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  Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.

  

  if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Welcome to Round ... 's taking with an upside-down pen So - what's going on in this picture? As always, points will be awarded for creativity, not just for the right

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Alia Burton ‘05 Name: Alia Burton; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

  

  : Philadelphia, PA High school: Philadelphia High School for Girls College: MIT ... class and do research in any department; "nerdiness" and quirkiness aren ... show through in your essay(s). Share your goals, interests and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  asking the aide in that politician's office that they worked for to write ... who I just spent New Years with in Virginia, for example, was a ... lot of mail. At least a dozen buckets of mail came in this morning, on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of ... serious reading. In the meantime, we'll contnue with our other work, including wrapping up our fall travels, developing more content for the my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is EECS?

  undergraduate and graduate students to become leaders in diverse career fields ... World Report rankings and is known globally for its world-class faculty ... homes in four major affiliate labs: the Computer Science and Artificial
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... doesn't have any impact on admission decisions. In fact, a large percentage of students at MIT end up majoring in something other than what they
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  You may track the progress of your application in the application ... student's application—all materials have to be processed. We ask for seven ... 're happy to check receipt of items if you allow sufficient time for
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  exited heaviest-coat-in-the-closet weather (and are now entering bring ... athletics facilities for a while now, so I think this is the perfect time to ... learned for everyone, especially during this tour today – whether you’re a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  , I was fixing for a crepe late last week and strolled in to Sebastians ... for an awesome creperie in the Cambridge/Boston area continues. In a ... continue searching! In the meantime, for the crepe connoisseurs in the crowd

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  , fans who ventured to Manchester in the storm for the Monarch's game on ... . They buy blocks of tickets for events in the Boston area and offer them ... When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  me, not that he took my exam and then handed it in. Of course, that would have actually worked out really well for me because Adam is in his ... until 2 AM, whereupon I started my problem set and studying for my German

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  So... tonight is the fateful night for millions of Harry Potter fans ... I be doing for the big release? Let me tell you about some of the Boston/MIT-area parties. At Newtonville Books in Newton (a Green Line trip

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  send things a group chat would be used for, like "psetting in the tvl ... about frozen. this was to set up the stage for when, in late september ... back in glounge. the practice persisted for weeks. by then, when jack

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  were 757 undergraduate students alone enrolled in Course 6-3 for the Fall ... people I've met who are 6-3 (which is... a lot) aren't in it solely for the ... and give up on Course 18), and my feelings for MIT in general were at an

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  Ceri and Chris for organizing the blog anniversary and see you all in ... I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  When MIT Students Blew Up the Sun For a fun prank in 1992, MIT ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is globally renowned for ... alumni club living in the Charles River in an effort to convert MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  performed: Here in Your Arms: Thanks to Sam '12 for uploading this second video for me :-). 2) Battle of the Bands In this event, I ... ’12. We snuck around for most of the game, until we were deep in red

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  was pleasantly surprised to be around 4th row in GA pit for 5sos. I ... that non-concert goers may never understand is waiting. I wait in line, a LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  hell as well—i locked myself in my room for a whole week to study. masha ... fall, even in spite of my tremendous workload, made me want to spend time ... time alone, which is why when all my friends left for the holidays, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  This semester I’ve lived in an apartment with three roommates: one omnivore, one vegetarian, and one vegan. I decided on the day we moved in ... ’t hard: we cook for each other, which means that dinners are vegan, and I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020