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  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  ) Easily-Googleable questions make me grumpy. Ex: "what is the application ... all -- Z. H. asked, Do you read the essays? The answer is no, I have ... just learned that my AP Calculus AB grade for my first semester is not a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  Tomorrow is May 1, otherwise known as the Common Reply Date. This is ... tomorrow (May 1); the formal deadline is 11:59pm on May 1.  You have three ... , military service, or other reason). Whatever your decision is, please do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  My family is here! Yesterday and today, my parents and my little ... a science essay, and impact crater formation. Lisa is here early for ... going to be here for CPW itself - ESP is flying me to California, to teach

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!! Undergraduates just got their prefrosh ... that makes us happy :)  It is helping us get through this tough week, and ... CPW, no worries! Orientation week is just as great, just a week long

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  the MIT Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is organizing for high school ... Cambridge to participate. This time around, however, SWE is holding an ... contest! This is the official message from SWE’s outreach chairs. --- Hi

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting ... Serious Business LLC and MIT squash coach. The premise of danger!awesome is ... , metal, and wood. Of course, it is not necessarily limited to these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010. That doesn't mean I'm not allowed ... . Check it out: One of the best parts about Rambax is that you don't need ... on the beach in Dakar: The music scene in Dakar is one of the most

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  is written by MIT Media Lab professor Alex (Sandy) Pentland on the ... . Designing Media is a collection of interviews with media pioneers, probing media of the future. And lastly, Ai Weiwei's Blog is a translated

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  the past 4 days working on 6.005. Our assignment is to create a Sudoku ...  (Piazza is basically a site where students can ask questions and instructors ... a class extension for pset 2's deadline? This is a hard pset, and we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  bound is your sanity.) Here's the anticlimax: I am not one of those ... have optional, weekly open problem solving sessions, which is kind of ... just completely for fun. This class is my official substitution for 6

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is ... of traveling is making new friends! In this trip, I met a wonderful and ... store. The whole nicolas-cage-was-here was obviously a joke (or IS IT

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... my eye on the most is ice climbing. If you want the technical ... hands and feet to get up not-that-cold vertical stuff. The gist of it is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  psychopomp? The answer is about to be served implicitly atop an egocentric ... journey. It is as cold, as they say, as though we were in hell, and a sports ... or other. 2:05 PM It is the second day of Bad Ideas, the weekend that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  Here are some FAQs for deferred students... Is it all over for me ... we ask that you do is complete the Midyear Report, which will be ... is the Midyear Report? The Midyear Report (MYR) is an online form

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  numbers and MIT selects "prime" candidates - is that a reason for the date ... perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically ... 're going live on 12/17 at 12:17? No. What they have to with is this: history

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  Margaret Mary Lloyd, where have you been?! This is probably ... excuse, nor is it a particularly unique one, but that’s the story I ... Chemical Engineering, is our senior design class. We don’t have a thesis, we

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  database. If you did not receive an email: your application is almost ... component is this: don't panic! We do not consider applications until and ... to fax the document to us. The fax number you should use is included in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Untitled "The work is untitled because meaning is always changing in time and place." ⁃ Félix…

  

  ;present,” but your identity is “absent.” (Oh, and what about the droll ... allocation, its relevence is amplified by current economic questions of pareto ... interpretation is always becoming what it will be.... Terribly honored to have

  • by ARTalk
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Two weeks ago, I arrived back at MIT. This is the view from my new ... is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during the summer is a beautiful thing. No psets. No exams. No pressure to cram

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  MIT.” “We are?! Why is that?” “Because MIT is having a party and I ... “unlike any other” place that is MIT, we still had to get back home to the ... more celebrating. Life is sweet, huh?

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011