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  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  "MIT" - but I suck at shaving. Hope you enjoy anyway. The real shave will ... Waited until midnight so I could post on the 11th officially (EST, anyway) - we'll be mailing in less than 24 hours. Wow. For me this is a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Riemann Zeta Hypothesis was voted to be the most ... the millenium problems. The Fields Medal might be better known to you as "that thing from the first five minutes of Good Will Hunting." If you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  other college kids will be envious of your majestic beauty and cool style ... effective stress-relief technique. Reason #5: You will never have to be late ... give it. For example, this is the prompt I gave GPT-3. This is a great

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  think of it as an invitation. For some, it will be an invitation to see how MIT can play a further role in your story. For others, it will be an ... your light to the world in new and different ways than you may be

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  will be what you make of it. If you maintain the sense of optimism ... will soon experience: the chance to learn with - and from - students from ... different from yours. This opportunity, in fact, may turn out to be the one

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  open and free and curious..." then tldr the world will be ultimately OK ... long enough. Now they belong to the world, and the world will be better ... members of the Class of 2018 @ their CPW  Tomorrow, they will walk

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  the edges of what we will see and shows us just the very beginnings of the picture, hinting just a bit at what will be in the larger picture ... . We get all the pieces when we read it, but we have no idea what it will

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  will be the questions that I answer first.   Finally (for this ... the rules: Make sure your question is general enough to be of ... closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  to be one of the most important sources of conflict. If his idea proves successful there, as all indicators suggest that it will be, he’ll export ... needs him now more than ever, and that he’ll be ready to answer the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to read them. Besides being the language of Rohan in the novels of J

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  , and will be in the TV lounge on the ground floor behind the vending ... tonight, and they will repeat throughout the semester roughly every other week. They will not always be on Tuesday so that those of you who have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  . Hopefully the final edition will be something useful that anyone can refer to ... Boston traffic when I could be swinging my arms and whistling in the ... limited by the amount of energy you are willing to expend. Walking from the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  , it should be expected that policy very drastically affecting the ... purported to be. (Still, the aggregate data has not been publicly released, so ... of the world quantitatively. And personally, I love being at MIT! but I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  As you've likely read, Snively, Paul, and Bryan will be hosting a variety of prefrosh guest bloggers during CPW. This has been done in the ... 's entries! I've decided to add to the CPW coverage by creating a CPW tumblr

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  character in Garry Trudeau's popular Doonesbury comic strip, will be coming to ... For those of you who are closely following the Doonesbury comic strip ... her around campus next year...at least in The Tech. Here's today

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  who knows the most digits of Pi will be rewarded with a Pie! Come for ... blue and green. By now I think there should be a category called "e ... Jewish." But there's not, so this will go in Miscellaneous. From: Irving

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  all here next fall. I know that some of you will be disappointed and a dream will have been dashed. In one of the moments that I was thinking ... I can see the end of my first reading season from here, and it has

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  test dates, you will not qualify for the Match. If you have not completed ... will not have a full set of tests by the October testing date, what ... application is incomplete, we will not be able to match you. However, we would

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  for 2018 isn't out yet (it will be here when it is), but the types of ... everyone thinks they will have the best guest. The magic algorithm that ... .mit.edu/experience for the official logistical information. Below you will find

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  professor will surely be around Go back the next day and finally spot the ... , which made the process more complicated/drawn out than it had to be. So ... that effort to track him down, be sad when the professor says no, because

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020