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  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  my dorm just in time for the big day. I dug around in my closet for the ... walked around campus for a few hours feeling like the coolest person in the ... ran into each other on line waiting for skates, introduced ourselves in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  is completely true: we are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers. As we say in our "Preparing For MIT ... We had our reading season kickoff meeting today, which checked in at

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  competitive for another wonderful opportunity: the Davidson Fellows scholarship program. Sponsored by the good folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent ... creation in the fields of Science, Mathematics, Technology, Music, Literature

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  Mathematics (HCSSiM) Honors Summer Math Camp (HSMC) Program in Mathematics for ... chose for the majority of my summers in high school. Reading, doing sports ... further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  for it, and then I somehow got involved in a gang fight in a supermarket ... So I was really tired last night. I’d been in northern Michigan ... been skiing or snowboarding or just plain cold for more than 20 minutes

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Additional Questions & Answers Regarding Music At MIT If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college,…

  majors. There are no pre-requisites for membership in our ensembles, other ... to them in a given ensemble for the upcoming semester. The faculty will ... participating in an ensemble for credit. If one is participating in MITSO, Wind

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Online Decisions = YES Some great news.

  

  (the system is unable to display decisions for those who applied in Early ... ). What is the process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order ... available online in addition to the standard postal mailing. We expect to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  MIT paid for it. Also, I remembered that days in Germany are supposedly ... DID YOU KNOW? Upon hearing one of Bach's motets late in his life ... was nice, and the jacket in that material was also pretty hot. But Heidi

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  SIS. :-( [In all honesty, I'm actually really looking forward to this semester ... for a while.] The double :-( :-( is my Friday. 2 - 4 pm ... techniques for observation and measurement of physical variables such as force

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a ... choosing to make Khan Academy non-profit: "What's a home run in the for ... opening reception for the spring exhibits in the List Visual Arts Center

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  applicants we have admitted in the past. One quality that we look for in all ... been active in summer programs. For some students, summer programs (see ... I've been promising an entry specifically for homeschooled applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  will have 12 in total (one for each piece type and color == 2x pawn, 2x ... in a precomputed table. For jumping pieces, this is easy since we don ... actually loop through all possible occupancy states like so: for i in 0

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  friends, fix things in my house promptly, study for interviews and apply to ... a constant in my life for as long as I can remember, and added ... have been doing for a long time in the interest of my academics- picking

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  comes in and says hello and it also is officially a staff member for 034 ... came in so I used the time to catch up on some reading for my classes ... on the use of timelines and time and its role in setting the theme for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarships

  

  community organizations, but I didn't put in the effort that I should have for ... for the past few months. First, for some students, there are early ... complete. And finally, there's the scrambling to apply for scholarships

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  was the music for "All In Green Went My Love Riding," my final project for 21M.303: Writing in Tonal Forms 1. The class is traditionally taught ... class. I was in for quite a surprise when I showed up on performance day

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  things that come to mind when we think of a "good job," for example, in ... and l'IUP in Paris. So far, we've done word associations and sentence completions, where we at MIT enter (in English) what first comes to mind when we

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  to watch out for rainstorms in the spring (or any time, for that matter ... Omega 6". In other words, it's good for you and it's definition is an ... In a conversation I was having with my good buddy, Quinton, today

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing ... time to login to MyMIT and make sure everything is in! To recap, you may send your missing documents in via: Docufide Fax at 617

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  for the admissions officers, that’s for sure... Of course, in 1918 ... collection, for each year in MIT's history. The books aren't just about science ... Like Bellamy’s young hero, I too am back in Boston. Except its been

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011