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  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  old girl at nerd camp yelled at me for being part of the globalist illuminati responsible for the common core 2) I'm trying to learn to spin ... blogger? The mission of the blogs is to help prospective students understand

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  .900 klæs lɛktʃɚz.) Hi! Normal English here. If you can't read the above ... give an overview of the IPA symbols that are used in English. By the time you're done here, you should be able to make out most of the above text

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  über Christa T. (The Quest for Christa T.) by Christa Wolf   ... the good I could do for the world) and would maximize, if I could only be prescient enough to solve for the best combination of choices. Once

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot. One of the people we'd been kicking it around with is Kellen Manning, the communications coordinator for MIT Student Life and erstwhile

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  'm sticking to my good friend, the air-boot-cast. Before you all go "WHAT DID YOU DO???" let me tell you about the last time this happened. Go ... multiple times a day. It started out with small jogs to the museum of science

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: Holly on applications, art, and action team an experiment in the sounds of admissions

  

  Earlier this summer I sent out an email to the office asking if anyone who doesn't blog would like to be interviewed for the blogs. A few ... have received something that she's made in the mail. Holly is a Senior

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 4, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we ... interested in MIT, and so forth. In the meantime, you may talk amongst

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  international students.   MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the ... .mit.edu < < < You can log in using the same username and password ... 't wait to welcome them to campus to join the 4,512 outstanding

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we ... interested in MIT, and so forth. In the meantime, you may talk amongst

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  Counselor send (or resend) the missing materials via that service. (Again ... ; sending duplicate copies will only slow the processing of your documents.   Be aware that if your tracking page says you are missing the

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing ... placed on the sac tab is automatically up for grabs. This is usually food, but in the past I have acquired both a pair of jeans and a Snuggie

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio ... ’ve stopped taking in the words that are coming out of my mouth. Before I knew ... . And then my professor threw the last bomb. Now I’m questioning if you

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  tedious and time-consuming" class. The past three weeks have validated that ... the past 4 days working on 6.005. Our assignment is to create a Sudoku ... 's been an outpouring of overwhelmed-ness amongst the 6.005 student body

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  The other day I tried to hard-boil eggs for the first time. The first batch came out underdone, but a friend gave me a different method and the ... can't seem to find a place that makes good ones in the area). I had

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  international students. Hi! We have one week until the Early Action (EA) deadline, November 1. I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the common deadline-time questions. There are many answers already here on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or lack thereof) and learn more about the sisters in my sorority while

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  As it says in my introduction, I used to sing in the MIT Logarhythms (an all-male a cappella group), and still keep up with the group as a "logalum". Recently, they released their first music video, promoting the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  in. This is one of the best parts of summer in my mind. Whether you actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... about you, but I love to be reading a few books at the same time

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Vol. III Everyone gather 'round the laptop 'cause it's movie time!

  

  So while Rachel has been Facebooking, Jenny has been getting into poopy situations, and Anna has been dancing the night away in Cambridge, I ... 's a video. Boom. Sorry in advance for the singing. If any of the other

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • July 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, class of 2012. The topics of my application essays were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011