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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties MIT alumni-hosted parties in your area.

  

  Beginning tomorrow (Saturday), MIT alumni from around the world will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2010. If there's one in your area, you should check it out -- it's a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  stress in GPA competition At MIT, whether or not your school offers class rank does not affect our decision. And at schools like the one in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and ... data in a million different ways until we had our "AHA" moment the day

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  flops are my shoeware of choice, even I have to give in at some point and ... 're getting dressed in the winter. Layering is key, but you don't want to over

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  So typically when people hear the words "fraternity party," they think wild and crazy kids in togas. If by togas you mean suits and ties ... have been my choice in shirt and tie combination. Basically, each

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Devices and I worked in the Manufacturing Engineering Lab. So, see that ... and then arrange them to create a nanodevice. Exciting, eh? In order to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  , Bachelor's degree in Marketing Favorite things about MIT: I love the MIT Dome ... , which are actually similar. Favorite cartoon character: the monster in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  not use the scores in admissions decisions until it is satisfied with ... very moment, I'm in MIT Room 10-250 with 500 or so other people listening

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  Hi everyone, I am back in town after a crazy day of traveling across the country with a pregnant wife and a toddler (good times). Sorry to be ... , and am blown away by the humanity of this community in response to his

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly wrote, "I just wish the bloggers themselves posted more." Well, there have ... 've demonstrated in the comments. And we'll defer 5 out of 6 of you, and sadly, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  well. We want to see that students are involved in things because they ... 't have any required classes, but a strong academic foundation in high
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  asked me before when they stop being prefrosh and become regular frosh. In ... [/annotation] impending arrival. I was in the airport for my 8AM flight from Louisville to Boston ... communities and see where they would best fit in on campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  I’m going to pretend I have not been AWOL. Life updates shall come in ... to satisfy everyone in a class of over 1000 students o__o. Despite the ... more spice to it. So, back in sophomore year, I thought it would be cool

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  this random guy in his mom’s basement will generate a Pulitzer ... by AI “written in Rona’s style” or trained on my publicly available ... poses a professional threat. I’m privileged in that I never expected to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  —a shiny prize wheel in front of a heap of good prizes. A Harvard athlete ... in our hands. The athlete smiled at us and held up a QR code. He made ... fill out a profile and check-in to the event before we could spin the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  , but it's only a lie in the sense that it can't be truth, because ... I am a senior, I am a 2023, I am graduating in May, and though I ... , measuring things, cutting two by fours, putting in screws

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  right now and then come back. In celebration of evermore as well as the ... counterpart. willow Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneakin' in As if ... and go to plenty of parties in college.   gold rush But I don

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it's ironic ... fun I've had in a while. But it also was the first time I'd moved for more than like two (2) minutes at once in literal months, so my body wasn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  in the future. That plus my involvement with MIT’s fall planning plus ... weekends either. I kind of feel like I’m back at MIT in that regard. Part of ... taking care of myself right now in this moment. So, here’s a few ways I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  chances, in the long run, that you’ll write something good. (As a corollary ... cliches, so take extra effort to remind yourself it’s true. In practice, it ... , because you’ll forget otherwise. In fact, just schedule time for things that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020