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  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  spell check! Here are some of our "favorites" (and by "favorites", I mean ... when students write that they received an A in Engish instead of English ... Every year, the MIT admissions staff reads tens of thousands of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show Singing, dancing, juggling, and more!

  

  examples of a cappella.) Kim actually used to be in the Chorallaries, and I used to be in the Logs (back in our undergrad days). These are, of ... CPW officially begins tomorrow! I've spent the past couple months

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  .R. Hildebrand applied to MIT from a strong public high school in the Bay Area of ... sort of flipped out, "I remember immediately saying 'There's no way he ... Sunday in the Grand Prix of Sonoma at Infineon Raceway, the track where he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  of emotions leads individuals to document their experience in odd ways ... of the Brass Rat in lieu of an arc reactor seems to invoke imagery of ... Rachel R. '16 and Lesley W. '16. In a similar vein are the pictures of the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  the mixture because I had just finished working with yeast in the lab ... so the cake didn't rise but it took so long to prep that I put it in ... cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two ... participate in one of 22 Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs), which offer students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Room Tour 2017 edition

  

  2021s, can't wait to meet y'all this week! To give you guys a sneak peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film ... Friday night if you're here for CPW! I quote, See the folks behind the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  If there were an MIT blogger Hall of Fame, Mollie would definitely be in it. Mollie was a blog legend; her entries are still as relevant ... with degrees in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Science in 2006. Today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  It's raining in Boston today, but MIT students are smiling anyway, because today is the grand opening of Anna's Taqueria on campus! Anna's Taqueria is perhaps the best know Boston restaurant of the variety "cheap AND

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  nice photos in his latest post of the final class of 3.091: Introduction ... Hockey Aero/Astro 6 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1 Alumni goal: David ... .091 lecture and always concludes with a discussion of the chemistry of Champagne

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  schools. I'm not going to name any other schools here, because many of them ... One thing I like to talk about with prospective students is the fact that there are all sorts of folks at MIT. For example, there is no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  in its District regional competition. "I always wanted to go to MIT ... and Engineering Fair, the Center for the Advancement of Hispanics in ... successful and described her as the type of student they see once in their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San Francisco School of Circus Arts. After some short training on the ground ... jump! Wheeeee The goal of our session was to get our legs over the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Matt McGann ‘00 Name: Matt McGann; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Hampton Bays, NY

  

  Name: Matt McGann Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions ... , Class of 2000, Course 15 (Management Science) Favorite things about MIT ... idealism & commitment to the mission of helping the world Favorite things

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  to give in to Lukman—I estimate about 99% of us bought from him at some ... of the few times everyone could see everyone else in the school ... tiny lizard in his plate of rice. On some weekends, the more adventurous

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  and then besides watching traversing the MIT-verse? I asked a bunch of ... it was me, I would probably watch Ranking of Kings and listen to Few ... !! Scrapbook!! play w a dog!! Audrey ’24- I enjoyed going on runs and wandering

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Having Trouble Reaching Your EC? Some advice on getting in touch with your interviewer.

  

  know one EC who told me that some of her applicants’ emails wound up in ... [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact ... [email protected] or call the Admissions Office at 617-253-3400.]   I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  before settling into her own blog here in about a month.  I don ... Some random links I've been accumulating: The New York Times asks Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT's Poverty Action Lab about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  zygosity of same-sex twins based on the number of placentas, is in the right ... the last last cohort of bloggers, and if you remember reading it when ... ! And then she sent this to the blogger group chat, and our nicknames in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  Allan’s IAP in California! A hand drawn map of the area I was staying ... fill in! So we had dinner with two of the people who make the Crash ... i l l s 28) The program from the Sakata end of year Performance! We

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019