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  Roller Coasters and Dance Parties Sunday was the East Side party! Lots of loud music and prefrosh!! Still, no fun.

  

  East Side and prefrosh (now frosh!?!?)  from all around MIT came to see the fantastic roller coaster and fort for themselves.  Everything felt super safe and awesome. Here are some videos and pictures that I took

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  California for Christmas, enjoying balmy daytime weather and good home cooking. Already, I find myself missing Boston and MIT, and I'm looking forward to the spring classes and to my return in January, when I'll be taking a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office. Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor. His ... the only remaining wookie. I must go now and weep gently. May my beard

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  The leaves are falling like snowflakes and sometimes when the sun ... fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is ... absence of any real comparable seasonal changes, are idealized and heavily

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What programs does MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) offer?

  MITES (MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science) runs ... and underserved students interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Since 1975, their programs have provided enriching
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  that documents my time here at mit...but i'm really lazy and it's difficult to compile footage all together and i'm really trying my best. but ... scientific and technological advancement, as well as close to one of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  , simply send a message to [email protected] and we'll be happy to take ... best job in the world. And then I [think about the admit rate], and I ... -job-in-the-world (this year's admit rate) and 88.4% this-job-sucks. Except... while in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  were Eric and Ann Whaley. Last night, an MIT Police officer was killed ... , and another is reportedly on the run in Watertown, a city that borders Cambridge and Boston. MIT and Boston people are following the news on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  ) and it was close to Halloween: my birthday. My little sister poked her ... my towering intellect and spirit, and not the combination of bushy brown hair and big front teeth. The third time was a little more peculiar

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  bit too often, writing this actual post got pushed further and further ... Afeefah and we're rolling out looking for MIT's greatest Diners, Dig-Ins and ... the biggest one on campus. With an ample amount of seating and multiple

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  Two years and 363 days ago I was on a plane home from Tenerife, two days after my eighteenth birthday and a few hours after MIT decisions ... decision for me and I might have hunted for wifi at intersections. When we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  between the semesters to relax, recharge, recoup, and reflect*. But somehow ... , which, despite the excitement and adventures, has wrought havoc on my ... the last two; I just started with ‘relax’ and ‘recharge’ and then felt

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  doomscrolling — but first and foremost among them, its architecture:   many of MIT’s buildings have their own quirks and eccentricities. none of ... thirty-nine windows? well, you get used to it. and then you start taking

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  return as a JC a few months later. And when my offer popped up in my inbox ... one, our weekends are Sunday and Monday, instead of Saturday and Sunday, which is exactly the kind of thing I get used to right when camp ends. And

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  Back in Massachusetts! And Rush stuff is starting! *excited* There ... the freshman point of view and one from the upperclassman point of view ... incoming frosh, remember, take it seriously and go look at places! I don

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  waitlisted students and transfer applicants are feeling a little left out. So ... not we will use the waitlist this year, and if so how many students we ... reconvene and discuss the waitlist. You can see a lot of answers about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  little darker than my avatar's and when I smile in real life, my face looks ... ), and then my brower froze when I was about to publish and I lost the ... MITx and OpenCourseWare), meaning that I never actually left this place

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  and Brazilian descent. So every year the senior class sponsors a really ... , Bryan had the awesome idea that he, Mitra, and I would go as i^, j^, and k ... some other engagement that he found more pressing. Suddenly, Mitra and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  , anecdotes, lots of links, and coherent structure, and then only getting around to writing them once a week...I'll just write stuff. About my life and all. And we'll see how that goes. So, catching up on everything ever

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  of you who applied Early Action have received your decision, and those ... Blog World despite how hosed I've been, and I've been watching how applicants have reacted to their decisions, and what they've been saying in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005