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  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  Last Tuesday was a big day for MIT's class of 2019. After two years ... tradition, and enter a mild panic for five minutes. This year's joke ring ... "! Ring delivery is such a milestone for underclassmen that I decided to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  of Moroccan Arabic, which I've learned has a word for everything as ... to do with linguistics, but I suppose MIT does offer a club for ... More than anything, I'd say that MIT offers a merciless crash course

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I send in my transcript?

  : If you send us a copy of your transcript while we are waiting for your ... All transcripts must be submitted by a school counselor or another school representative to be considered official. This applies for high
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name ... hosting and protecting anonymous comments, and having the option for a fully

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  be for the next few days and weeks. So though I've got a bunch of ... , who was admitted to the class of 2015, is a professional yoyo-ist. Yoyo-er. The man has serious skills with a yoyo. He's already got plenty of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  here is a puppy for your trouble: If you just skipped directly to ... great, until a catastrophic hard drive failure over spring break landed me without a way to recover my saved passwords in firefox (my partially

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  We’re Linux! "Aha, Linux beats paper!"

  

  . And now, here's a cute little something to brighten your day. Maybe I'm a little crazy, but isn't that just too cute for words? :) The ... entry, I'd really appreciate it if you took a moment to vote for it online

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  across the bridge threw me for a loop. I looked at the green building and ... something. . . but not tonight. I stared at this for a while. Why were there ... other buildings were lit up. I stared at this spotlight for a while

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  holed up in a suite reached us and we staged for another attack. After ... ! Please excuse the lolcat/EECS reference, it was a necessary evil. Surprise and happy New Year! There's a new kid on the blogs, halfway through the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  , alumni, and staff. On Monday, Andrew Fire, a professor at Stanford who received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co-developing a technique called RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi gives scientists the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  If you think MIT is all work and no play, let us take you for a spin ... spring and fall semesters, the Independent Activities Period is a special four-week term at MIT that fills the month of January. For more than 50
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will you send me materials/prospectus/t-shirt/pennant?

  requests for pennants, t-shirts, and other MIT items, but because we're a ... We appreciate your interest in MIT! We don't send a lot of mail (and we don't send any international mail), but you can sign up for our
• Blog / Events

  TELETHONNNNN brought to you by Domino's

  

  finished a three hour shift of the Admissions Telethon, calling to ... do you tell a high school senior during a surprise phone call on a ... Iwasjustcallingtocongratulateyouonyourearlyadmissionanddoyouhaveanyquestions?" The first few calls were just as surprising for me as they were for the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the ... ? How about a puzzle hunt at the MIT Museum written specially for MIT ... for sure. A day of science? Seriously, mom? “No, not just Science

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot of awesome classes. One of them is 6.131: Power Electronics. It's a lab

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in ... family went to watch them run drills at a nearby soccer field one afternoon ... opening-round game at Giants Stadium (I think) to cheer for the Azzurri

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  , MIT alum Nathanael Herreshoff created a revolutionary design for a ... . From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  for the 2014 Cena a las Seis was MIT Professor Junot Díaz. He spoke ... Cena a Las Seis is just another example of an event for both parents and ... Family Weekend was a lot of fun. I can't wait for the next one. Left side

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year! And so two thousand nine begins...

  

  this year - what's your new year's resolution? Best wishes for a safe ... Happy new year everyone! I'm hanging out at my sister and brother-in-law's new house, enjoying the snow and festivities. (By the way, for those who

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  !!!!!!!!!!!!) This is just a quick update on how life is for me right now (that's what these blogs are for, right? These are supposed to give you an inside look ... I should NOT be writing this right now because I have a ton of other

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008