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  [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 ... the Infinite Corridor and shines along its entire length. This is known ... is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to

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

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2028. This is an open forum for you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will survive ... : stove-cook your oatmeal and never look back. If you want to talk to us in

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2027. This is an open forum for you to talk, shake it off, and remember that you will ... and never look back. If you want to talk to us in the comments below, we

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  With the Regular Action deadline just days away, I want to wish all the best to the regular action applicants in finishing up their application materials. Try to get it done soon so you can have a rockin' New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  ’t wait. 21M.600: Intro to Acting. This is kinda just a taking-it ... group for TEAL is SUPER GREAT. Big ++. 6.08: Introduction to EECS via ... that this class is going to kick my ass, but in a good way. This class

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  to use. Cartography is still very much a thing. It's okay to not be ... circle really is a lot larger than I often perceive it to be. I will ... do my part in trying. A smile can go a long way. It is not my job to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  10) to schedule your interview is fast approaching! You can find the ... is the last acceptable testing date for MIT. Be sure to designate MIT ... If you are applying to MIT this year, here's an update on what you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  making it hard to blog right now. So, in order to not have to migrate n ... Charles in frustration over these EE bugs, this post is going to carry us ... , ExpressionEngine, is, like my mom's 16 year old minivan with 250,000 miles on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update The title says it all.

  

  Well, Mystery Hunt is in full swing, and let me tell you, it is quite the adventure. I just took a quick trip back to my room so I could grab ... other teams are still working on it! But it's so awesome to be working

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  conversation is refreshing" because he quickly got to asking bread-and-butter questions, to which it takes longer than 10 seconds to process and formulate ... now... In any case, it's easy to get lost in the details of MIT as a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  counselor claims that because it is a selective english school with a harsh grading system it would be unfair on me to compare my grades here to those ... disadvantage, is it even allowed ?" We always want a transcript of your grades

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  anybody who is legendary for his ability to "diagnose" an applicant, it ... "fair" as much as it matters that they "work", which is to say that they ... measured not by what it is but by what it does, which is of course to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  at MIT. While it is normal to be disappointed, do NOT let that ... feeling dreadful that I would have to wait another 2 months, and treated it ... it was I wanted out of college, taught me to be able to see myself

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  ) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster ... get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if ... the art of being hosed's not too hard to master though it may look like

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  from place to place. I'm dead serious. --- Happy May! Yay. It's the final month of school! Somehow, I can't believe this year is coming to an ... out, is National Reply Date. It had been a pleasure sharing what I know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  figured a simulator is a good place to do it.  Until I saw a shiny, shiny ... myself to the controls. First thing I noted was that it was different from ... noticed was DANG THIS THING IS SENSITIVE. I was used to rather dramatic

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  being annoying to those around me under the guise of it having no repercussions turned out to bite me in the proverbial butt. Thus is the beginning ... know (which, admit it, is what most high school homework is), the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  ’t believe it! MIT is like this entirely new planet in which I am yet to ... on the other hand, is not a rectangle (in fact it feels like the most un-rectanglulary shaped campus I have ever seen). It is also not a

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke ... that, I might as well add "GET OFF CAMPUS" to it, to keep myself from ... "Let someone else do it." No joke. Anyway, I'm going to get back to my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  each other. I've been inspired by this statement since I got to MIT. It's incredibly refreshing to see that the rest of the office is inspired by it too ... " section: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it's as if we

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004