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• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  many kinds of awesome, your grade is going to be 1/4 of it for 4 years ... . That $20 in tech cash they give you? Use it right away for non-food (buy ... , 24/7. And it's not half-bad. CPW should be more or less free. Don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  , September 1st (2-3:30, Johnson Ice Rink): The GEL program will have a booth at ... , unrelenting rain, and chilly temps since the weekend. Welcome back to Boston…or ... weather attempts to dampen our moods, campus-wide excitement will not be

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  a waitlist place, or how many students we will ultimately admit from ... Tomorrow, I expect MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, will publish ... students than last year: an increase of 1 student, to 1554. Thus, our admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  for MIT's Global Teaching Labs, which sends students abroad to teach in ... "]MISTI,[/annotation] or just independent travel in general. Anyways, it's getting late and ... some work with the school, or maybe even after my weekend trip to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  ideal bus for ladies, or if the lack of apostrophe indicates that only ... :31." "Ahh, yes, I'm so sorry.." "When is the next one?" "11:10. You can buy ... 't." My crying has never gotten me out of getting shots, bad grades, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  will: I am currently living on a Navajo reservation, forty miles from the ... prepare for the winter, and that "about half…live in hogans and/or house ... at school, I don’t have much to report about the students or about the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  or clean shift every 1-2 weeks, and house members also use in ... today that needs snacks, so I head to HMart to buy them with house budget. I end up buying a bunch of stuff that’s coincidentally green: wasabi

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting the new bloggers! With a new school year approaching, it's time to pick the next set of bloggers.

  

  . Short Answer Essays Short answer #1 - In a paragraph or two, describe ... has become the tradition, the blogger selection committee will include this year's senior bloggers: Laura and Lulu. Our objective will be to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  , focusing not on research, classes, or academic life, but who the professor is as a person. We invite professors to ~1 hr interviews (over tea!), that ... showing the everyday side of professors will help bridge student

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  natural-looking terrain or peaks and valleys.  more specifically, say we ... sun, i thought. i will go in the direction the sun sets: i will find out ... until i reached the shore again. i came across broken nether portals

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  have included this, this, and this), discuss each other's writing, or ... hope to become an astronomer (or a physicist) without knowing how to code ... my solution will get graded. To my delight, my theoretical training in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  (relatively) neutral color palette bags [carousel image1="100259" image2 ... (mostly) [carousel image1="100279" image2="100266" image3="100275" image4="100272" /] the rgb trio title says it all [carousel image1="100269" image2

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  It's been nearly two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and I ... students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or ... , it was 64 percent. Unfortunately, this means that we will not be able

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

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  current goals: #1 Videos Portlet MyMIT just partnered with MIT World, and the hope is to have a portlet that will display various streaming video ... Portlet OCW, or Open Courseware, has cataloged its offerings by subject. We

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) I wrote ... memes or naps. I didn't truly appreciate the value of either of these ... want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  1 in 12. The odds of spinning again are 2 in 12, or 1 in 6. The odds ... *snively will be mad I beat him at posting this* *not anymore, curse ... everything a professor says, or I listen and understand while he's talking and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine ... anything specific I wanted to buy, so I grabbed stuff at random, which turned ... desperation. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Kjf2kaOFGPEi3vZXyELB0?si=MO2lh

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  calling a trapeze a 'trap' is a universal thing or if it is just what my ... ; [carousel image1="59948" image2="59947" /] Step One: Strip it down As you ... place. [carousel image1="59949" image2="59950" /] Step Three: Velvet

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  really no hope for me. instead, i will blog randomly yet again to tell you ... , the fact that it was Mes Latino, or Hispanic Heritage Month. Now, there ... email address, and its kfig at mit dot edu. Let's try to keep that

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  these events? ALL OF THE FOLLOWING happened at roughly the same time: 1 ... /Treasurers/Important People in student groups on campus, where they will discuss how to apply ... on TVs, hard drives and iPods... what did I buy? I don't know, but I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008