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FAQ / Life and culture
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FAQ / Interview
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Blog / Events
Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.
I should be studying for my 1.00 and 3.091 exams right now...but I'm not. It has been a while since I uploaded a video, I have a lot of footage...but it needs to be edited. So get ready for an entry filled month -
FAQ / First-year application
How does MIT consider extracurriculars?
We read applications from students interested in everything from apiculture (beekeeping) to building nuclear reactors in their garages. We ... realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to -
Blog / Athletics
Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.
I always wondered what it would be like to go to one of those really hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last ... New England Regional (more details here). Now I've been to sports games -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Uh Oh Joke: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a bowl of ice…
I think I missed one of the most important holidays of the summer. National Ice Cream Day was on July 16, 2006. Even though I did not go get ice cream on Sunday, I will celebrate this holiday belatedly. The -
Blog / Advice
Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began
classes I decided to make this last video just sort of going through how MIT ... know that I got this blogger position through my really terrible quality, non-scripted, talking for too long videos that I used to make for the -
Blog / Admissions
LOLZ CATS In which he creates one of his own to explain his extended absence.
Have you guys all seen this silly thing? Yeah, I thought so. It already has its own Wikipedia page. I made you one. It will describe my life over the last few weeks better than any blog entry could. :-) (I -
Blog / Admissions
USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.
world send teams of 4-6 high school students to represent their nation in ... competitions -- concluded in Merida, Mexico. This year, 513 competitors from 93 ... themselves here). The problems are stated in a straightforward fashion, making -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia
in Cambodia, Zambia, India, Ghana, Honduras, and Brazil. Janet Li ... composting bins and a low-cost biodigester under the guidance of an expert in ... technologies from 18 households without electricity in Kien Svay, developing and -
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Blog / Academics & Research
Odds ‘n Ends There's a video. And a SONG. Your lucky day.
blogger, the one who always makes you go "How'd she get hired?" I'M BACK! Yay! And I made a video for you guys. Double yay! And I pulled out ... , Spring 2010) for the feature I like to call "Obligatory Doodle": Okay -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Something is coming.. Snively and I are working on something awesome.
Snively and I are working on something awesome. Look out for the release around the end of April: -
FAQ / Life and culture
Is there really a swim test?
requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test ... during the academic year. If you take the right mix of classes, you can -
Blog / About Decisions
Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden
contributed by MIT Institutional Research to the Common Data Set (i.e. what powers the US News & World Report and other rankings systems). Now, I ... distinction, but an important one in understanding the agency of admissions -
Blog / Admissions
Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…
aren't in the competition; they will be performing purely for our hearing ... sites and predict a winner! I'll think long and hard and make my -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread for Waitlisted Students
This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute ... waitlist. We will have more information for waitlisted students in the -
FAQ / Life and culture
What kind of study abroad programs are available?
Interested in studying abroad for an academic year in the U.K. or a semester in South Africa? Want to improve your foreign language skills by spending a summer in China or heading to Spain during the month of January -
Blog / Academics & Research
Vlogging about Course 3 and Applying to MIT A video in which I talk to myself and I am an awkward MIT student…
I did the vlog thing! I didn't take a video of a cat, but here is a picture of Rory:
