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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  math and MIT. I now hope to meet more applicants. Come visit! It'll be ... discovered a 13.2 billion-year-old star, the oldest known to humankind, and we ... according to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, a linguist, philosopher

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder ... out, others aren't. For instance, and It's pretty safe to say that ... compressed air, I always manage to see them as bombs. One wrong move and BOOM

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  in your mailbox. And for those of you applying to MIT, I wish you the ... some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... top choices with notes of praise and hints of acceptance letters and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  so much joy to my day. Most days I ended up reaching out to people and ... introverted, and my social bandwidth is limited, even more so when it comes to ... face-to-face interactions in the hallways and classrooms. Obviously, this

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  before logging in to decisions.mit.edu.   Between Early and ... and wunderkinds, from Australia to Zimbabwe and everywhere in between ... of cognition and character. We often say we don’t admit numbers to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  before logging in to decisions.mit.edu.   Between Early and ... , rocketeers and raconteurs, from Albania to Zambia and everywhere in between ... of cognition and character. We often say we don’t admit numbers to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  students have had to collectively confront much more serious domestic and ... to the laundry room and then there were no machines available, or I had forgotten something (tide pods, dryer sheets, quarters) and had to go back to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... over, trying my best to be legible.  I was 17, and I thought this sort of ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time ... facility and my PE destination. The Z Center also home to major on ... and Kresge Oval is the main entrance to MIT on 77 Massachusetts Ave

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  hack “refers to a clever, benign, and 'ethical' prank or practical joke, which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT ... Once upon a late October, MIT hosted its annual Family Weekend

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A New Year and a New ‘Do bryan.mitblogs.com gets a little makeover.

  

  I don't have that much hair to play around with, the next best thing is to give this here blog a new outfit for the new year. What do you think about the new look? Should I keep it like this or go back to the old

  • by Bryan
  • January 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Literature Tea & Mural Contest Artwork on cookies and walls.

  

  On Monday, I went to an afternoon tea sponsored by Course 21L: Literature. The event (which occurs weekly!) is open to everyone, so even if ... should go. Professors Diana Henderson and John Hildebidle attended and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  bottom. Here at MIT, it's rapidly coming down to the end. In a week and a ... , however, is attributed not so much to the fact that the course is the most ... . I guess you'll have to come and see for yourself! (or get 5's on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  , and how I eventually committed to MIT. I’m not entirely sure how other ... Recruiting Timeline at MIT I went to several D1 and D3 camps starting at the ... month before COVID shut everything down) and got to really talk with the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  weekend. “Being hosed” is an MIT phrase meaning “having too much to do and ... trivia question. Our goal was to find these signs, record the number and question, and report back to the picnic spot in less than an hour. GEL

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the top 20 Scrabble players in the country, and ... the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for running up five flights of stairs to get some Neosporin for me from one of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  11,231 Applications

  

  (this number will probably change slightly by the time we get to selection ... factual errors, it does also correctly state that we have seen a rise in both domestic and international applicants. We have received greater than

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  Taylor's first decisively pop album and I was young enough to be easily ... . I entered the Broadway lottery and won a ticket to one of the less ... was so young and so ready to become the kind of person who lived in New

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  arriving there was no problem. Once there, we used a handy city map and made ... 21 years to make it even better and more efficient. I hope that the ... , it had only taken us 4 hours for Ling and I to get to Bao's apartment

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and ... was excited and promptly took a screenshot to share with everyone I knew. (You can read more about this work and others here) Then I went back to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012