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  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  't much of a party, but the title at least made the task of opening envelopes seem more fun. We are now receiving a deluge of mail each day ... , make sure that the different pieces are stapled together, make sure

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  crazy person. Maybe both. Come on, many brilliant people are crazy. Ergo ... that my MIT professors have said. Actually, some of the things are more ... are not above a little glee at the magic of science. 18.01, Calculus

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  produced by Novartis. How about Gerber baby food? Yup, made by Novartis. Gas ... Screening labs that are located in the Cambridge facility. It's hard to ... with about a thousand holes that are all filled with other compounds

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  MIT Admissions home page] All []s represents edits to this entry made on ... 't English. What are my testing options? A. You have two options. You may do ... are: 577 (PBT), 233 (CBT) and 90 (iBT). You should aim to meet or exceed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  of 175 juniors who are doing a college tour of New England. It was fun ... graduate schools except for the Business School are open to cross ... registration classes for MIT students are language classes. Some of my friends

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small ... through the workout, which took about 35-40 minutes, and then we were free ... are all so incredibly mind-blowing and talented that you’ll be learning

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  language vulnerably.  Here are a few poems that I wrote! Ed gave us ... how, until I realize that this is the same world where  “the waitress ... out in an office where everyone else is a man, including one who “loves

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where ... currently interested in the intersections of science and history - where the ... by studying genetic groups of mice in the UK, that are also found "not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  , and I’ll admit that there are days where I wonder what I’m doing at the ... came after I turned my camera off. See, a lot of you are probably in the process of figuring out where you want to go to college (I assume you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

      Winter is coming. Oh, and so are finals. It's my ... ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-final-stretch/'>Junior fall</a> and I sure made the most of the extra week."]5th semester ... devoted strictly to studying. I clear my calendar as well. Finals are my #1

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you ... single, longform essay, but rather five short-answer questions where we try to get to know different aspects of each individual. Here are this year

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. How many people are on the ... possibility). What are the realities here? If we go to the waitlist this year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Pictures that don’t belong anywhere else – Part I because i'm a slackslackslackball.

  

  This entry is a lot of things. Read! First here are some pictures ... kelly's: You might be upset by the fact that there are 4x4's running through the middle of our room and you might even be wondering, "What?! Are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  brought by the giant Traags to the Traags' home planet, where they are kept as pets (with collars). The Traags are an alien race which is humanoid ... human beings - one Traag week equals a human year. Some Oms are

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. How many people are on the ... that). What are the realities here? If we go to the waitlist this year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  Uncanny valley is a phenomenon where an eerie and unsettling feeling ... /repulsion, uncanny valley refers to the sharp dip. There are several theories about why ... scary, a smile in a different context from what we are used to can really

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  not know at the time but these are just Crispins. Fun fact: they ... . For the less fruit-inclined, there was an area where they kept some ... sticks, straw, and bricks are a political allegory[/caption] Happy Your

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  acceptance letters, current students are getting ready for spring break, and admissions officers are celebrating the end of application season. Also, this ... there, we hope you are pumped for what the next few months have in store

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  A few weeks ago, I posted our inaugural audio thing where I talked ... , and action team. As I said then, we had been (and still are) kicking ... the rest of their team are looking for feedback (as are we). And, if you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  time of the year.  Flags for classes are being handed out for those of us who are struggling extraordinarily well, and some of us (at least I hope it's not just me) are staying up way too late to finish projects and do

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013