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  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  ! YOUR SUMMER ASSIGMENT IS SO THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY UNTIL YOU ... ? *This statement is not true if your summer assignment is to a living group ... much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Application is now available! You can now access the MIT freshman application at MyMIT.

  

  admission to MIT. Your MyMIT page includes interview information, personalized ... ), within a couple days of registering. You should contact your EC as soon as your are ready to schedule the interview, but well before the application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  , they will get your letter in to us. And we are much more flexible with ... your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better ... one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  brochure or a website (or Google Street View if you're really obsessed ... 've had a lot to do and thus unsurprisingly, I've kept pretty busy. Yes ... really means to be here. First, there's CPW, where (if you're like me) you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  or other, so I probably won't get a chance to do it tonight. Anyway ... until I get a chance to get all the pictures together, here's a poem I ... ." Today, 3/4, is unofficially national marching band day. Get it? Anyway, to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  in Courage" Cast your vote now on the MIT Admissions Facebook page! ... in Stockholm, Sweden will begin to award this year's Nobel Prizes ... this year, just for fun, I'm doing a poll.  Which MIT professor is your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  One of these labs is not like the other GELlin' like a felon

  

  select a leader. Once you have, leaders, raise your hand” Me: *turns to ... : “Alright, you have a packet in front of you. You have 30 minutes to complete ... actually do get to practice in real situations all these skills that we

  • by Stanley G.
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  phrase to NYTMITSISATEE?), because, well, I’m a n00b.* As in, I-can’t-solve-a ... very much like writing a good recipe: you have to list your ingredients ... sometimes you get little pictures throughout your recipe to check to make sure

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  to be evil. Why? Here's what it looks like. Problem 1/ a -- s Problem 2/ a -- c Problem 3/ a -- f Problem 4/ a -- l That's right, you're reading it correctly, A through S. 19 parts! In addition to the other parts

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  confound my picture-taking efforts. It was on the second floor, and getting a ... . (Oh, and it's got facts and stuff on it.) With that in mind, here's to ... In honor of Wikipedia's 10th birthday (January 15th), MIT celebrated

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  painters tape to build a flat-three-dimensional table in the middle of the ... HONK! Fest in Cambridge, a parade to reclaim the streets for horns, bikes ... ’d like to tell you a little more about Cracked. Cracked is a student

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a class, it gets recorded on your transcript merely as a "P". If you get a D ... during term). I ended up with a B+ in my HASS (9.00, intro to psychology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  bore the slogan "It's getting hot in herre, so emigrate to Israel with ... holding a fantastic event TODAY in our Sukkah on the Kresge Oval. We'll be ... admission-related mailing from MIT. It contained a form to apply for my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in ... this is going. Yes, I applied to MIT just to see if I could get in, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  , they get to relive their triumph to an interested audience, in the latter ... TFUEC has been working for two and a half years to redesign MIT's GIRs ... years from now, so some of you might have a vested interest in knowing

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  should apply to MIT. I came across an article on Google news about a ... -question examination that could be used in lieu of an application to admit people to MIT ... before coming across it in my blog, then you should definitely apply to MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  professions, in a way Santa and Poseidon both have a lot to do with to snow. I ... .) Running that evening was surreal. It felt like we were in a tunnel of snow ... -distance. Luckily Ami is a physicist and her hat is science-magical and they got to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  , the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood ... to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering ... summaries, but I'll leave a link to an article about each piece. I'll also

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  beating a dead horse is betting on one, so why keep putting your hope in ... yet.  So now I know I need to make a change. But how? How do I get out ... strong enough to get things done on my own, and I shouldn't need help. In

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with ... -minded noises in response while working on a short story that looked funnily ... Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014