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  MIT Application Now Available here we go!

  

  You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman admission to MIT. MIT has its own application – we are not on the Common ... it to any non-required document you submit. If you are mailing

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  . It is eerie to see an open-grown oak surrounded and shadowed by firs ... The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read ... . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In ... been taking lately because it's IAP and THAT means FREE TIME (what IS ... , but it's over the span of three months). IAP is optional, but I'm trying

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  -approaching (actually, it's here. Oops), and I have to decide whether this is something I ... back in Boston. Too bad - it turns out that Florida is a pretty cool ... like it. I have a view of the Media Lab and of the construction next to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to ... mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  about class rank (her school is considering doing away with it), and I was ... article, it would probably be better not to rank... I just got a visit ... Thanks to reader Timur, who sent the bloggers some "holiday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  It’s a beautiful spring day here at MIT – the sun is peeking through ... athletics facilities for a while now, so I think this is the perfect time to ... -campus grocery store, it’s been fun to show off a little piece of what makes MIT so

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  4 years now. I'll be honest, I used to know a whole lot more about it, back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to explain what MIT is like, not so much to explain what admissions is like

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  street to the Kendall/MIT T station around 1:45 and easily made it to Logan ... Christmas, so it’s excusable, right? Cut to Line #2: Security. So I stood in ... name on my driver’s license is incorrect – I've been trying to get that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  CPW. It's going to be fun. One of my favorite things about CPW is that ... back from his trip to Italy) If your assigned host is back from Spring Break, expect to get a call/email from them tonight or tomorrow (you may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  that weekend, I sent an email to Baker Desk asking if I could pick it up ... walk over and turn it off. I sent an email to our area director ... got it sent to East Campus this time. And again, two days later, they

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  , it almost seems as if campus is constantly brimming over from the sheer ... finally roll around came close to how it felt to wait for admissions ... the opportunity to finally meet Langer! As it turned out, Professor

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  800, is it really fair that that is not even given a consideration? To ... formula, it's not public (in fact I don't even know what it is, to tell you ... -year report? Is it to make sure that students aren't slacking, or to cut people

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  . His advice is to "take your passion and follow through with it to the ... Education (INIE) program. Getting to work in MIT-NRL is an amazing opportunity ... /hour to over 50,000." He is quick to note, however, that "of course, safety

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  have? Do you have to do p-sets for Biology classes and if not, what is the homework like? Is it hard to get an internship during the summer? Is ... would like to give me to make it much easier on me? Okay, I'm out of dorky

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  grinning. I think it’s safe to say that orientation at MIT is not something ... because it pretty much entails every dorm trying to show off its culture in ... more about it, I’m beginning to realize that the reason I enjoyed my FPOP

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you ... it is. I found myself scrambling to take extra STEM classes or force a ... . There is no summa cum laude or overall GPA ranking because it is meant

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  surgeon. 9:28am: A parent's question: "How important is it to choose a major ... freshman year to make it easier to make the choice of major. It is diffucult ... campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  The things I do with my Friday afternoon Really, though - how could I resist?

  

  Building to my UROP in building 18 (oh look, it's that map again- the Green Building is 54, and the Dot is McDermott Court) to check on some cell ... lab to walk home. Either I'm not very observant, or someone acted

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 9, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  Court. It was due to this decision that I spent an hour and a half of this ... better if you guys were distracted in my stead. It is with this notion in ... ) hulu 5) Potter Puppet Pals! (Yes, I realize this is old, but it's funny

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010