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  That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.

  

  , Friday CPW Registration Help Desk, 1-3pm, Friday "Voting" for Daniel in the Big Screw, 3pm, Friday A quick look in at the Ted Kennedy lecture, 3:15pm-ish, Friday Presentation of New Undergraduate Curricula in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  each paid $2 to get in, and were handed 5 meal tickets. In addition to ... .) Unfortunately, one was a casualty of some rainy weather today. Anyway, back to ... ) and I went to Harvard Square for some errands and dinner. Weywey dug

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is MIT a diverse community?

  At MIT diversity isn’t simply a word, it is an integral part of the MIT experience. MIT Admissions is committed to reaching students from all backgrounds. We know that while for some students getting into a
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host ... had a dream where I visited Snively at his school. I walked in in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Looking ahead to IAP My favorite MIT event...period.

  

  I got this email in my inbox: ------------------------------ Hi Eveyrone! I know it's hard to believe but IAP is fast approaching and, along ... , January 12th at 12pm in Lobby 7. Thanks! Jennifer for The Evil Midnight

  • by Bryan
  • November 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In ... , hypercubes, the Black Death, and more, taught in a fun/crazy style by MIT ... Important note: the weather forecast has a 70%+ chance of rain Friday

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

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

  I grew up in Elgin, IL and I'm a huge White Sox fan (sorry Astro fans ... chance to go to games one and two in Chicago this past weekend with my parents and brother. The White Sox haven't been in a World Series since 1959

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does my school submit recommendation letters and transcripts?

  competitive applicants will provide one from a math/science teacher, and one from a humanities, social science, or language teacher. We also require materials from your school counselor (typically including your transcript, a school
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  -Lab trip leaders and the community in Miramontes are working on providing a ... sealer for a local rice micro-enterprise in Brisas del Mar; and designing ... are working with here in Honduras. Even though we had a bumpy start

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Who’s that girl in uniform?

  

  future. I want to be a fighter pilot in the US Air Force, hopefully going ... the stairs (since it actually is possible to be a complete klutz and a ... first (yeah course 16!), but being an AFROTC cadet comes in a close second

  • by ROTC
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  compared to a dance in which the couples change partners. Metathesis is used ... decided today to sleep in and not check on the Chemistry prize. Big mistake ... carbon atoms in ways that cause atom groups to change places. This happens

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to ... CONCLUSION: I wish I had a conclusion to this rant. -- And here I am, going back to Massachusetts Institute of Technology in less than 2 weeks. What

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  's admit rate for early action is so low in comparison to the admit ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... the applicants. A similar number of students were denied, while those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  a shocking look inside a macgregor single where my loners at

  

  I have to move out of my room that I've lived in for four semesters and a summer. It stings a little, but I figured I'd introduce you to my setup. (You might want to max out the quality if you really need to see

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  must complete a minor in order to go to medical school -- these links are ... Truth the next semester.) Anyway, our 21A.453 class had only 3 students in ... "pre-med" track, so you can major in anything at all and have access to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  -is-becoming-pretty-standard hard And waking-up-in-time-for-your-9am-class-that-you-slept-through-consistently-for-the-past-month-is-a ... the only thing we can do is to take things one semester at a time. And ... -quadruple-booking-yourself-and-forgetting-about-all-four-things hard Because you’re-too-busy-trying-to-prevent-your

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  -covered sidewalk and falling flat on my butt in front of a group of construction ... inability to remain standing on my feet for more than a nanosecond without ... on one (1) set of steps in front of Senior Haus and nearly hitting

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• FAQ / Testing

  Will MIT accept November Tests for Early Action?

  consideration. There will be an opportunity to update us with any test results that become available after you submit your application. To submit new results, simply click the "Add new test scores" link in the application
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  -Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... to make a strong brick using pressure instead of heat. Also, the bricks ... /Malawian/Ghanaian dirt compares to dirt commonly found in, say... Massachusetts? Or what

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  I get a chance (maybe when I next answer questions in a day or two?) I ... students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts ... , and 1932. Their mission was to design a ring to be used as the Standard

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005