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  Home! I'm back in the US after three weeks in Asia.

  

  After a long vacation in Southeast Asia, I'll be officially back in ... (and for so many people to be speaking English), but I'm excited to begin ... trip to Florida starts in less than a month! Forthcoming blog entries

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins the Putnam ...for the third year in a row!

  

  having spent time with some of the top performers, I can confirm that the ... , securing the MIT team's first-place ranking--our team has finished in first ... --the median score is frequently 0; in 2015, it was 2 points out of a possible

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  helping with Macgregor rush and in-house rush for my entry. Somehow I got ... madly in love with me. Or something like that. At the moment, I'm pretty ... Syndrome, I have this idea in my head that I got into MIT because I'm lucky

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty

  

  've ever been so worn out in my life. I know a lot more quantum than when the ... means to be truly unbiased, and our responsibility in wearing the mark of ... stronger because of it. I'm involved with Amnesty International- I believe

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  , just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in ... tripod or anything, I've got a cybershot throw-in-your-pocket camera. BUT ... the same picture zoomed in really close. I've played with the brightness

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  only 18%. Sam's Mom has informed me that I have a then/than error in one of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome ... grandmothers' house in the middle of the night. In the words of a great man, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  meals, and I savored every delicious mouthful. And now, in the blink of ... has been closed down. Yes, that's right: the Subway in the Student ... far, the best eating place in the entire Stud - nay, perhaps the best on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  can ignore the text boxes and simply choose the option, "I attend a ... The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at ... also an option in the Report for students whose schools do not provide

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  booing. Some roared in disbelief. Others murmured to their friends. I saw ... the same 24 hours in a day. It's how we choose to spend it that ... at Ring Delivery in April. When I got my sample ring, it was too small

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  ] [annotation note = "I dyed my hair last month and kept the box 'just in case ... Katie Zhao’s new novel, [annotation note = "Katie and I have the same agent, and I actually got to see her at Boston Book Festival last month

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What Am I Forgetting? A helpful guide.

  

  I'm leaving for Boston tomorrow this morning. As most of my friends and family could tell you, I'm just a little bit frazzled when packing to go to or from MIT...so I would, almost inevitably, forget one vital

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  once - there is an iterative process in which many applications are seen several times by various committees. In other words, an application is ... 's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Mnemonic Contest Winner Congratulations, Shawn!

  

  bryanblogs [at] mit dot edu. Tomorrow: How I work for a genius.

  • by Bryan
  • September 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  applicant. I'll tell you right up front that I attribute my success in grad ... my AP's were in science! That's a true story.) I was ranked 11th in my ... in 8.02x (Physics: E&M) from freshman year. I had a lot of classes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  your application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your application stand. Simply sending in
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  We are very sentimental people. Not like the keeps-every-birthday-card-in ... -the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high school, because our mom kept us in check organiztion wise (read: she threw

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• FAQ / International applicants

  Am I domestic or international if I hold dual citizenship?

  international in our application process. We don't have any preference as to which
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  English that I wrote it in to the typical Russian they publish in, but the ... thinking about an article about foreigners living in St. Petersburg. So I ... first published on http://dfactorial.tumblr.com I wrote an article about

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.

  

  I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.)

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  project on visual image processing in the Schiller Lab. More recently, he ... polymers that can kill cancer cells. Berry may not know the exact ingredients in the special sauce that makes MIT such a mecca of talent, but it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007