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• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... I’ve recently had a number of startling revelations: I’m almost ... -traveling music and hand waving.* MIT was my top choice and applying early action

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet ... station. The answer is yes! WMBR 88.1 FM, former winner of Best of Boston ... condition that WTBS-FM would apply for and receive new call letters. Turner

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  with kitchens instead of a dining hall, and a 10+ minute walk from any ... myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the fridge. Learning to cook was the one thing I hadn't crossed off all of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  While some of you have spent the last couple nights clutching admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been ... arrangement ever for my jazz class without being completely sure what two of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  mind but there are a lot of activities planned for parents too. Obviously ... suggested events to attend and tips on making the most of your CPW experience. Parent’s Hospitality Lounge Grab a cup of coffee or tea and chat with

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  ’s quite the event: Shot of the MIT crowd, courtesy of Maude Gull ‘19 Women ... comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it ... than any other DIII university. We call ourselves the Engineers. Our

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of ... awkwardly inline. As fun as it is to play outside, the time-honored sport of crufting (see: crvfting) is an important part of daily life at MIT. Although

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  doors to Boston University’s Metcalf Hall. Along with the hundreds of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... people who want to set up businesses or avail themselves of other economic

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  with many of the parent events during the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can get the most of your time on ... Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  distance of 77 Massachusetts Avenue uneaten at, pardon the grammatical ... than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  My employer recently sent me to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women ... -dominated field. It was also a chance to get a selfie with CTO of the United States ... 'm kinda old.  I graduated 1.5 years ago, and originally applied to MIT in

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  university abroad, but instead of studying (and doing psets and taking classes ... list recently offered a free trip to Mexico, in exchange for a week of ... research, I have ascertained that MIT has one of the best global programs of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College. At MIT ... we don’t normally think of entropy as applying to mathematical ... the 2600-Year History of the University, Online Learning Resources from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  corner of the universe. I guess the real magic was the friends we made ... digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don ... ) "On the 14th of March, MMXXV, The High Elders foretold a cursed

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  Barclays Global Investors completed PhD at University of Michigan-Ann Arbor ... program, beginning postdoctoral research at the University of Pittsburgh ... Like many universities, MIT has an alumni magazine that it sends to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  cause us to take back our offer of admission, but slipping too much could ... .) ------------------------------------- KIM wrote: "Do you know the number of kenyans applying to mit this year ... profile which gives us a bunch of info (courses offered, range of grades

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  been a slacker blogger, stuck deep in procrastination universe. Time to ... replace most English exclamations, expressions of feelings, and terms. And ... . ‘18, who also approved the title of this post) Yikes! This is the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  , MISTI, career fairs - MIT offers a lot of resources, but you have to take ... . None of the above are universal rules. Pass/No Record is a time to find ... Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  amazing universities, many of which don't have any Nobels to their name. The ... Like many of you, I stayed up quite late watching the election ... , including the Tremulant concert at TT the Bear's Place (one of the many, many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  basically they invite a bunch of college students from different universities ... artist in Taiwan who's at NTU (National Taiwan University). Impressions of ... So Matt McGann, who's actually a fan of Taiwanese TV shows in secret

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008