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• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  IAP, which is popularly described as "MIT without the work", i.e. the mystical utopia described by the admissions blogs. IAP is a truly magical time during which absolutely nothing is expected of you; ironically, you

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  seemingly only a science in a purely semantical sense, is a hidden gem here at ... committee, to over 250 delegates. Its representation is becoming nearly as ... Sloan's Wong AuditoriumSome of you might be wondering what Model UN is in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  . Some of these stores; that is, stores which sold coats, even provided ... metaphor of a post-it-encrusted cubicle? Anything is possible, but the ... -classical music until high school, so this is all kind of new, but jazz is like a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  -hello? Cheerful guy at the front desk: Ma'am, there is a taxi waiting for you. Me ... -less-cheerful guy at the front desk: Ma'am, it is currently 6:35. Me: Uh...oh. Haha ... turns out, CMI airport in Champaign, Illinois, is not very big, and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  Wesomeness that is MIT...As I would do right now if I had the chance to - high ... : There is only one picture on this post. I usually only read blogs if they ... stairwell at New House 3 on Saturday. The good news is that this mishap didn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... on the waitlist? As I've said, the waitlist is not ranked. We will ... waitlist. How many people will you admit from the waitlist this year? It is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  , for an upcoming post about my favorite door on campus. (No, that is not ... , where most of what I do is staring at a computer while it tells me how much time is left on my conversion to a movie in Final Cut Pro. (Two

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . #2 - Exercise and sleep are corequisites to sanity. #3 - It is possible ... called the Clear Conscience Cafe, which is right in front of this ... ! 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

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  Christians and high GDPs. The fact that I didn't get a present this year is ... “Santa Clause is Coming to Town” is much more metrically flexible than ... Vicinity.” Furthermore, I'll concede that the Santa function is complex and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  most often about AFROTC is "but what do you do every week?" Cadets in Det ... , which is where we really get to practice our skills. LLAB is run by the juniors, seniors, and fifth-years, and is designed to teach the freshmen and

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  . I'm pretty content with what we ended up with. Trevor '13 is seen here ... nobody is complaining. After orientation was over it was time for Floor ... adventure. The first is the straight fall, the second is of a spiral we made

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  hounded with endorsement deals (well okay maybe Snively is) but it's a pretty big deal to us. The annual blogger selection is like the Admissions ... upperclassmen. However if your first thought is, "Bah! They will all fall weeping

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  evaporated (10-20 minutes). 8. While the chicken is cooking, begin preparing ... as much water as there is rice. 10. Place rice on stove at high heat ... and place on freshly steamed rice (when the rice is ready). Be careful

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  breakdown of my blog audience is not verified by real statistics. It does ... sentence is to be interpreted literally in the context of “there's so many blog readers in this picture that the probability of your inclusion is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

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

  

  a poetic is). Like chocolate, winter break melts under the hot ... the fact that the reference frame of this sentence is accelerating ... . The maximum time allowed for each problem is 4 minutes, and the fastest

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  advising is further divided into Traditional and Seminar Advising. Seminar Advising is actually an academic subject worth 6 units of credit and has ... learning more about it. FASAP (Freshman Advising Seminar Arts Program) is one

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  perfect the UC application. I relished their Uncommon Application, which is ... Chicago. Every quality of that school is duplicated at MIT, from the sense ... became clear that Chicago is a liberal arts school with a strong science

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong ... hometown is a classist jerk, but more than once have I or a member of my ... South High School is better funded than Middletown North High School

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  One of the most common misconceptions about MIT is that the Institute is all about working hard, finishing problem sets, writing code, curing cancer, and otherwise having no fun at all. I know this is a common

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  medical group from Taiwan. The medical group is essentially a medical ... . (note: Montreal is a really beautiful city and a great place to get away ... !)) This is what actual C. elegans look like under the microscope, in case

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008