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• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  in recent years deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do ... right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly suggest ... , too, can request a deferral any time right up until Registration Day in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  examples of how MIT students are already involved in making the world a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the Colbert Bump MIT's Riley Crane talks DARPA Challenge on ''The Colbert Report''

  

  Remember when MIT beat out teams from around the world to be the first to find all 10 hidden red balloons in DARPA's balloon challenge? Well Dr. Riley Crane, the team leader, was interviewed on "The Colbert

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I have the best girlfriend ever Gifts at MIT rock.

  

  in just for me! I have the best girlfriend ever.

  • by Snively '11
  • December 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people ... profound blog post, so I’ll go ahead and zoom in on some the crazy things ... You know what’s the best part about going to 3.091 [Chem.] at 11 in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  TGIF! After a long week comes...a FEAST!

  

  . This week, we went to Buk Kyung II, a Korean restaurant in Allston. So

  • by Celena C. '12
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday! (a.k.a my first video blog) vlogging? MEAT CAKE!

  

  that died in transit, brownies, and most importantly- Steakon!

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 30, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  way to get more mattresses than that. I beg to differ. In a few days ... own mattress! We also have the second longest hallway in the country. What are a thousand kids, with a thousand mattresses, in one of the

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  on the waitlist to 454 people, in the possibility that we needed to go ... are fully satisfied with the class. Last year, we admitted students in ... how this year looks in a few weeks. The waitlist committee has been

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

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  stood in the middle. *boom boom boom* Ahhhhh sh**, get your towels ready ... , and do my duty to the Lonely Island. Everybody in the place hit the ... -white (but still mostly white) gangster I can manage, and join in. That's right

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  amazing acts at the show (in alphabetical order): - Bhangra (dance, Punjabi ... actually used to be in the Chorallaries, and I used to be in the Logs (back in our undergrad days). These are, of course, just a sampling of the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  more. I was fortunate that my family decided to take a vacation in New ... why I loved it so much here. CPW has been designed with the students in ... regarding your financial aid package or the financial aid process in general

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.

  

  kind of joke. (In related news, Pi Day is only eleven days away. Get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all seriousness, maybe this post is giving people the wrong impression. The first thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  how weird would that be? Instead it died in the much more subtle Bso ... his homework when he should’ve in high school, I wasn’t. I was a goof, I only worked hard in inconsistent spurts. I didn’t take notes, I never

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Final Push Who needs sleep?

  

  This is it, MIT is in the middle of finals week and the final grind is upon us. My last final is tomorrow morning (exactly 12 hours from now) and I have not yet begun studying. That's right, not even looked at

  • by Snively '11
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  costume. So, here I am as a duke: Note the plume in my hat. Hats with ... my friends in Senior Haus. Note the mural of Death (from Neil Gaiman's Sandman) in the background, which is one of my favorites, out of all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true ... enough in itself to entice me to explore new opportunities, this invitation ... lecture entitled “The Future of Islam in America: Challenges and Fears

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by ... bipolar.) The real turning point in my illness took place on Friday, when I ... have them take a look at me. Being sick in college is not fun, no matter

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  repercussions turned out to bite me in the proverbial butt. Thus is the beginning for the tale of the midnight tool: Prologue: Having taken BC Calc AP in ... figured 18.01 would be a walk in the park, I took one look at the p-set and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008