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  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  Sunday. Just look for the person with the "MIT" sign near the baggage claim ... ), or the subway ($1.25). The subway trip can be a little confusing for ... we are paying for some students' transportation to CPW; for the most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  ) which is the main get-together for all admitted students, the admissions ... different communities here on campus like Sin Limite for the Latinx community and Ebony Affair for the Black community. So I ended up attending both

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  it, it's a delicious experience for the mind, the mouth, and the wallet ... blogpost about the art of the burrito, I found myself lacking for other ... what I can get from the little taqueria right in MIT's front yard. For $4

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  (capture the flag counts) For EXTRA BONUS POINTS: track me down! (Hint: I ... awesome events and have had a chance to collapse and sleep for the first ... * looking forward to what you're going to come up with through the magic of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match between Germany and Costa Rica on the big screen with a huge and rowdy group of MIT students, and I'm looking forward to watching many of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  . Background (why the World Cup): I have been obsessed with the World Cup for the ... qualified for it (the US and the Dutch). But anyone who knows me well enough ... for me when it comes to watching a game is listening to the pundits

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  resource/guide for MIT first-years. This is a program under the Office of the ... class or substituting the HASS CI-H for another intro class in a different ... , consider swapping out one of your 12-unit classes for 6.100L, the longer 9

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  number for quick access to the frat van/car/bus (? looking at you here ... Interfraternity Council, or IFC, which acts as their collective government for the ... each frat sets up a table under the tent on Kresge that’s used for

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2022 Wait List An update for students who accepted a place on our wait list

  

  looking to work with our community. Thank you for all the wonderful updates ... from the wait list without exceeding our enrollment capacity for the year ... According to the admissions profession's Code of Ethics and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  for feedback in the last entry. :-) I will be creating some in ... move in, and the way things could look a month or a year later. I was ... keeping his or her room for the summer (with applicable rent payment

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  look for the true source, or at least i wasn’t able to get anywhere ... i spent approximately zero months feeling grateful for the time i did ... is[annotation note='the thing that really changed my mind for good was

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  need a tour for, I was "living the dream" and could find everything I ... , because then you wouldn't need the tour, but I did find myself looking at ... . And of course, the story of Oliver Smoot never gets old for me

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The drummers for the bands Queen and Duran Duran are ... station the for Course 10B, which is chemical and biological engineering ... I went to station 8, which was the station for normal chemical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  up for some reason. I'll look into this when I'm back in the office ... I apologize for the confusion surrounding the removal of the Application Tracking portlet in MyMIT. The system is supposed to display a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  - it is for a class) had been moved to the East Campus courtyard ... made during my 18.02 class last week Friday during our review for the ... ! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  then load them onto the mills/lathes. Then the tool does all the work for ... the "Inscription Hack" around the perimeter of the dome. Awesome, looks good in SolidWorks, how's it going to look in real life? The first thing

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  system for freshmen, or any of the wide variety of acronyms that have ... winter break, although they'll be back for the rest of IAP. And campus ... the annual Mystery Hunt - an IAP tradition I've been looking forward to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  -advocate, even if that means looking past the obvious places for help. If you don ... after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of ... class), preparing for a little French presentation with a classmate in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  On Friday, I went to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for the first time! Established in 1872, it's the oldest public arboretum in ... seen myself as the "frolicking in nature" type (due to my allergies, for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  alone at all. Your first adjustment, then, will be to prepare for the ... dressed for tropical weather all goes a long way. On top of that, the rooms ... on the metric system. So for example, a snowball fight, given this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011