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  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  semester, a different hall bands together to provide some sort of creative ... Much FAC," where we made personalized cakes for each of the ten halls of ... East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and ... bombing one of them could bring my score down almost irreparably. So while ... stress out about the consequences of not understanding well enough, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  than 400 people applied, a selection rate of less than 6%. The ... Yesterday, the Thiel Foundation announced the first class of the "20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows." Though actually numbering 24, all of the Fellows

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  will be in Japan next (and it's only open two months out of the year ... ,388 ft). It is an active volcano and a well-known symbol of Japan that is ... devouring bowls of chicken, eggs and rice, and buying a backpack cover that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  AHHH CPW!!! Was the name of my last blog post I wrote prior to CPW last year, and it is, once again, that time of year! This year I'd like ... of every second of CPW by meeting your prospective classmates and doing

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or vice versa). I am, however, going to co-op the term to also apply to the ... current crop of graduating seniors but is also engaged with the the next

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high ... , and it definitely still applies now. I wrote an open letter about how I ... tens of other posts written by tens of other bloggers instead of being so

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  offer with a pretty number. Of who I would become if I accepted. People ... I've spent most of this summer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, staying ... dryer. The ends of my hair have withered and splintered, and my face has

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  when other people offer them to you, like almost all of the guys I ... Today in Boston it was 41 degrees Fahrenheit and rainy. Random Hall ... her family, and several smaller Thanksgivings branching off of it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.

  

  admitted 540 students for an admit rate of 11%, or fewer than one of every ... . Most students who applied to MIT in early action this year were excellent ... speak for all of the admissions officers when I say that this has been a

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  If you are applying to MIT this year, here's an update on what you ... understand that we can't be everywhere!] Even if you are applying elsewhere via ... community, consider sending in some of your work. If you are interested in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  chances of ever entering an American university, and assisted an elderly man ... language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... culture, a sense of history and background that I simply did not possess or

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and the Public Interest. It's a longstanding handbook of the admissions profession, and one of those texts that reads basically as true today as it did

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  ) tried to strengthen ties with the University of Zambia (UNZA ... . Instead, we spent more time in the capital city of Lusaka, where we: 1) met ... condition (e.g. "In 2000, an estimated 73% of the population lived below the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  :30pm Kresge Auditorium - MIT - FREE In celebration of Black History ... !! "Pulse: Waves From the Motherland" is a demonstration of the extent to which Africa has influenced art of all kinds and, with this influence

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le ... Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ ... graduation/4th of July decorations were on sale, but I chose to look forward

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  Content Note: This post contains mentions of death, depression, and ... of MIT students this fall, the characters talk about two types of ... feel happiness or pleasure. It is described as a type of numbness, a numb

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  it for my hands/to re-apply throughout the day. All of these are korean ... the clothes they’re wearing, or the things they buy. Of course, this ... true that most people have a degree of choice in what they purchase or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  applied, as you might recall, because I applied out of spite.) It's a little ... Museum of Fine Arts (MIT students get in free! Can't beat culture for free ... now, the real stuff A common concern voiced about applying to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  hold the first copy in my hands. Those of you who will be applying next ... entire year. Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw the first proofs for the final book. I was blown away

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006