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• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  strength and once again climbed up to the rock face. Very soon, he approached ... I just wanted to say that please don't give up hope, and I know that ... you choose to go - even if it's not at MIT. I want to share with you a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  associated with touching water that had once belonged to the Charles River and ... expression that said, “Nice to see you, Professor- excellent final this year

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  . Find a partner! Being Tim is Hard Work, and you need someone to guide you ... 1. Reply to random email asking for Tim volunteers. As soon as it ... wondering how you know you're meant to be Tim- the answer is, you'll feel it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  three, four, or even five, and all i need is a bit more information to ... lenc? (these are also the people i need to watch out for, since i don ... goal is to assassinate your target. you win when you're the last person

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  ] edu. If we need to follow up for confirmation, we will. Please only ... documents to this Wednesday, February 1st, at 5 PM ET. This is a mighty good time to login to MyMIT and make sure everything is in! To recap, you may

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  Tennessee, who can tell you everything you need to know about rock tumbling, has defrosted milk in a shower, and needs you to know, she's on Tik ... "]annual[/annotation]excitement: I get to introduce you to this year's crop of baby bloggers. To hire

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  of her novels. Yes,  its really ok to read a novel once in awhile! So ... is good news! It means you still have time to get some summer reading ... actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  my Special Relativity test required me to add (and subtract!) numbers with 5 significant figures, and the professor did not manage to include a ... SAT II's, which was like 29483 years ago. Unable to bear it any longer

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  blog readership will be excited to learn this fact. Adam Helfant, MIT ... , Helfant lived in Burton-Conner, the same dorm that currently is home to ... went to Harvard Law (the latest MIT Careers Office statistics have MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Weekend Update A couple FAQs and others tidbits.

  

  . 1. If you send in your reply form to MIT telling us that you're coming (and if you have decided to come, please do send it in!), we will reply to you with a postcard letting you know we have received your reply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  date; it can be helpful to add them to a calendar app or spreadsheet. Don’t wait until the last minute to submit. Life loves going wrong when ... ’t going to reject you for forgetting an apostrophe, but why give yourself

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  (~12 admissions officers) does travel across the country, to about 75 ... Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, among others. I was planning to use today's entry to talk a little bit about school visits, so I won't let a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  does it do. Me: ...it collects solar energy, and uses it to charge things ... The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  fortunate that MIT has the financial resources to be a need blind institution ... more schools to be need blind. I also wish MIT could admit more ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  myself working harder than I ever have to keep up. But there's much more to your second year than the "sophomore slump", and certainly much more ... This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  time studying and you won't get to sleep much. But I've really been ... to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without so much of the "frak it's 4am and I don't understand the material I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  Google Last year during freshman fall, I made a couple of guides to random things on campus. I'd like to bring that back this year, along with a much ... 'm doing this semester is here - it's a guide to nice places to work on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  visits at least once every day. Because it's MIT, the Infinite is also a site of random tomfoolery. For example, MITHenge, which, according to ... as "MIThenge", a reference to Stonehenge's alignment with the sun

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  our 60" HDTV and server, when we decided to tell the random stranger that they were talking to a room full of MIT students. As it turns out, they had a friend that was just accepted to MIT EA. I'm not sure how much

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  when I needed another place to stay; about the professors who have taken ... burst onto the stage to welcome everyone to the [annotation note ... happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022