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  Selection: Day Three A beautiful snowy Sunday...

  

  It's a beautiful snowy Sunday in Cambridge, and we're hard at work ... Mike '07, we spied out the window some folks playing in the snow in ... , her daughter Elizabeth, and their golden retriever, Casey. It would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is MIT Code?

  MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand exactly what you're saying. Translation: You could be in Room 10
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  in the drill, and then taking large bows. I tried to remember slow ... are in the "I'm playing this for the first time ever" boat, so I'm not ... final score was 49-6. It's apparently the worst loss in over 15 years. It

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: I'm taking ... ’s like to live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  -pitch quadcopters flipping upside-down (developed in the MIT Aerospace Controls Lab ... of the capstone options for the aeroastro degree. in true mens ... class in space systems engineering) have led to real systems for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  E-3 (admissions summary) card: I: We have your Interview in your ... I almost forgot: for you regular action folks, the deadline to ... interview in your folder. We understand that geography can be hard, so we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  loveee Cake and was super, super excited. In all my excitement, I brought ... find someone who lived nearby to stash it so that I'd be able to get in ... first things I noticed in the hotel was that there is a view of the MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  of DNA was discovered (I am a biology major, I have to throw that in). Now you wonder what in the world I am doing here, on MIT Admissions blog ... am Linh, a junior majoring in Biology (Course 7) and I am currently

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Sabrosura! ...yeah so some variation of deliciousness/tastefulness

  

  adjectives that show you how cool this event was! And the BEST part is, I got to dress up for it!! (Me in my new red dress con mi novio; Photo Credits: Joy Ekuta, ‘13) I can’t wait until next year!

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  software - and how these programs can be improved in the future. After the ... ou?", or "How old are you?", but since my French is pretty lacking I ... in the relief effort. What I found most striking was that the current

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  , It's A Pain. For Chris M. '12, It's Amazing Pterodactyl. For me, I think it's in between a party and a pain. Maybe something like a picnic ... wants to have in Boston that day. Who knew it snowed in Boston?? (Just

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  primary concerns I get from students: 0) How can I do all of this? There ... puzzling.....how about "Vulcans never bluff!"? I'm almost positive I won ... science fiction! They have over 90% of ALL SCI-FI PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live ... entire dorm research process summed up in two sentences: I then started ... ="83279" image4="83280" /] I even drew a giant pigeon mural in my room! 5. The

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  being a woman in engineering here. I had female friends in all of the ... Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but ... know what the gender ratio is at MIT in engineering (mech

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  work we would be doing in some of the internships we applied ... MIT students, and probably college students in general. Many do ... last undergraduate summer, we wanted to outline what we’ve done in each

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  in the world and being in an environment where people are always ... undetected concussions has become too prevalent in young athletes, and Ben, as ... distribution. "This is the product that I wish I had growing up. And it’s the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  chain of links and tweets that eventually ended up in my inbox which I ... featured in the blog post "Stephen, I'm Putting You On Notice!"   Jeff ... Resource Development."   Gotta go, I'm in the Student Center and I can

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I AM SO BUSY

  

  But I still went downtown to fetch a fresh fruit eclair. (Sorry for shouting.) Someone asked what I'm doing for spring break. I'm going to Iceland, Sweden, and Denmark with three friends. We're going way north in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  One of the most mindblowingly awesome people I've met in my six years ... , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June, Julie finished her masters degree at the Media Lab in the Playful Systems

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  It's been nearly two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and I ... at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the " ... time in the last eight years that we have not been able to go to our wait

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013