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  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you ... happy, and enjoy the small distractions of life. Graduating high school is a huge achievement and will still lead to new beginnings; welcome them

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  be for the next few days and weeks. So though I've got a bunch of ... , who was admitted to the class of 2015, is a professional yoyo-ist. Yoyo-er. The man has serious skills with a yoyo. He's already got plenty of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  So the other day at work, I was sitting at the bottom of one of the water slides. And I was bored out of my mind. There were about 3 people in ... week. Whenever I'm at a spot with any kind of cascading water (which is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  vienna & prague, in 194 photos iap '26 #1

  

  Schonbrunn, I headed back into the thick of town and ate at a very famous ... around some streets before arriving at Hofburg Palace in the middle of ... ="121865" /] At the base of the river again, I saw a bunch of people walking up and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  good. I burn through that stuff at the speed of light. I think my body is ... lot of error. Here's a list of my very own freshman housing horror ... big fan of it. What I am not a fan of is bugs. So naturally, I was very

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  that one of my friends wrote. You can look at the web.lab schedule here ... .lab[/caption] At the end of week 4 is the awards ceremony, because web.lab isn’t just ... that I need to buy a new laptop. I do hope that my laptop can last me at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  , there’s a lot of “darn I can’t take class A if I take class B because they have mandatory lectures at the same time, but if I push back class B to ... ’re notified of whether you have a spot in that class are subject to the whim of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... Department of Defense, so his family lives on Okinawa, and it would have been ... an American suburb. We took the commuter rail out of South Station on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  you at that time." Some of you have graduated already and have no new ... The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at http://my.mit.edu. To announce this, Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  : Outline for Today's Lecture Oxidation Reactions of Alkenes Dihydroxylation Ozonolysis The Chemistry of Free Radicals Addition of ... really choose to learn about it. It just sort of happened. In case you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  4th of July Celebrations Boston, and the MIT campus, are great places to celebrate the 4th of July.

  

  arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has a front ... concert occurs at Boston's Hatch Shell, a concert venue on the Esplanade, a ... and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  Year Grade Report it says to return the form at the end of the second ... -year grade report at the end of January. Also, a quick question about ... ! Some of these go back pretty far, but better late than never

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  February 2006. In the Fee Lab, she studies the brains of beautiful little ... of time learning basic lab techniques like how to slice brain tissue ... each other within a certain area of the bird’s brain, and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  a bit. 12:15pm. I meet up with a friend for lunch at Cosi, one of my ... relatively smoothly. A few of the ECs come onstage at the end to introduce ... super nice and looks almost brand new - one of the nicer rooms I've seen

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the ... flow of things, to figure out how classes work at MIT without having to ... could have been, though at the time I didn’t think that much of it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  about some of the things I did to avoid thinking about decisions. Hopefully some of these help take your mind off of college, even if just for a ... 't hold any of these quizzes to have any merit or influence in my life, but

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  at the end of an Ashante concert. (This is NOT an endorsement of ... it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber-serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  of 2007. Happy New Year and Good Luck! ... I've been reading a lot of the comments about the applications that ... , but I got hit by a jolt of admissions reality just now. 1. The deadline

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  happened, and it was okay, and there were a lot of new players and it was ... friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with some excellent puzzles. it's written by teammate, and i know lots of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  we will notice that the set $A$ must lie at the intersection of the ... -Schwarz inequality. There are a bajillion (or rather, at least 12) proofs of this ... 's it. And yet, when I look at the proof in all of it's glory, I think to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024