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  Happy Pi Day

  

  to pick up your UMA pi day T-shirt! All contest winners get pi ... in room 2-102** the UMA (undergraduate math association) will be holding the following festivities in honor of pi day: Pie baking contest Pi

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Very, Very Important News That title is written to tantalize your RSS readers.

  

  in the next few days; in the meantime I really need to say something ... Hi folks, Today was the 8th day in a row of selection committee. Everyone is super tired, but we'll all get a bit of a break soon and we

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 24, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

  social sciences to getting rigorous training within their area of ... foundation for study in your major. In your second semester, you might add subjects to help you explore your anticipated major. MIT’s GIRs ensure that
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  to write things down. Fully immersing myself in every single moment ... lifetime experiences. In between visiting sangomas (traditional healers) to ... in Boston. They shiver at the thought. They ask to decorate my face

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ![/annotation] You are required to swim 4 laps in the pool without stopping, with 3 ... in a pool deep enough for me to have to swim since I was, like, 8. So ... ; I don’t know how to swim. I got two and a half laps in when I realized

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went ... to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... Questbridge College Admissions Conference at Yale. The idea in a nutshell is to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  there so that the freshman can get the best idea of where they want to ... you can re-rank the dorms you'd like to live in. Maybe REX changed your ... voodoo. I seem to remember that most people get their first or second

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  . When I came by to pick up the key the person in charge was flustered and ... week but that I and my students were not to eat anything while in the ... me meant, ultimately, getting into MIT, leading to some unknown secure

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  if I’ve ever been the first person to do <obscure thing> in < ... Christian Science, which happens to be of the most beautiful buildings in ... playground to squeeze in concentrated spurts of productivity between casual

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the ... minutes total, no matter where I’m going: I get to leave later and not be ... is great for now but once it gets unbearable (in the real winter) I

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  inspired me to then start sorority rush in the fall of freshman year. Convince the adMITs to come to CPW. Getting them to come to campus is the best way to help them find their place at MIT. Get advice from alumni

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  as I stare at my completed 7.014 exam. I get up to hand the thick packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  doesn't seem that far away from yesterday. Now, I just want to fill in ... -raiser for a mission/community service trip to the Philippines in April of my ... teaching SAT (probably it was an opportunity to finally "get back" at ETS for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  to get involved in student government, because the only student ... force behind it, that I meant to come out in Tuesday's edition. It's about ... . Unfortunately, I didn't get my column in on time, and the next issue of the Tech

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  easy thing to do in the two weeks between finals and graduation, take a ... shopping on Newbury Street See a Red Sox game in Fenway Go to Faneuil Hall Get funnel cake in Downtown Crossing Go on an MIT snowriders ski trip

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  dumb"]enroll[/annotation]in[annotation note="Intro to Computational ... . Do I really want to major in 6-9 or 11-6, or am I actually just interested in 9 or 11? Do I feel called to Course 6, or do I feel required to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  turns entertaining my little brother, and somehow, I managed to get him to ... , and got picked up by an auntie to go to my grandparents’ house in Fuxin ... aunties that lived in the area tried to take us clothes shopping, and with

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  disruption. We always strive to evaluate applicants fairly in their context, especially in times like these. I'm writing today to reaffirm what Chris said in that post, and to expand upon it. As Dean of Admissions and Student

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  joys of running bridge loops in Boston. Afterwards, I decided to take a ... drained. I needed to re-discover why I needed to be at MIT in the first ... do whatever I set my mind to?" It's often easy to forget in the midst

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  meeting, he gave me a list of professors to get in touch with. One of them ... we could actually get to all my questions. There’s now an e-mail thread ... my name in the blanks. Instead, we met in person to discuss my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012