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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  and headed southwest. Assuming a trajectory of 42.6 degrees for said ... process, we must also be careful to provide a broad spectrum of the MIT ... decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles ... much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  offer as the regular part of the aforementioned hike. The benefits that ... . Anyways, we had two motivations for this trip, and one of them was hiking the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. This is one of the most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  offer. A lot of people are wary of the statement that "CPW is fake - you ... myself this weekend, courtesy of you guys: 1. I apparently do not look like ... that you guys start to head back to the four corners of America (and the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  universes waiting to be painted, and I just wanted to flood them out of my ... It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... for book lovers: MIT and the Greater Boston area have plenty to offer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  ). Also known as the father of inflationary universe theory and, apparently ... Universe - which is pretty mind-blowing, since we owe much of our theories on ... donned my most comfortable pair of sweatpants (Manchester United sweatpants

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  offer. And in the midst of all of that, take some time to get to know the ... hustle and bustle of the street had a certain magic to it. The cars were ... (earlier than me!). She stares outside of the window, amazed by the scene in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered ... awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing. This thing is TOFU. TOFU is the baby of Ryan Wistort, a grad student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , you should accept the offer of admission from another college before May ... I know that with all the hubbub for admitted students, some of the ... can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  tasks we put off during Selection. For me, this meant lots of returning ... reminded of an article I read a few years back:High schools work to ease stress in GPA competition At MIT, whether or not your school offers class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  the greatest benefits of coming to a university like MIT is that it ... -on-a-drum-with-a-stick thing.) Not only that, but our three hours of practice a week count as a class (21M.460), open to just about anyone with some sense of rhythm and a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First ... advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  University of Ghana’s Office of Research Innovation and Development (ORID ... Mr. Dogoe to reach out to a faculty member at the University of Ghana ... Emmanuel A. ‘18 is a member of my own class year (as is Pelkins A ‘18

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new ... can be. Check out this interactive visualization of the course here ... .5-hour meetings each week; there's a Food of the Month, Film of the Month

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  that MIT has to offer? He's the kind of person will read Marcus Aurelius ... he asked me one of those deep questions that help gage what kind of a mindset you have. It was something really general, along the lines of "what

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  friends of the community. When movies were a more universal experience in ... Growing up, I wasn’t always a fan of movies. It may have been an ... winners. I didn’t quite understand the draw of film buffs to the black and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... ", Texas whereby "Suburbia" I mean for my first year of high school, I lived in one of those neighborhoods where your elementary school was one

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  leaving school, to stay in the world of academia with masters degrees and ... until recently all of which begs the question: how do people who graduate ... transition from being at one of the greatest intellectual hubs on the planet to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  . SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p ... n00bs" and then immediate proceed thinking, "Wait I'm not one of you ... feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012