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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  to the MIT Class of 2014!), that you're declining our offer of ... Hello MIT Class of 2014! Here are some things that admitted students ... MyMIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of the books Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and The Namesake (2003 ... Rhode Island, Lahiri spent some of her childhood in Boston and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  of image concerning my life at MIT: While true some of the time, I'd say that just as much of my time is spent feeling like this: ^^This ... all sorts of stuff happens, yes. These things are all awesome, but they

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I ... proudly sent out some photos of their robot without giving any context for ... all-nighters or close to it. I remember what that sort of thing was like

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  For those of you who commented in the last post or emailed me, thank ... of 175 juniors who are doing a college tour of New England. It was fun ... probably late October. Luckily, I've done so many of them, I can talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Mira Nair came to speak last year and kind of offered my friend a role in ... Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up ... film, Monkey Dance, is a documentary about the lives of three Cambodian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  - that I'll get faster with experience. I wish Matt would offer a seminar ... that it's taken me an hour to summarize and pull out all of the meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... Missouri. She's one of MIT's small-town and rural student ambassadors – part of the larger Small Town and Rural Student (STARS) Network, which aims

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... . Here we go!   A bit of background information before we dive in ... -dimensional person, which is what we strive to do with all the other parts of the

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  our last problem set of the year. I laughed, and felt my heart sink as I ... about what I am capable of. I pre-registered for six classes at the beginning of this semester. There was a CI-H, which I needed to take, but it

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  organization offered a snapshot of their own, unique chapters below. For those ... I am sure that many of you have read blogs about Greek life from some of our current all-star bloggers like Paul or even some of the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  When I was in preschool, we had to make a crayon drawing of what we ... exists, in some scrapbook in the back of the kitchen closet. I don ... 's book author to speak, and donated a copy of one of his books to all of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  for the most lucrative of offerings. E-mail concerns directly to ... bring the wrath of higher-ups raining down on the admissions office again ... ) Scared about repercussions c) A member of the MIT faculty d) Tempted to e

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... Learning Materials for Biology aka. THANK YOU MIT FOR OFFERING A CLASS (even

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  contradicts the previous one. I'm sick of being offered a limited-offer ... of my airline, or as high up as possible. My Good Sir, Have you ever ... back to your interviews and repeat, "We need to take excellent care of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  then I moved to Boston, where it wasn't 100 degrees from 8 am til dusk ... 't remember what it felt like anymore, just that I felt a bit of real fear at the thought of running five miles one morning. I would hope my roommates

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  past fall, just days after arriving on campus, a bunch of freshman girls ... reminded me of my own experience getting piercings my freshman year. To me, piercings are a rite of passage. Aside from being super cute, my piercings are

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  's just one more thing I just thought of yesterday: laundry. Where are the ... doing laundry is never a problem. The price of 75 cents per machine might ... Burton-Conner with loads of wash. Mitra used to say freshman year that at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... . tl;dr MIT has a surprising amount of options for taking care of your sexual health and contraception, most of which are free! Sexual Health at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  wonderful result, reflecting on the midpoint of a journey through MIT as well as a collection of significant places Mitali frequented. I hope you ... . But it’s also a bit of a comfortable spot to do some reflecting and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022