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  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  center, and expect to have that backlog into January. Do not send a second ... Admissions at this time to check on any such documents (there is a time for ... are in tough financial shape and make a good faith effort to inform us

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  "] SDS [/annotation] suggests that it’s “not expected to present a ... , so it would take a lot less milli-Q water (as compared to tap water) to ... ethanol sometimes has a small amount of methanol mixed in specifically to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  "hard coreness," so to 5p3a|<. We've seen it time and time again. Two ... stay up all tonight to start and finish a stupid HASS paper." Evoking ... four hours in the 6.002 laboratory trying to figure out how to use a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have ... to be my advisor.) The first half of the class meets with a Chemistry ... scientist to take a sample of a substance and figure out the structure of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . I could've still been in high school. I remember talking to a friend ... changed. MIT is a school. Not a reactor. Not a speedway to prestige or ... enough to require shade, so I moved from tree to tree as the clouds shifted

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  .00 teaches you to think like a computer scientist. Here is a sampling of topics ... .g. "what a function looks like”) and the psets require the students to, say ... that? We've also had to program hangman and Scrabble. Making a working

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  quite simple: MIT has a middle school crush on weird ... building, all are a little different than your ordinary structure. While some ... , building 56. It sits right at the end of the infinite, next to the NEWLY

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  I've been promising for a while that I would post some pictures from ... with my other entries. I spent the summer working as a research intern in Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by a research fellowship from the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  , we must attend to some newly uncovered facts from our past. A ... a brief break from committee to attend a live webcast and discussion ... to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  help make it a better place. It's very, very hard to see the Class of ... but posted a bunch of photos to Facebook so go look at them there ... admit I'm a bit sentimental about this particular commencement. The Class

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  It has been a tragic week here. On Monday, the Boston Marathon was ... , and another is reportedly on the run in Watertown, a city that borders ... , MIT has cancelled classes today, and is urging employees to stay home

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  and emails, and loaded everything into our system. If you are a prospective member of the Class of 2016, this would be a mighty good time to log ... received a direct message from him. If you have missing components - relax

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  It's a stressful time. Finals are starting, decisions are coming out ... could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs shall provide. This list is not intended to be comprehensive by any means

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  (a) they're pretty much the same person so their banter is fun to watch ... revealed.) So the three of us had lunch today. Allow me to share an example of (a) from said lunch: She: You're a nerd. He: No I'm not. She: Yes

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers ... Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  generally well-liked. I mean, it's a lecture hall, it's hard to love a lecture ... offense to the 10-250 chairs, they're a nice purple shade but they just aren ... with the AWESOME AMAZING HUGE desk it sports. The desk is mounted to a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  are good photographs. I was going to leave the party and go out with a ... lights of Black Bemis and talked, which is a popular quiet-night activity ... after they graduate. I enjoy talking to them - well, most of them

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to ... to buy as a gift for their family, friends, and loved ones. (continued ... talk to people. MIT Beantown Shirt – Yes, "Beantown" is a nickname for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  'm tired from 90 straight minutes of talking, but it was great to talk to a ... time for a quick break, then go talk to prospective members of the ... bad as I'd feared, but the rain is starting to pick up a bit now. At

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  Oh look, how interesting. MIT seems to have won an Olympic gold medal at Torino. All photo credits go to Matt Peddie '09. A pretty nighttime shot from far away. Note how the medal design has a hole in the middle

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006