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• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  times so students can come in after their full-time commitments. 42 is a ... every day. If you can get through the four weeks in the “swimming pool ... . Last week, I attended a fascinating xTalk by Lou Guenier

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our minds, and the early action deadline about a week away, I figure this is a ... unforeseen tragedies. Obviously, any of these things can make it hard to apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  I am not your typical MIT student. In high school, I never built a ... Track teams here at the ‘tute, in which I get to hang out with some of the ... you told me I’d be a varsity athlete in college. Now, I run the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  freshman year was cut abruptly short, i'm doing this post now instead of in ... just added songs that were significant in some way or other/songs that i ... song that i found in early October and really liked.  Drunk Drivers

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  'm just a girl working in a bakery.) I've lived in California all my life, where it's okay that I wear t-shirts and flip flops in December. When it ... in the same place, I don't stay there for long. I spent half of my last

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  For many years I have written these blog posts from a cubicle in room ... now, and for you, too. I said this earlier in the annotations, but ... longer there, ask me in the comments about the hidden vault in the secret

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  session, I am asked a question like this: Is it true that MIT has the ... ; in fact, MIT is better than the national average1. However, this is a ... hair-pulling by even the brightest students. But in the rare cases of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  Our first full day in Haiti yesterday was exciting and informative, but also exhausting - I actually fell asleep while writing this last ... meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  set in and I can feel a warm blanket of drowsiness wrap around my tired ... turning in the wrong direction. 12:06 PM – I realize that I typed the wrong ... butterfly behind the stag's ears.    12:52 AM – I am in charge of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  (although I’m under the impression they took place in MIT’s Edgerton Center ... Last week, six of MIT’s most illustrious professors gathered in 26-100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo of the Day – Installment #1 Photo of the day #1

  

  While I try go get in the swing of things with the start of the semester, I'll begin what I hope will become a new tradition (pending the availability of interesting enough photos. Here's the first one and I think it

  • by Bryan
  • September 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Mail Date: March 11 Hang in there guys, I know this is a crazy stressful time.

  

  . If that slips for any reason, I'll let you know. Less than a week until I get to shave... NICE Hang in there guys, I know this is a crazy stressful time. I'm thinking lots about all of you. :-)

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on ... also all had their shot, and knowing in my head who I would have voted ... opt for absentee ballots at home. I'll be voting in Connecticut this

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D ... sacrifice, right? I'm working on designing something that makes ... /Malawian/Ghanaian dirt compares to dirt commonly found in, say... Massachusetts? Or what

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert An annual tradition bringing famous bands to campus.

  

  highlights include the always-popular International Fair ("I-Fair"), the ... Concert. Here are some of the highlights from past years. In parentheses are the band's most popular song (according to iTunes) and my favorite song

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  freshman year when I stuffed every single thing in my room into cardboard ... off, my friends and I were squished together in the front of a U ... Boston. It was a miracle that I ever made it to the airport in time. Then

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  My childhood best friend changed schools in 8th grade, so I didn ... optimistic, and thought that if I am just honest in my application, wherever I ... so at first. In senior year of high school, I was not understanding AP

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist who ranked MIT but was not matched still apply for EA and/or RA?

  If you're a Finalist who ranked MIT but weren't matched, you're welcome to enter our Early Action or Regular Action cycle. We'll send an email in early December outlining the options available: You may use
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  that I've actually done, including getting published in the Tech. In ... , that's a nice reasonable list. In case you're wondering, I've done 24 of ... Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  for feedback in the last entry. :-) I will be creating some in-depth entries about projects as I decide what exactly to write about! In this second post of a three-part series, I will showcase some vacant rooms in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006