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  Special October Events

  

  -American Rejects played a free concert on Saturday for the event! ---------- COMING ... about sex? Want to prove once and for all who the true players are in ... Stuart, MIT's sexuality educator, will be on hand to MC the game, answer

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  it finally became time to find a new solution. My solution for the ... , but rainboots are a very nice invention. Especially on MIT’s campus. For ... occurrences on campus, so sometimes you just have to tread through them

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  prefrosh, so I had to come up with some clever options for “prefrosh tetris ... probably help host. It would be extremely awkward for the prefrosh to sleep at awkward angles to each other while I sprawled on my full-sized bed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , but if you can't be there, the award will be mailed to you.) So for ... engineering fields and work on career development. The students will be able to ... ://swe.mit.edu/highschool/exploringmajors.php This year the date is set for Sunday, November 18, 2012 from 2:00 to 4

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  thing on your plate right now is figuring out when to take the Freshman ... picture for you - FPOPs are a great opportunity for you to do things outside of your comfort zone, and it also is the perfect way for you to start

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  vaccine for free. My bad. You may be wondering how governments (or, in this case, universities) subsidize something that they are offering for free ... vaccine has on other people. In order to reach the socially optimal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  are some of them. All based on true stories, of course.  For those of ... butt glued to a random chair on the first floor of Stata. But your mentor ... procrastinate on doing laundry for even longer. You want this internship so badly

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

  free food—that reminded me how much I enjoyed exploring MIT for the first ... -specific events! A lot of clubs will hold CPW events for you to get to know the ... , fraternity, and independent living group hosts CPW events for you all to talk

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  want is for college applications to add to that stress. We know that some ... same criteria to evaluate applications for both EA and RA. Take the time you need to apply in the timeline that works best for you and don

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  concentration, and I want mine to be writing! It'll give me a little break from ... to work as a third rider on the MIT ambulance. Basically, anyone who ... about to begin. I'm taking the following classes: 7.013 - Introductory

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  week since I watched Hamilton on tour. An entire week of attempting to do ... anymore. And so you do the two things you can do: listen to the playlist on ... Thomas Jefferson. I felt the need to jump out of my seat for Hamilton. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  (we only have to pay for the cost of our book this year, while EMT ... they don't care about all the time just to put it on their college ... that's not going to compensate for a complete lack of extracurriculars

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  room with my parents standing on either side of me, ready to either ... opportunity to make similar memories for yourselves. The first word of the MIT ... something like, "On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  . Then some other people on my floor went to the free Ig Informal lectures ... tend to have study breaks and go on trips mostly with your floor. Because ... literally free money, we have to stage a battle to the death at an Exec

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor ... am unlikely to see a castle built for me anytime soon!) While big ... disciplinary constraints? To explore these issues, I have been on an extended

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  things are they working on? How far have they come to get here? What do ... for simply listening to what they had to say.         When you hold a ... great to actually be able to just stop someone in the middle of the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  having to check maybe 10-15 packages on an average morning in the past, but on that one day last month, I had to check in nearly 50 packages of various sizes. The culprit? Well, most pinned the blame on Amazon for its

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online ... to study), and I bet you’re really eager to come – not just for Campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly ... . ... These new steps to enhance MIT’s affordability for students and families are the latest in a long history of efforts by the Institute to free up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  UROPed on campus all summer to work on the experiments for my thesis ... how we can use those traces to understand the history of life on Earth ... Opportunities Program - a way to do research for pay, credit, or as a volunteer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022