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  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  Hello! I wanted to take this opportunity to provide an update on the admissions process. We have received approximately 15,600 applications for freshman admission this year. As you can see on the admissions statistics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  many times can get a little repetitive and even confusing (after about

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  back and answer the questions that I can (please limit your questions to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  warmth. American Airlines, you can take away the sweetness of my freedom to travel, but you can't take away the sweetness of cookies, which contain ... neurobiological sensory wiring, which you can't alter by canceling flights. I rest

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  thread: How much do I like MIT? The best answer I can think of is, more ... 't an expression that can be safely applied when you sleep on the top bunk ... had to study my name for a while, since there's no way I can re

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  this point, but maybe later I can tell you more about Honduras (There

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  Space Weapons" and everything in between. You can check out some of the ... events which happen more quickly than the human eye can detect. (WARNING: PDF...written by my 2.009 instructor, actually!)You can read a biography

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  It's been a busy week, and I've still got a lot on my mind. As long as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  plug for current students - if you want to be involved in iHouse, you can ... . I can't even count how many people I know in the current undergrad ... Splash! (plug#2 - Splash! is amazing - you can teach ANYTHING. ANYTHING you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  they necessarily know better, and you can't just tell them to shove it ... have been done. The biggest favor you can do for yourself is to treat pass/no-record as if it did not exist. Blow it off just because you can

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  's something to avoid if you can. It's unlikely to be the difference between

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  can't remember.), lost a pirate battle, had my lower left quadrant ... from sheer exhaustion, found out that minesweeper and tetris can be ... can almost tell from the picture below, the seemingly simple task of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  Use. This practice is also illegal and can lead to legal action against ... Agent Information Services & Technology, MIT Uh-oh. This can't be ... , you can copy and paste the entire link in to you email program, or

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  ? How many students were admitted Early Action? Luckily, I can refer most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  did my best. What can I say, I suck at goodbyes. Things I am grateful ... important, and the hardest to put into words. I can be a pretty big critic of ... verano! [red wine and lemon soda] Well, you can make it in the US, I guess

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  " "Kittens always hungry" "How can you tell if you are underfeeding your kittens?" "Can cats read minds" "Do cats have x-ray vision?" "Should I let ... ft in the air raising a ruckus just because they can talking to me like

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  clothing with the help of TechCash, but since I can't do that anymore I find ... nondisclosure agreements I can't tell you about them. I'll try to write an entry about work shortly and fill it with as much stuff as I can but I'll have

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: You can also listen to a more serious

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  Majors You can't do everything at MIT. But you can do enough. Laura: Tests ... ... Humor Laura: Mechanical Sense of Humor Sometimes engineering can be fun ... , any questions we can help with? That's part of why we're here, after all.

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  writing for me, I can't force myself to write something within a given ... essay the best it can be. This post is called "discovering yourself ... out what matters in your life, transferred it to paper, and can only

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008