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FAQ / First-year application
How does the MIT admissions process work?
the details can add a lot of stress to the waiting period, so we're happy to shed some light into that black hole. In fact, we outline our -
FAQ / First-year application
May high school juniors apply?
information on our site about what to do in high school that you'll find helpful. You can fill out our Tell us about yourself! form and you will be added -
Blog / Miscellaneous
A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.
The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with 40+ McGanns in ... spend some quality time with my family... I hope many of you are taking -
Blog / Academics & Research
21E our major in a diagram!
We are majoring in 21E, a joint major that lets you combine any ... 21E can be confusing. So, here it is, filled out with the classes we ... HASS = Humanities Arts and Social Sciences REST = Restricted Elective in -
Blog / Academics & Research
Science Times
A great article about MIT Professor Erik Demaine in today's New York ... . Erik Demaine, turning in his hands an elaborately folded paper structure. The intricately pleated sail-like form swooshes gracefully in a compound -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.
professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my ... helpful in our math problem set group. Later, I learned that he was the top ... 't really big in that sort of stuff. Rather than be intimidated, I took this -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.
twelve rows back in the stands, I was still deathly afraid of being ... . Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world ... 's what's been going on in my life. Yesterday in 6.002, somebody brought a -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.
last Thursday, and while I'm not big on getting dressed up, semiformal attire was "encouraged," so I sucked it up and put on a dress. I left ... . Adelaide sits on the floor in the hallway to strap on her heels. Adelaide is -
Blog / MISTI
Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.
:45 AM. Well, dude, I'm in college; I'm not don't have the money to take ... , authorities have set up a row of big-screen projectors in Berlin spanning an entire kilometer to help dedicated fans watch World Cup soccer. Now, I was -
Blog / MIT Life
Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...
semester, MIT students tend to hide themselves in their rooms ... final exams. I’m peeking out from underneath my rock (with some prodding ... wonderful (but extremely intense) four years of your life. I was talking to a -
Blog / Academics & Research
Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.
that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space? A. Up in space we use a vacuum. I always tell kids it's not something ... 11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the -
Blog / Events
Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience
Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... maniacal fervor. By the time I returned to Random at 8:30 PM, puzzling was in ... ice cream parlor in America and I sprinted away into the snowy night -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.
wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... Even though I am rarely directly asked this question, I know it's often in the back of people's minds when they're thinking about MIT: do -
Blog / Admissions
MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it
nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack ... Cheese During in-house rush, I was told that the G unofficially stood for ... through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
tetacats the furry fish of tetazoo
For context, Tetazoo is the name of the cat friendly hall that I live ... .[/annotation] Within on campus dorms, there are a couple of other halls in East Campus ... information session that historically, this hasn't always been the case. Back in -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Food No Context blogging no context
professor gave had free coffee and biscuits for us in class. Love Course 15 ... (I had just one I promise) 1:37AM late night coffee break in between psets. -
Blog / Admissions
RA Selection Day 3
, Oscar the Grouch, Elmo, Ernie, and Bert Today, I worked with Marivel and ... some delicious Thai food. Yummy! After work, I met up with some old friends, including one who was in town because he's coaching a team for the -
Blog / Admissions
College Admissions and the Public Interest
In 1966, B. Alden Thresher, an economist and the first ever Director ... more than 50 years ago. What I love about CAPI (as it's called) is the honesty and integrity with which B.A.T. wrote, which values I hope (and -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Multi-Day Weekend at MIT
tomorrow. Tomorrow, I have to work in the morning, as I get to present to ... from admitted students (do you have any? Leave them in the comments ... ! -- the applicant Class of 2010. As for me, I spent a good part of today