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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  conclusion that November 5th is unquestionably the best of birthdays. What ... to me, and on to you. It is pretty awesome, and another piece of data ... have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can I apply if I am undocumented?

  information, check out the section of our website for undocumented applicants. ... Yes! Undocumented and DACA applicants submit the same application components and go through the same selection process as all other students. For
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under ... What do MIT students do on a Saturday night? Well, if it's the Saturday before Halloween - they watch hundreds of pumpkins get tossed off

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  the majority of my college experience, so it'll take some adjusting to get used to this new paradigm. IAP was as fun as it was tumultuous. I ... in the midst of a lot of relationship-related conflict to be reminded

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have a class rank or GPA?

  school doesn't calculate GPA, please don't convert your grades to a U.S. GPA system. Simply leave spaces blank if the information is not ... Please don't be overly concerned about your class rank or GPA (grade
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  learning to trust shapes and colors to be the real thing? Like a faraway ... someone gave me the opportunity to find out, would I? I'm thinking if I ... the world to ease the pressure of having to choose a direction for "my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  justice to the many projects that were presented by some twenty alumni ... first drawn to MIT by Ed Pincus and Richard Leacock, whose Film section ... particularly wanted to work with the technology they had developed

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  Boston, I still get chills thinking about the great pitching and defensive ... ). Even though Elgin is northwest of Chicago (and most northsiders are Cubs ... 'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had the

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ancient Chinese secret, eh? MIT researchers discover an uncommon cure for the common cold.

  

  snort a salt solution up your nose, I guess, by osmosis, the cells of your nose should lose water to the higher-concentration salt solution, which ... taste, then snorting said solution up your nose. Fortunately, prior to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  , and Celevator also has a strange habit of going all the way to the first ... Things always seem to come in threes. The Three Musketeers. The Holy ... I’m in one, I have no choice but to ponder the machine surrounding me

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  ), which traditionally is when all the students return to see all their ... the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a ... and trips designed to help introduce people to the fun they can have in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  . Whenever I get stuck on my work, I like to find a new place to study. The ... yeah, and to get an MIT degree. After four years, I've completed neither goal. Never fear, I'm taking another semester in the fall to finish my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  stayed in place despite its best efforts to escape. MIT's victory ... Oh look, how interesting. MIT seems to have won an Olympic gold medal at Torino. All photo credits go to Matt Peddie '09. A pretty nighttime

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old ... Forest Hills. (For you subway people, we took the Red line to Downtown Crossing, where we switched to the Orange Line and took it until the end.) We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET

  

  enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action decisions online next Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET.  To check your decision on the 15th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your My

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  ?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication-intensive (CI) humanities classes you have to take as part of your 8 class ... CI classes in your major: CI-Ms. I invite you to join me on this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  compelled to log it here before hitting the sack... Please, please, don't take the MIT admissions decision as any indication of your potential. You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  pressure is just the momentum imparted to an object from light. Basically ... chip. My project was to find out how to remove those wires from the chip ... revolutionize technology, we must start with the fundamentals and build our way up

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Literature Tea & Mural Contest Artwork on cookies and walls.

  

  On Monday, I went to an afternoon tea sponsored by Course 21L: Literature. The event (which occurs weekly!) is open to everyone, so even if ... the Stata Center. "The Student Mural Project is a competition open to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  ; the latter is to raise money for leukemia research, and was started by ... Anderson's Race after the marathon (4/22). The former is to benefit Big ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006