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• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  ! And, don't worry, if for whatever reason you don't get to talk to an MIT student tonight, there are plenty of other opportunities to do so. (We'll also try to make some more phone calls next Tuesday) Also, admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  project to reduce indoor air pollution in rural homes. We owe special ... Service Center and the Legatum Center, which funded it; and to our host in ... justice to our trip in this entry. We snapped well over 400 pictures, and we

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  start writing, though it took a minute to get to. I spent Thanksgiving ... responsibilities, would I have the self-discipline to still put in the work? I hope ... read the textbook. I went running. I forced myself to take a seat in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  University there that I hope to stay for a bit in LA and visit her before ... wanting to take a class at Harvard recently in order to experience a ... visiting Biola and getting the idea of Art History in my mind, I became

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  't portray yourself in your application as who you think MIT wants to see ... in mind. It was Tetazoo's turn last Friday, and to celebrate our ... backstage cooking act leads to a run-in with Tetazoo hallmates Noah '09 and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  letters each come in a standard #10 window envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). The other FAQ I've been getting is, why so few EA admits? 200220032004 EA ... committed to admitting no more than one-third of our class during early action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  "]P/NR.[/annotation] And it was, in some ways. PNR definitely made it easier to get into the ... , though, I’d like to admit that, in retrospect, five classes was definitely ... in a weird time zone, so I didn’t really have anyone to work together

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  irradiate my food for >2 minutes (only to get lukecold results) in our more ... to find a souvenir store in the faraway lands of Putz, but I will send ... in comparison to Tetazoo. I quickly abandoned this thought when I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  , they will get your letter in to us. And we are much more flexible with ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  ’t called in a week. I’ve been kind of hosed. Mom: Are you sick again? You ... juice in a week and a half. I haven’t really slept in a while. Mom: Sleep ... . Like, I had walking pneumonia at least twice in high school, have managed

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others soon. Katharine (and others) ask if the delay in the deadline will delay ... one in. Finally, I know that another deadline is about to pass for some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  hope was lost. I thought I would graduate and never get to lay eyes on ... through every single aisle and getting our bearings, we decided to start ... . Maybe it's existed since the beginning of time."][/annotation] Sadly, in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  papers I read every now and then.  I went back to the food tables to get ... huge part of what inspired me to get into computer science research. I ... back in 2016. Back then I didn’t have the background knowledge to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  So, in Massachusetts, there is a law called “An Act Relative to ... : during CPW and during REX. It's a great time to really get to know more ... 'm excited to get more involved with MIT's queer community. So far, I've felt

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  LED rocks and the capacitive touch sensing to detect a user's hand. In ... , getting around in the rain safely and protecting your wheelchair from short ... Floe, not as a product to get rid of ice dams, but to create channels

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  🦆🦆🦆🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🦖🦖🦖 SIMMONS!!! RETREAT!!!

  

  in the dark and tried to map out all the stars I couldn’t see from ... appeal of biting into apples, I thought to myself, after indulging in my ... we got back, we dispersed onto various couches and chairs to get some

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... you're taking one. Because everyone in MIT has to take them, it's more ... same room, to untimed, open-book, take in a 24-hour period, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  ; is the blogger get together known in all it's syntactically misleading ... in, and many of us are busy looking at our shoes as we walk. So to ... share with you one interesting fact about the evening. I managed to, in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  to help me get food in the cafe. So, I'll be fine. In any case, it ... like to do your laundry in New House? Sam: Sure. Me: Okay. Wear a suit ... Update: thanks to Sam, this now exists. www

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  Yesterday afternoon, I walked back to my suite in Burton-Conner after ... , “Wait, it gets even better!” and pointed to my bed. So I walked over and ... taped to my door.   OK? I opened the door, stepped into my room

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015