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  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  -Off in August (read about Summer Send-Off experience here)). Prepare for ... universe, and everything with an awesome group of people and free food! If ... inspired me to then start sorority rush in the fall of freshman year

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  best place in the universe. As for whether that’ll last, who knows? Maybe ... Daniel M. ’14. It was ten at night, and in the East Campus courtyard ... legal?” Crowds stared in awe at the towering EC rollercoaster, which stood

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  about your living situation in spring, and though we can't offer you ... In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... happens in the week first-years get to happens"]REX.[/annotation]Then, frosh

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  . The following day, I got an email with an offer for a spot in the ... I'm studying abroad next semester at ETH Zurich in Switzerland! (Or ... friends and I had considered taking part in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among ... well in your quest to learn more about MIT. [read more] Ben's First Sentimental Post: December 16, 2004 In what would become his trademark, this is

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

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group ... country and around the world. Spending time in settings like these is ... in question because educational institutions have abdicated their

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  . The First Parish in Cambridge hosted a Q&A book-signing with cult ... or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it big. And it looks like people understand that now: my audience in Des

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  of being in a fraternity is visiting chapters at other universities ... in Boston by June 9th for Commencement.   Day 1, Wednesday 5 ... chapter of the University of Washington, nicknamed "Phi Pools". One of our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  at MIT, centered at the Mediated Matter group in the Media Lab but ... the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn ... Matter Group in collaboration with MIT's Department of Mechnical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  assembled in my floor lounge singing the original Pok√©mon theme song making its way like sweet nostalgia to my ears, I’m in good and plentiful ... , randomly, after turning in an 18.01A pset about a week ago. Certainly, the

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  the beginning of the universe (read:Big Bang). In doing so they hope to ... this morning, but we’ll ignore that for the sake of sensationalism). In ... at the thing. From for blog Whoa, yea it's big. In fact it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  college fairs. The largest was held at Columbia University, in New York City ... known as the college application process. In some ways this entry ... I say welcome! Come on in, the water is just fine. I hope that you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  Cancer Research, and in November, CCR director Tyler Jacks shared the 2005 ... -cancer drugs produced by molecular medicine--Herceptin, approved by the FDA in 1998; and Gleevec, approved in 2001. Nobel Prize-winning work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  , sustainable difference in how well and quickly students learn, how much they ... build the extended university community. Microsoft goals * Create new ... excellence in teaching, with a focus on creating experiential learning

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  colleges and universities to join us in demystifying the admissions process ... This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see ... any of you, I'll be so relieved to have made it there in one piece that

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  meetings in Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida; overall, we will visit 70 cities in the next 6 weeks. You can see if there is a session near you and RSVP here. On Wednesday, I will fly to Florida in preparation for my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  -MIT Institute that promotes partnership happenings between the two universities ... late but it was great to see other MIT students again. Since we live in ... -togethers. I see the other two MIT students in Course 1 (civil engineering

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  French class, our "final" consisting of a one-page composition in the past ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... be marooned in the desert. Sure, I arrived on campus, picked up my new

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  Giant celebrations in Boston/Cambridge last night for the Red Sox' big comeback victory against the Yankees in the American League ... Chronic Not the same few colleges: The University of California at Santa

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  of job offers, but honestly, most people around me are in the same ... hear back on an offer. However, it is stressful to go on LinkedIn and see ... Most of the readers of this blog post are, in all likelihood

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019