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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  programs to which I've applied, and since many of the programs are Far Away ... The ADD recap of my Christmas break: Ohio. California. Maine. I am ... Swapna '05, at least I had internet cafes. To all of you on dialup, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google ... , you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing this out) Freshman year, one of my classes was actually taught by former

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Red Sox *wwooooossshhhh!*

  

  sounded like a bunch of fighter jets just flew by, another benefit MIT has to offer: front row seats to fly-overs. [Update] Yeah, I think there has to be a game, because I just heard the last little bit of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 7, 2009
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What summer programs are available?

  MIT doesn't offer a traditional open-enrollment summer school program ... the dorms. There are a number of small, specialized summer programs on campus, but they're not run by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Most
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide CSS Profile waivers?

  Some students of certain incomes are able to have the their CSS Profile fees waived by the College Board. MIT is not able to offer a fee waiver directly. If the cost of the CSS Profile poses financial difficulty
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  for most of the five years before I finally applied. Needless to say it ... experience the journey of applying from another (your) side. Please comment ... time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  scares me. I'm from Oregon, I'm applying next year, and that's not a lot of ... going to affect me at all when I apply? Also, I've taken a lot of ... conclusion of my EMT class and random dinner parties with friends. About

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  end of campus to another, such as from Tang Hall to the Sloan School of Management, it would be a [annotation note="Which is about the length of 12 ... .[/annotation]  That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  , technical rules of mechanics, heat, and motion apply, but only after we ... If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd ... . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  Students who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed more than two and a half years (five terms) of college may not be eligible because of our residency requirements. If you have been enrolled in college
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  though of how everything around us was “designed.” I took 2.97 during IAP of 2011. I am currently more and more involved with classes that ... . Design is applied art. It is Design Museum Boston’s goal to show

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  . Full disclosure, I didn’t get admitted into any of the schools I applied ... about as I was exactly two years ago? Some of you probably are. Some of ... of writing excessive amounts of fanfiction, so I was pretty excited to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  preperations, and on top of ALL of THAT, you are applying to college. Whewww ... between. My trip was a lot of fun! I saw the Pacific Ocean…… ….got lost ... in the right direction….. ……eventually found the Hollywood Walk of

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  University of Pennsylvania, which had recruited me for their creative writing ... don't offer the financial stability of an established company. But even ... break of eighth grade, and my family was on a vacation visiting the East

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  , University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and Princeton. Ironically, every girl that ... their kids start going to school. Many of them believe that a woman must ... mediocrity in both. In fact, 60% of interviewed students said that they planned

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  been plunged untethered into the center of the universe, submerged in a ... thought the whole world should cater to the dominance of their own language ... -baked strategy was to affect a sort of sheepish self-awareness—as I butchered every

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  will ever exist in the entire universe--but after three years of problem ... DID YOU KNOW? Norah Jones is the daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar. So I've got a photographic record of picturesque Barcelona, but I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  --Steam Cafe offers two of each per day, one vegetarian and one meat. They change ... chocolate cake, a French pasta salad (huh?) and a metric ton of scallion pancakes made by Ling '07, who hails from Taiwan by way of New Jersey. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  big university in Tokyo that's pretty famous for taking a lot of foreign ... of study in that university (this test is usually later, in February or ... popular in Japan. There is usually very little mention of Lilo, however. 52

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  -down triangle. Alan Guth, father of a theory describing the early universe and my ... A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... of portraits of the 67 individual resident physicists. Each poses in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012