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  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  , students, other parents, and fellow future classmates. We enjoy food as we ... about high school, potential majors, and what we wanted to be in our futures. At one point, we sat down and listened to a sophomore tell us

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  -powered prism and sprays rainbows down the walls. While adjusting my standing desk and settling into my morning routine, I looked, as I so often do, out through the trees, onto the lawn, past the enormous catapult, and across the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  (a friend Matt O. on the other hand would swear by their chicken and ... restaurant on Boylston St. that's centrally located and reasonably priced ... is complete without sides? Then comes the rice and the beans and the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  quite so. I'm a senior who's majoring in Course 4 Architecture and will ... Computers and Engineering Problem Solving - also known as programming in Java ... must not leave MIT without being able to robustly code something and 1

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  transportation) of MIT -- driving and parking in Boston is not a good experience ... campus as Weston, Massachusetts, and as far away as Singapore. There will ... Diego, Miami, Denver, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, and many more. RSVP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  roommate Mike '13 and I did a quick calculation. Approximating the igloo we built as a half sphere with an inner radius of 7 feet and an outer radius ... quick internet query and are not 100% sure about), then the igloo weighs

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  studio and not come out…till the wee hours of the morning. I think I recall ... , lots of music, and great company! This past Tuesday night ... – and they continue partying on with techno music, classical music

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  Yesterday, I briefly deserted my physics and orgo psets and headed ... : the RA admits! I think I got to call and congratulate about fifteen or ... is AWESOME. Those of you whom I spoke with were funny, nice, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  .112 (Principles of Chemistry) class at the moment. Luckily, my TA is awesome, and he ... on her history book and wake up knowing everything. 9. I get to eat ... me. 7. I can make fun of Aditya '13, Swetha '13, and Pooja '13. Why

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  below). Now, he's returning the favor and coming to visit us this ... and October each year, we travel across the country to give presentations about MIT. And, many folks come visit MIT's campus, whether it's for

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  battle, and hiking have to do with each other? hmmm... If you guessed ... this summer and I'm currently looking for an apartment somewhere near the ... resistance and thus being able to maintain a current without a voltage. The

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  , and it reminded me of the good times at MIT. Well, in Honduras, but ... the big picture of Development and more on Design; every group of four students chooses one project and follow it through over the course of a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  The deadline for Early Action has come and gone. I hope all of you who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview ... various projects you worked on or groups you belonged to and worked with

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  Trivia: Who was the first student blogger for MIT Admissions? And who ... excitement and agony of the application & selection process. Some of the ... : "In a paragraph or two, describe to us a YouTube video, and why it is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  say, and yet so many of them don't attach well to words - only to strong feelings and emotions, the way certain songs bring back the intangible moments of one's childhood. I think I'll just start with the facts and save

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  FOUR bloggers blogged today, and only Snively mentioned this fact ... . Anyhow, I just wanted to point out and celebrate the 5th Leap Day in my ... it doesn't count because my birthday is in December, and I have already

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  wisdom surrounding deadlines and missing application pieces. Let me say ... received after that date are accepted and will catch up to your file. Around ... , thousands of pieces of mail a day. Between the US mail and processing delays

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  hall, and there was a line at the door. I hope you get the idea. He ... coordinates and a date. The coordinates, it turns out, pointed to a park here in Cambridge and the time was September 23rd, 2007 at 2:38pm. It became a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  times. "Is MIT really like CPW?" The answer is, yes and no. Yes, in the ... activities happen, and give you an opportunity to experience all of these ... MIT, all smushed up into one tiny weekend package for you to sample and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  about two weeks like it sometimes always is: time for Q and A! Anonymous ... when MITBlogs was a wee little thing, there was Matt, Ben, and Mitra ... officers actually created an application and a committee to determine the '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007