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  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  .2 miles per hour. By the end of this portion of the race, we finished second ... total of slightly over 1100 miles driven. By the end of the race, we took ... in the sky - we were able to get a lot of solar energy and perform

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  . i. By senior year of high school, I felt pretty human…   ... hearing test because I named the pitch of the note being played instead of ... labelled none of my perfectly plotted points and promptly got a 0. My mother

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  get all sorts of things at home before they come, but there are plenty of drug stores in the area, so unless you have a particular surplus of ... * provide toilet paper, and arguably, dispenser-style paper towels. (By

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of CPW. There will be several of us, including a MIT professor, talking about why this can be a really good idea.) So you got into one of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2025 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing process, rising first ... produced by students to show off the community, physical spaces, and unique traditions of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these I3

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  near and the pressure is on--but for all of you who are still typing away ... to say, take a look at admitsphere.org. Admitsphere was devised by a floormate of mine, Jacob Cole '14, along with Prabhav Jain '14 and Merry Mou

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online News about the 2011 Regular Action cycle.

  

  plan to send out any admissions decisions by mail, though admitted ... year. We admitted 1715 students for an admit rate of 9.6%, or fewer than one of every ten applicants. Because of the size and the strength of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  thicc squirrels Saturday [Nisha] By the third day in a row of waking up ... It so happened that my younger sister got accepted into the Class of ... ] I committed to MIT a couple of weeks ago, so my main goal at CPW was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  mail all of the letters together in the same batch; we hope to mail by ... With a difficult day and a half of selection behind me, I'm looking ... summaries of your applications, and now we take those summaries and work from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  know that this process can be a complicated one. For those of you who ... traffic in the tubes. Our transfer admissions process was quite competitive. As in past years, hundreds of students applied, and we only had space

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  , according to random people polled by Randommites outside of Random Hall ... stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me) I’ll give you a glitter fairy sticker and a sheet of bubble wrap. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  herd of sheep, who ran away from me — by running farther up the road, so ... with me tonight voices the entirety of her internal monologue aloud even ... ’m trying to be polite, hence being curled on the sofa outside of our room. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  described by is cunning, manipulative wit, resourcefulness, etc. There ... off because of the negative audience reaction to her. I think if you ... that the aggressiveness was sort-of how she wanted to be perceived with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  the opportunities, resources, and culture on campus. In particular ... ! (Check out some photos and videos from Ebony Affair here on the Class of ... plane I was immediately texted by an admissions officer who was waiting by

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep debt that I've accumulated over the course of my entire life ... it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  afraid to take advantage of that resource (and thank them afterwards ... television of our youth. guilty as charged). Because I graduated a little over ... : While you may not navigate a nostril, or surf through a river of lava with

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  limited by the amount of energy you are willing to expend. Walking from the ... not an expert by any means on any of these things. Whatever I have ... The Introduction This is only part of a comprehensive guide I hope

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  letter has not shown up as processed by the application deadline, do not ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... and running away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  . Actually, I knew a lot of people who would be there, so I figured I'd stop by ... tape purse. Most people dealt with lack of pockets by simply leaving ... exactly what it sounds like. I personally had no intention of going, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005