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• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... %. What are the realities here? I know that while we plan for the worst ... MIT waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  tale, I'd like to take full responsibility for Sunday's events. I did ... called in for a little help. Enter the DAO (Director of Ambulance ... for at least two hours. By this time, I was numb and greatly regretting

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  LET’S PLAY Dodgeball!

  

  not an athletic giant – for one, Briggs Field conspicuously lacks a ... a hockey-related event almost every day; for hours at a time. And it's always refreshing to see people get up and leave during classes for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  O.M.G. It's over, finally. For the last two weeks all of the ... got to work right away planning and organizing orientation events for ... know freshmen. For my part, my first task of orientation was to build an

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  for school. For some reason, the whole sci-fi/fantasy world has never ... which for some reason look like people (vain creators perhaps?) creep me ... , businesspeople, professors or scientists for parents (or aunts or uncles or

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  got up and headed for the kitchen. Last fall I moved into the MIT Alpha ... as mentors, role models, guides, and resources for the students who ... . Responsibility for the house is shared by all and everyone is expected to do their

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our ... know that while we plan for the worst, usually things don't go quite so ... still turn out well for you in the end. Who do you admit from the waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  Winnie. Hi Winnie! Ever since Ben Jones left we've been looking for ... upon, Winnie has agreed to take over for now and help all of bloggers ... mentioning a brand new feature for the MIT bloggers: Locker Space! We're not

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  beeping it's driving me insane I am so tired This has been going on for ... update. My grades are all in, and for the first time since coming off of ... , which made for a frequent point of contention between me and my once

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out ... roommate picked up the following gem on sale for 50 cents at the grocery market last Thursday. It passes for a can of Crayons until you pick it up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... College, for one. Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Bob Jones ... month. At 5 I went to the professor's office hours for 8.09. Stayed there

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  attend a Faculty and Administration Dinner for Ramadan. The dinner was to ... Iman Kandil who is a senior and has been involved with the MSA for all four years at MIT. I had a chance to meet Iman and talk with her for

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  time had to do with what the ECs look for, what questions they ask and ... individual, and as a citizen of your world. You don’t make up for one part of ... interview report for as long as they are honest and reflective of who you are

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  like I thought it would (for the rest of you, look outside, yup it ... for the tale of the midnight tool: Prologue: Having taken BC Calc AP in high school, (though not getting credit for it like I should've...) I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  , drawing my eyes like a beacon. And in that moment MIT unfolded for me, as I ... they wanted to study, what they liked to do for fun. What made them tick ... first discovered my passion for biomedical research. Unsurprisingly, every

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  people for 7 days in the desert. The month of august has been a great busy time for all. I think the pressure of the impending summer's end is what ... home. Getting together some sort of exercise regimen. For some unknown

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  dogs, we roast over 300 pounds of meat over a giant spit for 17 hours ... courtyard, but alums - who return en masse for Roast every year - state ... the courtyard and crowded on balconies for the pit lighting: A

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  [Justin '08] Hi everyone. I went on the exchange for 06-07 (so I ... , although the only evaluation for Cambridge occurs at the end of the year in ... continual assessment, and are given maybe a few days to prepare for tests, and

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  condense your life into 500 words for the admissions office. But I shall try ... tools and devices that were redesigned to be inexpensive enough for people to afford. A major challenge for many people is finding fuel, usually

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Happy Things Yay!

  

  for awhile now. I've learned not to trust Boston weather, it'll probably ... was on exchange, like all of Illinois got multiple snow days! Dang. For ... 't getting my new bike for Bike and Build (which you haven't donated to yet

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008