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  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  I'm in Southern California now, preparing for the following Central ... statistics are freely available on the MIT website. What are the early action statistics? Is it easier to get in if I apply early? Last year, early action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  little more than 10 books as I’m in the middle of reading an eleventh book ... there was a general arc and story in the way the poems were presented and ... -like, but there were several gems in there that balanced those other poems out

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  were bad – hilariously bad in many cases. I vividly remember watching one video generated from the prompt “Soccer players in purple celebrate as the ... was nothing like the sleek videos OpenAI likes to tout in its demos

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  note="We have already emailed everyone who expressed an interest in ... decided to shift the deadline in part to provide[annotation note="As well as ... with all of our Regular Action applicants.   Thus, in observance of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  stand inside !!!). We also spent a good deal of time taking in the view of ... . (All the beautiful photos in the rest of this blog post are by Leif C ... is in good condition, but the paint on top of it is old and peeling

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  gather in a big fancy place, eat fancy food, dance, and take a bunch of ... fancy. But in my case, I mostly ran around and took pictures (as displayed below). Side Note: Allan is not in the first few (because we don't like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  .com, read all 1400+ comics, laugh, cry, fall in love, and then come back ... his lectures, celebrated his anniversaries, and replicated this comic in ...  called “What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions,” in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  in fellowship deadlines and requirements, graduate school applications ... . What do you do afterwards? If you want to continue in academia, you try ... astronomy, and get a job in industry, business, finance, teaching, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  most definitely didn't have a gratuitously-added picture - in which I ... , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year ... 's say you're a student who's interested in MIT, and you want to continue

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  One year ago, in the mush of schoolless boredom known as Spring Break ... in the superficial sense, bearing no deeper significance than that I could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  school. In my humble opinion, xkcd used to be a lot funnier than it ... of the facilities, but rather the character of the people who live in ... a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  the Art Scholars website:  “Established in 1998, the MIT Arts Scholars ... , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts ... writing this to share all the awesome ways that we have gotten involved in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  Dear Internet, No, I am not dead yet. I had a lot of great food in ... now back at MIT. I took a long nap in the library today. I can feel MIT's gaping maw ready to swallow me whole again. In other words... BRING IT ON

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  .P classes because of the budget cuts in my school. So only the students with ... 't have any A.P classes and I'm not in the Intel Science program in my ... classes, we cannot expect you to take them. Also, not being in the Intel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  I'm in Washington, D.C. today for a work trip, so I write this blog ... the D.C. area. In retrospect, I should have just flown in last night and ... what it is about yet. In a Harvard class I took years ago, the lecturer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  In a public high school with about 700 people per class, there was barely enough room to walk in the hallways, let alone room for much ... . These came in many forms. First, they were coding errors. It was the first

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  photos, plus Bryan SOAKING WET! One thing Bryan didn't do in his busy ... phone call at around 1 AM (which is only 10 PM in Northern California ... she wasn't entirely in favor of heading down to the Hatch Shell this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  participate in research?” tells us you have hardly looked at the website. Just ... and have interviewed 50+ applicants in the places work and life have ... , and New Haven, CT. I’m currently working on a joint MBA/PhD in

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  all websites submitted. We will look at all papers in your folder, so ... your question is more in-depth, you may wish to call the Admissions ... in the country. The past five editions of Fierce have earned

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  , have them ready! I was lucky last year in that my host was someone I ... be :) If you've checked out the CPW website, you will have noticed a ... the events I wanted to attend at last year's CPW by ranking them in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010