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  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio ... it, my mouth had stopped moving. It’s their turn now. I have to admit

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  , and with my second season of reading applications behind me, its time to start getting to know all of the wonderful people I have been able to read about over the past several months! Kris was kind enough to let me guest

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  to handle. The cold though, especially up in the mountains, is ... ; soft fluffy powder (you NE folks will just have to imagine what I mean ... my disappointment when I'm eagerly waiting for a huge storm to blow in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  the past 4 days working on 6.005. Our assignment is to create a Sudoku solver, which will read in any Sudoku puzzle and figure out a solution to it. It's pretty cool!! Except hard to do :( So understandably, there

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and hours to the Internet - aka procrastination. But is it me or are we all getting desensitized to the negative connotation of procrastination so that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Giving Back (Guest Entry) Guest Entry by Kenny '13

  

  to be grateful for. That's something that this semester has really taught me: all that I have to be grateful for. I've got a great set of ... an abundance of opportunities here at MIT to grow and learn more

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  during our travels, we get to meet amazing students and talk to them in person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn't figured out how to be everywhere at once. We can't visit every high school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  blog EVER! * waits for the “Welcome to the Blogging World” song * I am extremely excited to share my MIT world with the blogosphere and to heighten this grand experience, I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  , March 25th? I feel there should be a dramatic chord (or small mammal) to ... be tempted to break out the blink tag. CPW is an enormous event. It ... equally impressive, and you have an entire Admissions office here to help

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  things through her. Things like hacks :) It was a matter of some dismay to my fellow freshmen and I when we arrived on campus in August, only to ... . MIT Hackers did a little to welcome the Dome back to the world of sight

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back to his room with him to see his hydraulic door. To this day he insists ... completely innocent and simply limited to showing me how he could use water to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  waitlist. Within the next few days, we plan to admit approximately 60 ... with aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer ... school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  each get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay! Schedules ... form. Although I'm excited to have new classes and a fresh start, a new schedule means that school (and the accompanying work) is about to begin

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  doesn't mean that there's less to do - in fact, I find my days are STILL ... to head over and get down with our bad selves. If you want to feel ... , talk to other people, and unfortunately, dance to songs that were only

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS ... ...it's kind of pathetic, I suppose, that I just figured out how to do this. But ... yet (I'll get to it later, I'm about to go to sleep...), but basically

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  waitlist. Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students ... aid packages. Admitted students can then choose to accept our offer (it ... school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  should arrive very soon! In the meantime, please don't forget to register ... them to call as soon as possible. There's more information for parents here. Update for Waitlisted students: If you would prefer to email us

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  “MIT engineers go to work for Harvard graduates.” This phrase is no ... interdisciplinary problem-solving, MIT is uniquely equipped, and obliged, to make a critical difference: to do the analysis, to create the innovations, to fuel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  of people in hundreds of different professions from hair dressers to Hollywood directors to auto mechanics and constructor workers and teachers ... human factors in what we bring to and need from our work. The one story

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007