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  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift ... as the theme for the Class of 2000 through the Class of 2005: The ... upon our class participation. The more members of our class who give, the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were ... the very best of luck wherever you choose to continue your education

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren ... )   Now the end of first semester was one of the most exciting and ... exhilarating. Let's look back at the two aspects of MIT and see how they applied

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread For Those Not Admitted

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were ... the very best of luck wherever you choose to continue your education

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  of the CME students are taking advantage of our 6 week winter break to do some heavy duty traveling. Some of the places include: Russia ... home in California for the rest of the break. I know, lame, but I spend

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  astounding!! i'm currently living near the MIT Museum, which is a couple of ... cheese"]Roxy's[/annotation] because of the distance, or when i'd UBER to ... worth it. i lived in Burton-Conner, the fourth dorm down Dorm Row, so i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Fall Hits MIT… in the form of a Giant Spider! I promise I'm not a blog-hog, this is just too good!

  

  Let's cut right to the chase: THERE'S A HACK IN 6C! Natanya ... a web! I've decided to name him Lucifer. He's huge! He has the ... couple babies! But how did the little spiders get all the way to Lobby 7

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  you ever been walking down the hall and caught a whiff of rotting flesh? Maybe heard the sounds of a shuffling creature behind you, limping and ... convenient and easily accessible form of defense. Some are oblivious to the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Spring Weekend Concert Announced: Fabolous and Lloyd Banks

  

  One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring Weekend," and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert ... cool events. On the Friday afternoon of every Spring Weekend, you'll find

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let ... MIT: Regressions, where I saw footage of Timothy Leary, the father of ... movement and learned of the Beatles' role in it. They not only helped

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nemo Found the effects of cabin fever

  

  The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly quickly. On Friday we watched the first half hour of half a dozen movies ... into a snowbank while taking pictures under the yellow cast of the street

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great ... 't quite empathize with the feeling of your whole life riding on a decision ... , or maybe I'm more apathetic than the average person in the face of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  wonderful exchange student from the University of Cambridge, Rob. An ... the help of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange (CME). I was intrigued, not only ... -20 different room layouts a year I'd say I'm a bit obsessed with the idea of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The ... you were admitted on the basis of your merit. So should you report your ethnicity or not? Of course you should! Despite all the stereotypes and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total number of admits, this year the number of early international admits doubled, decreasing the number of spaces remaining for international

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  spent most of the last week working on stuff for Campus Preview Weekend ... well over 600 events over the course of a few days, and the prefrosh add ... events, and generally makes this one of the most BAMF weekends on the East

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  the DCI site says: The goal of the Media Lab Digital Currency initiative ... important new area of research. The effort will reach across the MIT campus ... the DCI was established, the Media Lab hired three of the core

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  four-week term at MIT that fills the month of January. For more than 50 ... materials Beekeeping 101 Make it: Pinball Ikebana: The Art of Japanese ... in the big, wacky, comfortable chair called IAP. Sandwiched between the
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but ... you put your heart into writing the summary of someone's potential and ... that's not something I would say just for the sake of saying it. Don

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of the people who help make up the MIT Class of 2015: 3 of the 4 Gold Medalists at the 2011 International Biology Olympiad (all of them young women

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011