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  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , and, as I wrote in Early, it would not have been possible without the ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... so much time speaking with so many students. Nor would it have been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  !) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort ... . I start in a few hours. Now ordinarily, the trainman wouldn't be ... 's life. I'd never driven that far in one shot before, and certainly not in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space? A. Up in space we use a vacuum. I always tell kids it's not something ... 11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  committee worked hard over the course of several days to determine how many students we could take at this time, and which students to admit. I sat in for a day before leaving for Albuquerque and I can tell you that it was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And here I am!

  

  Well, I'm back in the States. I thoroughly enjoyed everything but I ... five thousand miles of fishing line and a solid hook? :-) I've long maintained that one learns more in a week of travel than in a month of high

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  I met sophomores Boris Alexeev and Shaye Storm three years ago at a ... judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to ... ten-year olds (and even staring at the pretty graphs on his poster), I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... for thirty years, and how helpful it had been to science, and then I was ... Even though I am rarely directly asked this question, I know it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  presentations seriously. You know how in most classes you might have one or two ... wall to change in size. I was my team's Information Officer, which meant ... made me HTFP, but in the end, I absolutely loved it. I built this crazy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  Hello, world. It’s been awhile. Mostly because I’ve been swamped. It ... writing about my life, I'll do a little show-and-tell.   Half of getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a ... If you were in Boston sometime these past few nights and glanced ... :   ...or giant bobblehead figures of esteemed MIT alumni brawling in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  I wanted to give everyone an update on our campaign to feed the homeless that I started with my friends last month. On November 11, 2015 ... difference. Over 60 people donated and we raised a total of $275 in just two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  At approximately 4:30pm today, we did something we haven't done in 4 ... determine how many students we could take at this time, and which students to admit. It was extremely difficult! I had thought we were done with tough

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR), which is located just down the road from MIT! I pass this spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  Patriots' Day in Boston, about my first time watching that most unifying of ... or root against. And then today's tragic events happened.  In a few ... rate in the triple digits.  The wailing of sirens and the steady chop

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  most recognized rings in the world but also pretty much the single item ... show the world how proud we are of our school <3 Earlier this evening ... ; thanks to Jeanne '13, I have some pictures to show all of you :) As we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  how you group words. There’s a certain power in a sentence that is more ... essays out loud. In this revision you are looking for what I call emotional ... Background: I love writing. I love building on thoughts I can’t put

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  something like a teacher when you talk to them. And this is how... I know ... , musicians and everything in between. Some are teachers, teaching in schools not far from yours while others are in school as students themselves

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  in high school and I think the Romans are ridiculous and really ... there’s minimal homework and free lunch! I worked in an NIH Clinical ... , so maybe I'm not a mad scientist. But, when people ask me where I am

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2020 blogger wrapped, wrapped

  

  , so I'm honored to be able to take up the mantle for what will be my ... bloggers, y'all better keep this going next year so I can f e e d on the ... about it. This year, I'm going to be extra and do a bloggers wrapped

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  both cornerstones of my experience in Taipei last summer. i got this ... dozens of these sometime early in the year, so i grabbed 3(rd) and put them ... our floor's massive merch order that came sometime in IAP. i bought a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020