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  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  interviewer's information by logging in to your MyMIT account. If you have ... interviewer's information, contact interview at mit dot edu for assistance ... considered for MIT's Early Action and/or Regular Action processes (or

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  below doesn’t cover all of Tuesday’s events, or even all of the dorms that ... House’s Lego Minifigure Hunt and the rest of my REX in my room playing ... school’s dorms and interact with as wide a variety of your new classmates

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  in the late 1980s. Worked with Professor Jim Elliot and Ted Dunham to ... New Horizons mission. She's been studying Pluto since the 80's, helping ... (SwRI) working with NASA’s New Horizons Mission. She has a blog called

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  two meals every day. Maseeh’s minimum freshman plan is the “Full 19 ... Boston’s many fine restaurants when tethered with economic obligation to ... . Purchasing a walk-in dinner will cost $14, (that’s almost two entire Chipotle

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

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

  

  some of the weirdest questions he’s received. The book itself is about an ... event at Harvard’s Brattle Theatre. This was announced last spring, and I ... as either of those, but to MIT students, he’s just as prestigious. So I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of ... alone. It’s hard to value companionship until you’re starved of it, and ... she’s one heck of a screamer. The week I spent with my uncle and his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  on the waitlist? No, because it's not ranked. We will reconsider ... . Please don't try to draw a trend line from 3 points - it's ... here? True story: it's likely that most people on the waitlist will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  themselves quite as seriously. People have a sense of humour. There’s not much sense in political news coverage about whether a story is important. There’s ... , it’s difficult." (answering my question about what the transition from

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  winter. TBS’s new reality show King of the Nerds features two people from ... day and you know you won’t get any homework done when he’s around because you’ll be too busy laughing and being happy. Now he’s at Vanderbilt

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  . “You have no idea,” he told me, “how often I asked [insert Math Major’s ... -be 2016s and to-be 2017s (AHHHH 2017? I'M SO OLD), and when one of them is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  basis (but which never actually happens in reality). Top 40s producers ... value approaching 1, meaning an overall S value approaching infinity? Also ... . Anyway, Robyn (yes, the one that sang this song in the 90's) was going to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  dinner with some '08s who are now full-time techies in San Francisco, and ... example, that Sam's initials are S.A.M. We also talked about Real People ... , and I actually ended up taking over a '10's lease when he decided to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  know that it's good for you to do the same. It’s the best way for them to ... lots of questions. It’s the way our students learn and will work well for ... would be in the Parent’s Hospitality Lounge. Grab a cup of coffee or tea

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... my friend Megan B.’s ’12 excitement (she is one of the few ... work, not just research. I can’t believe it’s only October, and I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  school students." M.I.T.'s bloggers, who are paid $10 an hour for up to ... ‘Why should I go to M.I.T.' list." M.I.T.'s student bloggers said they ... Jones, the former director of communications at M.I.T.'s admissions office

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  't function anymore and cassettes were getting hard to find), a cassette of '60s-'70s Oldies songs (they were - and still are - my parents' favorites), a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  90s. I thought that this meant I just had to work a little harder, but ... back. Their scores were fine, high 80s and 90s. Some were complaining

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  example, 2003's "The Recruit," where Colin Farrell's CIA trainee character ... students team up and the 2s build while the 6ers program)" Probably, we ... '12 Says Kayla, "Two MIT '12s in MIT gear. :D (no book though, sorry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  how long it would take the '12s to notice. We wandered into line and ... 11 people gathered: '11s Michelle Yours truly '12s Allison Jean Paul

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  ’m saying is that there’s a lot more to life than getting all your homework ... , but I guess it’s too late for that. I would definitely explain this on ... performed by MIT’s Shakespeare Ensemble, and it rocked pretty hard, in my own

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006