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  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  . We're pretty good at the pirate sports: rowing and fencing are Division I sports; we are the birthplace of intercollegiate sailing; and we ... . Where do you think George got the money to buy the team? Well, Henry used

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  a giant postal tube, but it's still an exciting thing. ARE you excited ... other people where I'd applied early, or that I'd applied early at all ... 't have online decisions.) Anyway, I made some comment like "I wish they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  , here are some examples of cool projects: CYCLESCORE: " We connected a ... the second game, you are a spaceship that flies around and shoots down ... "Difficulty Management System" (DMS)" iQUARIUM "A hands-on, student-made

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  …..” and you don’t really know where they are going with this until they ... !). Recently, this video made by the MIT media lab (which includes Chris Peterson ... because you are not just given knowledge–you have to earn it. I’m going to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  on. Irina O. ‘15 and Luisa B. ‘16 made brownies and meringues, which is ... her 2-room (“Oh, this is Friday”). The bean sprouts are Jessica’s; the ... someday. Destiny is also where I found Cory my sophomore year, after Snake

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British accent. The names are fascinating too. Under any other circumstance, I ... are names of real places. I've been here for two days and I'm really

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  the taste of rejection. You’ve made yourself sick to the stomach out of ... essays are not unique enough. You’ve put in years of hard work to get into ... -way through with senior year. You’re at the point where application deadlines

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  : ...as we made more money we were able to have more components of the floor professionally manufactured, up to the point where now we only sell assembled ... 't know what that means but I do know that their first year they made a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  adventure into the field where scientists test the Mars rovers.  After a tour ... ? There are chains on the one I took a few weeks ago, and the one from 2006 ... it was not on our campus, and it made us really happy that we have

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  each other!). I've delegated her as the spokesperson for the "where are ... (10029), but we are zoned in the same Congressional district as the wealthy Upper East Side (NY 14th). This made me finally realize what

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  , in case anyone missed them.) Jess: Okay, so your roommates are picked by just rock/paper/scissors? Are there any dorms where you can live ... lottery, you are assigned to the same dorm as someone you'd like to room

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

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

  

  pick up Darryl and Marvin, and made the long trek home, where I incubated ... Yesterday was one of those days where we were fortunate enough to ... streets of Port-Au-Prince are extremely dusty, so by the end of the day we

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

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  things that's like, why are we doing this? we're doing it because it's fun ... teaching and learning, or the free food, or becoming better at handling ... wow are my saturday afternoons filled. i am not directing this year

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  technology-free areas, study spots where people are working, spaces to nap but ... is in a very good mood.    2:15 pm - At South Station, we are ... we are going to Yale. It is one of the people from Harvard who are also

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  bear its name are sold everywhere from the airport to Boston Commons ... that covers "Ethnicity, Migration, Rights." There are classes about the ... courses are referred to by the material they cover, like ‘abstract algebra

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  MIT students is that (generally speaking) they are good stewards of ... students are doing, just go back and check out some of the recent blog posts ... came to MIT, it started way back in high school. So here are a few

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  academia, too. I would've made any other school home. If you are deferred ... . Remember that, regardless of where you go after high school, these are your ... less than 5. 3,689 were not offered admission. That's 24.46%. Those are

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  . This turned out to be a good thing because it made the summer pass by ... cool thing about MIT is that they understand this and that there are all ... up a lot of your time. Here are my top ten ways to earn money at MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  plural, I think, but no one asks me), so here are two pictures I took on my ... sciences (and even those rankings were made back in 2002!), so MIT's #2 spot ... have all the same professors, and in many classes grad students are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  her fingers around the planet. Adjacent to the dome, there are three ... and around 60 chairs, where UVA graduate students take turns giving ... radio astronomy. There are some repeat visitors who have learned my name

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013