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  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  . Every student in the MyMIT database is assigned an alumni interviewer, aka Educational Counselor (EC). The interview itself is usually conducted in your ... EC directly, and the contact information is listed in your My

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  , and started her ascent to stardom by starring in the Abercrombie & ... to Lost Evie above).We'll have winners in each category. The rules: Remember, Peggy is my favorite pig in the world. No demeaning or defacing her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  Please remember that January 1 is the submission deadline for ... strongly discourage procrastination. The closer you send in your application to the deadline, the longer it will take our records office to process

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW Weather Machine Strikes Again a frivolous day in the sun and grass

  

  -making process (the part where he explains his thoughts leading up to using vinegar to slow the breakdown of pectin in the potatoes is pretty cool). As ... The weather sobered up just in time for CPW, and we celebrated the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  . David is off to the CUNY Honors College next year. The STS awards ... think a big part of that is it's not really in the nature of the science ... in the Science Times wondering who is "the next Einstein." Could it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Glass Flowers A trip to Harvard to see the glass flowers (8 pictures)

  

  ?). Early this morning, some friends and I went to the Harvard Museum of Natural History We went mainly to see the Blaschka Glass Flowers ... (independently) were expecting glass flowers like at the Bellagio. Not so much

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just A Small Town Girl Blogging in an awesome world.

  

  bizarre thing to get used to. But in addition to the people I met from ... liberal-artsyness is still intact even after coming to the institvte). I ... and class to go to. In the meantime, tell me what you guys want to know

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  , is the first person in his family to attend college. A graduate of MIT ... accomplishment are already evident in the class: Sarah Dupuis of New Preston, Conn ... will change the world. Hailing from Moraga, Calif., Bjornson-Hooper is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... win!) in Tucson next April. And late last week, the entire Aero ... students looking up to them from the audience. Then Michael Collins stands up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  the most time-efficient way to consume Helth.   Shrimp Scampi I ... in, honestly. Shakshuka   This has got to be one of the ... an alternative to pressing the water out of tofu with a heavy object is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... this week in addition to writing the paper and making figures; mostly I ... author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  screwed as I thought I was. To celebrate w/ me is the MIT cheerleading squad ... I have nothing but analysis left to do for the last Junior Lab experiment for the rest of the week. I went to the gym today, I'll probably go

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  The Proposal One part hack + two parts romance = Lobby 7 love!

  

  . For example, last week, some people constructed the following to ... "hacks" (if you can call it that) occured on May 20th, 2004 -- right in the ... his true actions: designing, building, and executing the most

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  Transnational Cultures. Video of the latter is available in the Language Learning ... ; Ashima's first years of marriage in America; the Ganguli's trip to India ... Last Friday, I went to the AMC Cambridge to see the big

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  around to call for climate justice. At MIT, and other schools in the area ... 180. The interviews, the formalities, the waiting in line to talk to a ... began to feel hopeful. For one of the first times in my life, I stopped in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  vaccine has on other people. In order to reach the socially optimal ... vaccine. (Open up the images in a new browser to see larger versions of ... So in my previous entry, I talked about how the Medlinks were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  is to please be patient as you watch the application tracking system on ... is more than 40,000 application pieces to be processed in a very brief ... As I write, our terrific Records Office team is processing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  colleague in London who studied the Y chromosomes of ancient Britains to infer ... something, because everyone else in the room went "mmmm!" very sagely, to ... site (didn't catch where). The guy next to me jutted in to ask how many

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  Infinite Corridor is perhaps too aptly named... After finding the Wikipedia-styled notification at the end of the Infinite, I challenged myself to find as many ... stepping down from the position. (I managed to cite my source there, at least

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Not admitted

  

  This year was the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting fewer than 13% of applicants means we had to turn away many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006