

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop ... in my mind, DOOM was a myth. DOOM was an idea. DOOM was one of those ... of a thing to happen to someone so large. Another thing that caught me

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  last year's early action period, when we received 9,291. As I wrote a few ... , beekeepers and biologists — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  This is a very brief blog post to remind you —  as our announcement ... is tonight! Every year we blog about 2.009, a capstone course in ... 's flagship hands-on courses, with a class budget larger than some offices at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment ... 'll be leaving in a few weeks, along with most of the other students on campus, I'm glad I got a chance to enjoy the snow this season.

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  writing is like a probability distribution, and writing more gives better chances, in the long run, that you’ll write something good. (As a corollary ... .) Besides, a work is never truly completed. You can always edit blog posts, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but ... events helped prevent its spread. In a situation like this, even the "best" actions to take from a health standpoint can still be extremely difficult

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  We are majoring in 21E, a joint major that lets you combine any ... about the requirements of 21E, and were inspired to make a diagram, sine ... = Production of Educational Videos 21M.601 = Drawing for Designers 21A.502

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT's unconventional housing assignment process, the ... those of you who want a peek into how the different MIT residences choose ... tends to make their own I3 video; this year, not every community has a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  curricula were similar to that of a Soviet university and that “the kind of ... role of a private university in an era of well-funded public universities ... -ent form of democracy, is a persistent tendency to growth and centralization

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  and experience the Internet as it was before group chats: a ... a jerk. That is all.

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a ... Next House helped us a lot during the Housing Lottery process this year to ensure that we will be able to live in a different double in 3E next

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing the MIT Application Essays Hurgh. I know.

  

  The secret is... there's not really a secret. Just some tips. 0:18 A lil' bit about me 0:36 Why you DON'T need to stress out 1:21 What "being ... former Associate Director of Admissions https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how-to-write-a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  comes at a difficult college-choosing time. I hope that a look at MIT ... , a list of women graduates, a dedication to MIT "college girls", and a ... a good time (still do). I've already written about their creative

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  A couple of months ago I got an email saying that Leslie Jones (from SNL and Ghostbusters and others) was doing a show at MIT and that tickets were being awarded based on a lottery system. I entered the lottery

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  this MIT News article about her win and a great interview, posted by ... Of Lilly that MIT suddenly had a custom snapchat filter activated on ... who knows Lilly is going to do a longer interview of her with lots of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  winners a year may seem like a lot, but according to Forbes there are 15,000 nominations per year to choose from. That's a 4% acceptance rate, less than MIT ... alums in the 30 Under 30 for the past three years. (Slice of MIT is a cool

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  If you've walked down the Infinite before, you've probably seen doors. A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one ... Engineering just posted a short video about Glenn and his time and contributions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017