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• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am ... Mersenne primes. Also, I expect that the number of applications we received ... 'll play this as a guessing game: how many freshman applications do you think

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Ask Me Anything go on

  

  the question is, as Elizabeth would say, "totes inapropes", I ... closed! at 10:54 EST. so i can go to bed without worrying about whom I'm not answering. thanks all!  Today is Sunday. I am at home. After

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  I always wondered what it would be like to go to one of those really hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last ... New England Regional (more details here). Now I've been to sports games

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Quick update from SB Where it is not below zero.

  

  In Santa Barbara right now, where I'm soaking up the sun and just getting some R&R before the new semester. This IAP I have just been up ... let you guys know I'm not dead, Haha. Will have a more in depth check in

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  incredibly easy to talk to, but after I visited her in her office, several of ... , noted in her own post on LGBQT life (and more specifically, The Rainbow ... about how campaigns like these honor MIT's commitment to diversity by

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  It all started one day in the fall semester, when Danny was in CMS ... email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a double on the third floor of Next House, specifically in Safety Third (the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  helped to create giant underground lakes in ancient Egypt . . . at least I ... There are definitely perks to attending MIT. For example, at MIT I ... downsides. I think this comic does a great job summarizing: ___ ___ You

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  as much as my family did: Anyway, I come to you in 2018 bearing ... currently in school. What do I do? Ya still gotta submit the form, even if you ... in school. I don’t have grade updates because: my school doesn’t do

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  of bits to open. I don't know how many of you work with wood or are ... Maddie and I headed over to help set up the brand new shop and check out ... , and helping with odd-jobs around the shop. I, being the eternal tourist

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  in the lab where I UROPed) through MITOC, and was quite an adventure ... internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random ... land learning how dragon boat paddle techniques differ from canoeing or

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  the past eight years I've been in Boston, and we've never strugged to ... I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), after spending a wonderful long weekend in Boston with them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  Amazingly, I've been an admissions blogger for a bit over twelve months now. One thing I've noticed about this site in the past year is that ... changed about MIT in the past four years - but many things haven't, and I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order ... Week 1: IAP Week 3: IAP Week 4: I spent a substantial amount of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  international students.   This past week, I attended an annual conference on international admissions (I attended last year as well). The ... applications. As always, it was quite fascinating; I learned a lot, met some good

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  doing now that I've won this most presitigious of awards? Sitting in lab ... Tonight I won the MIT Marching Band's coveted SPAM scholarship. As ... competition for me in the field of SPAM. Here's my award-winning speech. "My

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... last year's early action period, when we received 9,291. As I wrote a few ... are very proud of, and grateful for, all their hard work. I also know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  slacklining, so I gather, lies in training your leg to counter-wobble against ... like finding balance in dance, and both slacklining and dance are (I ... Dance Team, stared out at the crowd of giggling students attempting, in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  is similar in architecture, layout, and structure. I haven't counted ... Campus the only dorm where I could be happy? No -- thinking so would be ... The blogfathers in the admissions office requested a while back that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  clueless about what they were like on a daily basis before I moved in ... I was reading one of Laura's recent entries with a response to a ... . Before I go on, "hall" means "floor" -- if I ever use one or the other, now

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  pain. In the meantime, I'd like to thank everyone who made this video ... depends entirely on how you look at it." We wanted to make a video that showed the candy store side of things. Soon I'll post up more on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012