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  International Selection Day 1

  

  a selection committee meeting: it was the first day of international ... conclude selection of the international class. Relatedly, I had a great ... -Fair (International Fair), one of my favorite (and yummiest!) events of the year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it ... . Because school systems vary outside of the U.S. and many international ... you submit the results of any external examinations, such as
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool--down-to-earth and yet on the cutting-edge with a hint of a retro sensibility. Favorite ... of a small town--one of the best places to live on this planet, really

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  Bertuccis Brick Oven Pizzeria is the Breadsticks of Cambridge, MA. This is ... dinner a few months ago, Bertucci’s was the obvious choice of venue. It ... variety of engineering disciplines because so many of my classes are in the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  insane amount of activities happening regularly, the short answer is yes ... Mikey, our director of selection, who has experienced the same doubts ... can afford MIT. We know that the cost of MIT factors into most students

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  Massachusetts resident and I divided up the labor so that I'm in charge of ... represent the American Astronomical Society as part of the Congressional Visits D- Man: Okay, the scheduler is currently out of her office, but I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  architecture, people, and events representative of life at MIT.   The ... rigorous research facility and one of the best universities in the world, but there's more to the institute than numbers. The goal of this project is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  , there's a class called 2.009 that is one of the Mechanical Engineering ... .....what's that? Can we enhance the image? Hmm the back of that head looks ... product showcase at the end of term in front of hundreds of industry experts

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  skills. BUT - I'm NOT in charge of the mail. Our processing ... Hey Everyone -   Alot of questions and stress about documents and such on the blogs the last few weeks. Things like: "

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Enjoying the Little Things In which I ramble about happiness and taking breaks

  

  In lieu of posting about any huge on-campus events or grandiose life-changing moments (of which I've had none in the past two weeks, to my knowledge), I ... any pictures in the vlog, but here are some that Rachel took of cool

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo

  

  For context, Tetazoo is the name of the cat friendly hall that I live ... "]slither.[/annotation] Without further ado, here are the furry fish of Tetazoo: [carousel ... number of residents who identify as furries"]furry residents

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes ... all of my classes.  After genuinely considering changing my major at the ... field of Computational Geometry) are both wonderful lecturers and the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  climates have streams that are dry or have low flow most of the year and can ... semesters in classes like 1.050, 1.035 and 1.036 learning the fundamentals of ... the future (I am heading into a little sub-field of civil engineering

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  be for the next few days and weeks. So though I've got a bunch of ... , who was admitted to the class of 2015, is a professional yoyo-ist. Yoyo-er. The man has serious skills with a yoyo. He's already got plenty of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  mail. It's not a weird as it sounds, I promise). At the end of the unit, the kids got to make flat versions of themselves and the teacher had them mail them to people they knew outside the city. I was, of course

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, all the way from Madrid, Spain, I bring you: a totally useless sneak peak of Orientation. This is ... director of MIT-Spain is in Madrid, and all of the interns are meeting for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  , although very little in the way of concrete thought. Here are a few of those ... ’re painfully unaware of the world but slowly beginning to realize how little you ... individual blades of grass and refracting the morning light, ephemeral steam

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... to name the feeling of cool tenderness on my tongue, my entire mouth ... . I entered the Broadway lottery and won a ticket to one of the less

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  explore a new area of interest within the fields of planning and ... topics in the future. The project: The project explored concepts of ... integrated research and design office under the Chair of Architecture and

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  fun of me. So, in your opinion, what is the most important world news event from the month of June 2006? This entry is actually about pictures from Nice, but one of the Bahn stations in München is called Freiheit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006