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• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  CPW begins a week from today, and I'm really psyched. The weather is ... attending this year. If you haven't yet registered (via your MyMIT account ... Rockwell Cage (W33). This event is a lot of fun, and you'll see many familiar

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... ;yield"), we admitted 1620 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  there arose such a clatter, I sprang to my Mac to see what was the matter. “I’m going to fail physics!” I saw one frosh yell. “Is torque in or out ... after a bit, that commotion died down, And I went back to physics and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  less “let’s make a spreadsheet”, but more like, “hey, why don’t we go ... acute accent’ joke, as a reference to our previous joint post, but I won’t ... make a path. This is where Alan will point out that I’m very bad at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  would be better for other people to just write a blog for me (although some are also my own). I’ve collected here some of the responses from a ... interact with regularly, so this is really only a snapshot of the diverse

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... to be home for the first time in six months, and I'm looking forward to a week of wireless internet in the bathtub and reading by the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  -senior" status) to finish up a degree. I'm excited to be taking advantage of this ... goal. Never fear, I'm taking another semester in the fall to finish my ... . Whenever I get stuck on my work, I like to find a new place to study. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  which they award points. Students don't just see a total score – they see ... : Request: Hi, I'm writing to request a regrade on Problem 1.2. I got points ... Several classes I've taken at MIT use a platform called gradescope

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  i wrote about every time i had a major update and felt like i wasn’t ... those things aren’t what you need right now and as a result you are never ... try things you shouldn’t do and then realize that you made a mistake

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  Top Crowdfunds $1m+ A few months back I discovered the Geek And Sundry Youtube ... a few of my favorite questions. "How would modern American football ... a few of his celebrity friends and play a new Board

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  )). I don't want to go into too much detail here, because it's a whole new ... (I'm impressed!), this is indeed Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic ... How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  / admissions wiki today. Amita Gupta, a freshman member of the inaugural Tech ... mostly unharmed. The problem is I haven't taken physics in like six years, and besides F=MA and watching my teacher set his hair on fire I don't

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  Long didn’t seem to notice, though.” "A conversation with our host ... IAP 2013 was a logistical (and medical) nightmare but a fantastic adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  My favorite room is a well-kept secret. I won't reveal the location ... view:     It's good to be back to campus, now as a senior ... , reconnection to friends, and eagerness for a fresh academic term is a permeating

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  , and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half ... disclaim his sentences by saying “Now, I'm a raving atheist, but...,” to ... annoyed by these people who couldn't argue so I bought a burrito, ate it

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I ... favorite was a t-shirt that read, "You're different today, I noticed the ... available to me that I wouldn't have anywhere else. The world's best

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  error? No, it couldn’t be – a big animation studio like Disney wouldn’t ... Office gave a presentation about adjusting to life in the alien environment that was the United States. As a chronically online Gen Z-er, I’d already

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  company since it was like a "omg-I-can't ... do not decrease, the economy isn't truly in a recession and there ... States has such a big deficit is because the public doesn't save, but the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  M. '20!! As expected from a company that is essentially the second ... . It was A M A Z I N G! Ben Platt is actually not human (we are convinced ... ! OMG it was so incredible to watch, because a l l o f i t w a s p a i n t

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  kingfisher and I'm a hufflepuff, but like what is a kingfisher??? is it a king ... disappointed because I'm not very good at fishing and I was hoping for maybe a ... was feeling a more light-hearted, nonsensical post to take my mind of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016