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  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  around the corner. While I hate to distract you from the application, essays, standardized tests and teacher recommendation letters (not to mention school and real life), I do need to mention one vital part of the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  deposited my belongings in McCormick Hall, and proceeded to video-chat excessively with friends I’d already begun to miss. I haven’t had much time for ... pre-orientation group, spent several minutes trying to pick flawless

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  on campus were doing the same thing with the same purpose: to take part in A Day In The Life, a project open to the entire MIT community ... , and staff alike have been uploading their photos to the website, which

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  was an MIT student who didn't have quite enough credits to graduate ... opted to stay another year in order to finish up and graduate. One day ... , way to make an insulting, totally useless reply to the entire dorm

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.

  

  ://decisions.mit.edu. You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log ... sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to ... . To reiterate: don't wait for decisions to arrive via email or snail

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  best color in the box. From the ages of 3-10, my life goal was to be quarterback for the Detroit Lions, though I was eventually was forced to give ... they come one right after another. I happen to be a bit of a nerd. I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  insight into how you all might be feeling right now - how, to be perfectly ... wherever you finally find yourself for college, whether that happens to be ... directly ahead of you. I know many of you find it hard to picture yourselves

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  -overdue things. I found an entry that Mikey wrote for me that I had intended to publish this past spring. The summer snuck up on me before I had a chance to, and I decided to wait until now instead of posting it in June - this

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a ... friend, and another guy have started a company. He wants to take a year to devote himself fully to the start-up. And he's trying to get a freshman I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  CPW is finally over, which basically means I'm back to sleeping again ... getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  , physically, intellectually, and emotionally reacting to the three weeks I spent in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the rural village where we were supposed to stay and perform water testing for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1 ... , regardless of author. You will no longer have to check each blogger's box to ... entire subnav - one click from the homepage will take you to any other

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  happened this week. - Thanks to a freight derailment in Idaho, I spent most of Tuesday on a bus from Montana to Washington state. - Last night, my ... to dinner following a "signing of the forms" (see above). We've had a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? John Stamos, better known to millions as Uncle Jesse ... , impressive water vapor transport properties, and is resistant to many common ... to take either the 2" (50.8 mm) or 4" (101.6 mm) wide rolls, one can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  2010, I'd like to take an opportunity to thank the many awesome faculty ... at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works to make metal ... help the world transition from a fossil-fuel-powered world to an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  beyond the call of duty to process the 40,000+ application pieces as ... us at this time to check on the status of your application or to see if ... three weeks for us to process all of these application materials

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  next week, and teachers aren't allowed to schedule any exams or major ... tickets to the BSO through the college card program. They were doing an a ... . MIT pays for college cards, so basically anybody willing to brave the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at ... grad schools to which I'm applying are setting up their online

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  another hint. Typically on my commute to work, I read the Boston Metro. It ... restauarant Mitra introduced me to. There, they'd be talking about the new ... they've done a lot of work with the project and hope to have the

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005