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• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple ... quite good, and I have earned a complete scholarship for attending the ... Financial Aid. The last thing that may be an issue of going away from home

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  Beats from the Playground, Vol. 3 MIT has a set of it's own astronauts as ... grade, just thought I'd share. Mollie, maybe Adam wants to make this the ... back then, except I didn't wear glasses. The Rap: "Neil Armstrong is

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  around the desert, drinking up the sight of [annotation note="the tall ... the pages of a book I last picked up in middle school, on a certain ... . Stuck in the confines of my house, the familiar tracks in my mind. I like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  of the loaf to share, letting its flakes fall to the ground between us ... really, for how quickly it was dredged up again, like the structure of a dream you’re reminded of after waking—how the back-and-forth of our voices

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  are pretty cool, and have been discussed at least since the time of ... Mersenne primes. Also, I expect that the number of applications we received ... ,550,336 applications). Leave your guesses in the comments, and good luck!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  The i3 project features all 11 of MIT's dorms. The preliminary housing ... funding for the very first i3 project, and several of my very close friends were the "fathers/mothers" of the project. I'm happy to see it continue

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  keep going down this road At the beginning of senior year, I began ... Boston and work in industry? Never mind the question of what industry I ... one, knowing that the action of choosing will change me in an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  about your future. Then write a song about it. Preferably in the style of ... through the next 6-ish days! Hope your Thanksgivings were full of food and ... friends on the fourth floor have Guitar Hero II) was part of the reason this

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  , in exchange for helping take down what's left of the wallpaper in her ... had planned to go to the dinner mob of Nick "Nim" Martin '03, another 5 ... Coolidge Corner Theater to watch a showing of episodes of the 1999 TV show

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  course, I also spent a good chunk of time in lab working on my final ... for an away competition!"]a record 7 of us[/annotation] on the MIT ... off campus and enjoy the fall foliage and change of scenery. Saturday

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  trips to Denmark and the UK, when she encountered lots of people who made ... sequel to Junior Lab). In the spirit of peer review, each of us has to read ... corner of the couch and work on debugging code for my UROP. 6:15 p.m. We

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  be doing instead of this class: reading The New Yorker talking ... The New Yorker.[/annotation] taking pictures of black holes ... the idea of only being in four classes, or forty-eight units, when

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  with those of the people around me. I'd be lying if I said that none of ... could choose my friends instead of spending the whole day around the same ... -judgemental.) REX was one of the best weeks of my life. I found an awesome friend

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do I complete the visa section on the application?

  Only students who currently hold a visa complete this section of the application. The International Students Office assists all admitted students through the visa application process in May.
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  -shortening chemicals, I wrestled down the nightmare-inducing plethora of health concerns ... , choking on flying needles of acid precipitation, battled onwards across the Harvard Bridge. As I approached the threshold of drowning, I flinched away

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  for the MCAT (which demands quite a lot of time), I'm still willing ... , numbers and one-upmanship equivalent of the "Not necessarily being the ... the basis of at least 2-5 points on a test or exam, or whoever pulled

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable ... the latest issue of Blender magazine (Bright Eyes and Rilo Kiley in the ... discussion that may sound all too familiar to regular readers of the blogs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  from my freshman year. It was early December, 2011: the flame wars of dining-discuss@ were still fresh in the minds of undergraduates[1], yolo ... the foundation of MIT's online education efforts, was still a couple

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  usually feel better than complete posts because the process of completion removes uncertainty, and in doing so shrinks the realm of possibility for ... empathize with the state of mind of not wanting to commit because you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  . Luckily all of the time commitments are fun so I'm enjoying it. Toy design ... , presented the concept, and built a model of it. Using everybody's models and ... 's still kind of a nice look into the lab. Click To Play   This

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008