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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission ... students from the waitlist. Students who accept this offer will "unenroll" at ... college of those who have offered you admission. Waitlists are uncertain, so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small ... of the graduation requirements. Students at MIT are required to take ... to be good at broomball and everyone falls over constantly, which of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  Wellness Coordinator in New Vassar offered us a variety of stress toys to get ... kid and some of those dislikes have stuck with me, even at 19. I dislike ... the decision at all. A lot of my time at MIT is spent reflecting on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  flyers at the expanded hem of the skirt, to the sharp, skintight and clean ... in the Arts at MIT. He told us about the studio on the fourth floor of ... hearing about a new discovery from one of our labs. It reassures me that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  explanation of what a puzzlehunt is, so you can look at that. But the tl;dr is ... Perpendicular Universe, Exactly, Over 9,000: an Abbreviated Yet Awesome Tour Of ... proposal, each person could only be the author of at most one proposal

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  at the time. I bought these shoes at home in New York and brought them ... humanities major of some sort. I’ve been sad that at MIT I haven’t dabbled in ... learned that lots of people at MIT don’t carry their keys and just leave

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  family! El oso y el madroño: the mascot of Madrid At first I was hesitant ... of cultural exposure. After class, we were free to get lunch at the ... experiences so far at MIT. For the first nineteen and a half years of my life, I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  offering pizza at its 7 pm meeting? Tough luck, Chess club, Debate’s offering ... of looking at it), the Stand Up Rally is at Harvard at 7pm this Friday ... As a brand new bright-eyed freshman here, you’ll quickly discover

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  Michelin three-star restaurants in the U.S., one of five New York Times four ... of dried squid meat from a pungent Chinese grocery dig that sold at ... 's practically radioactive. At skin depth, Jean-Georges is the type of celebrity

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  . Everyone at MIT is required to take one "HASS-A", or "arts" class as part of ... had asked me at the start of the semester what I hoped this class would ... class, my teacher, who is a professional costume designer in New York

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  can't do it all here at MIT. So take advantage of opportunities that ... of the Charles River versus a trip to New Hampshire to try indoor ... so silly. Pointless even. When I arrived at MIT in the fall of 2009, I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  , but we wanted to add new aspects to this field by only looking at the ... ”, from the University of Warwick. I first read about it in the Math ... and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where is majors in ... prestigious Rhodes Scholarships to study next year at Oxford University in ... laboratory of Drew Endy, now an assistant professor of bioengineering at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  me introduce to you our new bloggers! Class of 2015:  ... - comprised of the communications team and our Class of 2012 senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  classes at my high school and the rest at a college, so i spent a maximum of three hours at school on most days. the rest of my time was spent doing ... of getting better at art, or feeling immersed in how enjoyable it is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  delayed by two hours and I was getting hungry. We arrive at New York, eat ... of my friends in high school who were coming to compete. We meet at ... before boarding our bus to New York. The bus ride was long. It was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  New York trip in February 3) Come from Away playbills... this musical ... This is the fourth and final installment of our sentimental objects ... usually include a picture of the ceramic mushroom itself in these posts. But

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  /really cool grown-ups. As a part of their “residency,” they put on events at ... the New York Times. It’s funny – while I never disliked watching sports ... at life outside of MIT every now and then. In any case, go Cards! And

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  revising my essays at every editing point. It’s pretty cool, and for those of ... at which I liked it. I showed you guys very little of the actual ... there were at least 6 or 7 large edits every 3 days. And sometimes, all of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  opportunity to recognize and encourage a new generation of makers and ... with plans to support the creation of 10 new community fabrication labs ... this paper was the incredible depth of making here at MIT. I learned that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014