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• Blog / Classes

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

  

  's been a "pset, sleep, blog –– pick two" kind of time, so instead of 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 / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the ... I think it is different now. It is one thing to understand a fact or ... . Instead, we spent more time in the capital city of Lusaka, where we: 1) met

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime I am often asked what we admissions officers do during the summer. Frequently, people assume…

  

  students do. But that's not the case; admissions is a year-round job, and while we're not doing any admitting over the summer, there is still a lot ... ? Preparing for the influx of summer visitors. Beginning in a few weeks, crowds

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 10, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  't put a finger on why. Everything is ever so slightly more tiresome: each ... oddly still, like time has slowed and all that’s left in the world is you ... feeling bad is circular[/annotation]and probably not a good way to move

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  torrent of science that is present everyday. =D --- In other news, I'm a ... Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about ... debate, too! We attend several conferences in a year - this year, we had 5

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  taillights in front of you. Climbing as a sport is essentially non ... it's much akin to trying to appreciate the shirt your friend is wearing when you haven't seen your friend in a while. Being away from the 'tvte

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  in advance of the deadline.  If one of your essays is too long, or ... ;re here to answer your questions.  How can we help?  Answers below in the comments.  I will try to update this post with FAQs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  letting us know how much you love MIT. We thank you for your patience during ... at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield"). This year, our yield is going to be around 72-73 percent. Last year, it

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  articulate and clear way. She is precocious in her ability to organize a ... Spackenkill Student is a Youthful Leader April 28, 2006 By Jeremy ... , but she has accomplished more in her 17 years than many people do in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  [by Mirat Shah '08] My name is Mirat and I am a junior studying ... class. And in between terms, we get 6 weeks off, which is pretty amazing ... like pizza, bagels, and ice cream in winter. And I spent way too much

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  . Actor James Woods came close in 1969 but dropped out a semester before ... biology teacher Barbara Pittenger for inspiring him to pursue a major in ... better." Mr. Taylor will pursue a double major in management science and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  MIT has participated in a legal challenge to immigration policies ... cites the DACA case, in which the Supreme Court ruled that a 2017 decision ... precedent. In a letter to the community announcing the lawsuit, MIT President

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  matter is, as much as I love being in the Bubble Universe (where else can ... (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... am actually that much of a freak.) The fact that MIT’s its own little

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  Last year, about this time, I was typing a blog entry much like this ... in a new house that my wife and I just finished building. Well, we didn ... your cross stitching gear and learn how to cross stitch a cool custom MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Battle in The Bay a comic

  

  charm to it. In addition to experiencing what it's like to be a "real adult" in the "real world", I've been able to spend a good amount of time ... a professional artist. The outcome is below:

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is ... that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but ... transportation, and this is a problem. Alternative evolutions of the bicycle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  relations in a world that is just a step away from our own. Her: Ex Machina ... reading so can't say too much yet, but it deals with hard topics in a ... chamomile tea in hand, and snuggle up with a book? We have a lot of these

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  would obviously be a bad idea. In other school news, for those of you who ... problem to someone else suddenly makes the solution clear). Rick is in 6 ... else has been going on in my life? You know, school and stuff. While I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• FAQ / International applicants

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  Only students who currently hold a visa complete this section of the application. The International Students Office assists all admitted students through the visa application process in May.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  double rainbows! - but a few that appear in a star-like pattern and radiate from the light source. It's a phenomenon that is so epic, particularly in the context of a chemistry class, that no amount of astonished

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010