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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  tarp in the dregs of Chinatown, torrents of rain flushing from the sky ... least five (5!) distinct brands of dried squid meat. By “we” in the last sentence, I mean “Yan, who privately enjoys the briny gristle of dehydrated

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  all over the dessicated grids of my post-semester calendar: 1.Baked ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza ... prototyped during the Vietnam War to sharpen the reflexes of future army

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in ... Minor, making special note of the soprano's oblique motion against the bass and the correct preparation and downward resolution of the sevenths

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  attendees and found out that a lot of them came all the way from the West ... student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is ... the dropouts usually have at least one year of college under their belt

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  offer you admission to the MIT Class of 2012." Which, don't get me wrong ... morning of Sunday, March 18th, I was sitting at the computer in our living ... warning, the sun suddenly just breaks through out of nowhere and illuminates

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  the ocean, partitioned by the faintest, haziest stroke. In front of me ... instincts tell us that we're in greater risk of danger. The unfamiliar is ... on others. I think it's important to not let the absence of others

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I haven’t completed all the recommended coursework?

  At the very least, we recommend you have one full year of both ... course of study and institutional offerings. ... is admitted without calculus and physics at the college level
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  the DARK BLUE team. As of today, the map looks like this: We are now ... wished that somehow all of those games were combined into one? A little ... your own armies, your own territory, your own sweet victory? The UA

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  . Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... decision, including the 52 to whom we have offered admission. At that point ... students for the Class of 2019, not even Leeroy Jenkins. We have seen all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  engineering gets, from the initial design brainstorming to the hours of mixing ... year--two years ago, the mission requirement was to carry 2 liters of water to a 100-meter altitude and then dump it out of the airplane like an

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  really big blog post but it'll take some more time, and in the interim I'll be doing a lot of small, bite-size blog posts! So how was sophomore ... a future blog post, but the classes were definitely the hardest they

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  so happy to meet so many of you. I hope you all make the right decision and come to MIT =) If any of you saw the Wall Street Journal today, the ... every two years to the nation’s most promising economist under the age of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There ... it start on the last day of finals and does it end on the first day of REX/Rush? The last day of REX/Rush? Reg day? I have no idea. But I do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  on the Time Traveler Convention. Anyway, check both of those out. Last ... , and I didn't lose my voice =) The most popular question of the night ... 's Department of Architecture is the oldest school of architecture is the United

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly ... , we may recover some of that time by Emeryville. The reasons for this ... is well, out in the American West; we will just have to see whether I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  Today marks the beginning of the glorious month known as IAP, which ... , MIT students get the chance to enjoy everything that MIT has to offer ... : Baseball (Art of Hitting)- “Learn the fundamentals of how to hit a baseball

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now ... . Because of the competitiveness of our pool, we have already informed 2 ... deep breath, shake it off, and go crush the rest of your college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2026 are now ... Regular Action, 33,796 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2026. This ... being well above the pre-pandemic baseline of about 20,000 applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  cloudless and the temperature was 73 degrees Fahrenheit. I had only two ... beautiful spring day... ...when pushed off the roof of a 7-story dormitory ... should have tossed the upright piano onto the baby grand instead of the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  top CS school in the world. And yet, when I took 6.1010 (fundamentals of ... the properties of things and how to engineer new materials with the ... teaching; true to form, every pset was in the form of a superhero comic

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022