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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried ... ancient art form. One heavily-emphasized aspect of the class was “safety ... compensating by drinking copious amounts of water isn’t working anymore. Suddenly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  Keuhne (professional golfer who attended the University of Texas) Right now, many of you have probably procrastinated on making one of (what you ... -seeded basketball team. You're probably receiving pressure and advice from tons of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  separate according to density and the initial degree of intermixing**. Voila ... Amidst a Dali-esque landscape of finals-related drudgery and holiday travel rushes (think The Persistence of Memory, but imagine unfinished

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  manatees. (You have to kind of tilt your head at something like a 270 degree ... up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples in the Kansai area. Since a good percentage of the interns are working

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Class of 2026, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered early ... MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now ... , but still well above our pre-pandemic baseline of ~9,000 EA applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their ... my feet to quickly realize that I don't know much of anything, really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was ... don’t feel out of my depth. Chris is starting his PhD in the fall, making him the latest among my exes to pursue a STEM doctorate degree. My

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  i. The days wheeled past like a flock of starlings, and suddenly ... like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... somebody else will take care of my life. iii. This is my theory about age

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rainboots, Math, and M&M’s Because I have a bunch of little stories to tell, not one big one.

  

  like stepping confidently into the center of a deep puddle, knowing your boots are totally impervious to the wet. Except maybe the joy of strutting ... 18. get it?) The value of i choose 18 is (34376687 + 1499084559 i

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  Today marks the end of a four-day weekend. Traditionally, extended weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets ... procrastination, as it was 70 degrees with cloudless skies all weekend! I plotted my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  and headed southwest. Assuming a trajectory of 42.6 degrees for said ... process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT ... decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles ... much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  . Of all of the hundreds (thousands?) of classes offered at MIT, three of ... Yes, I've read a bunch of books since my last post. No, I didn't feel ... -epiphany where I kind of sort of maybe started thinking about majoring in 2A

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2007 Numbers, numbers, numbers.

  

  we offer a plethora of numbers for any statistical junkie. Recently, we ... quick summary of what you'll find... Freshman Applications 12,445 Freshman ... % score range of admitted students: SAT Reasoning Test - Critical Reading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year ... "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the ... you as it might have been for my (pre-internet) generation of college

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist who ranked MIT but was not matched still apply for EA and/or RA?

  offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of your ... students, regardless of citizenship. If admitted to MIT through the Quest
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  Offering of Quantum Mechanics II), usually a fall course, can now also be ... See the original version of this post on the Office of Digital ... in an Institute-wide effort to translate traditional course offerings

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process ... give you money. Advocates of legacy admission, like advocates of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  , as of January 15, 2010, happens to be my major. Generally, MIT students declare their major at the end of their first year; however, each December, the registrar sends out letters to some freshmen, offering them

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of the people who help make up the MIT Class of 2015: 3 of the 4 Gold Medalists at the 2011 International Biology Olympiad (all of them young women

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011