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  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  MIT professor Woodie Flowers back in 1989, before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST, broadly speaking, is to inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to science, technology, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday, but it is no different. But before I once again immerse myself in the awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  't anything else to this post. Minecraft is a fun silly game in which you can do ... released in two day's time, at 9 PM on Thursday. But because neither of us ... video game which allows players to build constructions out of textured

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  this semester. In Course 4 I'm much more used to having some 3-hour long ... because I forgot to adjust for the President's Day holiday, oh well) 21W.735: Writing and Reading the Essay. It's my last class in the HASS

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to ... site of random tomfoolery. For example, MITHenge, which, according to Wikipedia, is when: On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  having to check maybe 10-15 packages on an average morning in the past, but on that one day last month, I had to check in nearly 50 packages of ... easy to multi-task. I am one of said desk workers at Baker, and early

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  roommates (Jeanne '13) discovered that she'd be hosting a prefrosh. In quick ... yesterday, Jeanne's phone rang and we went to meet our overnight guest (who was suitably impressed by our vanilla-scented plug-in air freshener

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  I, along with 25,000 other people, found myself in Golden Gate Park yesterday for the 20th annual AIDS Walk San Francisco. Thanks to your many generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  . The Crest bus has stations for you to brush your teeth. I say, "When in ... each year, and that it is the largest food festival in the country. On 101S, immediately (2 seconds) after we pass the "Welcome to Gilroy" sign

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  to experience things that we thought we only saw in movies. At 5 Wits ... photos. Lastly, to everyone who lives in MA, I definitely recommend going ... Once upon an IAP, there were 5 externs* who were lucky enough to be

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  !! When you're in college, you'll really come to appreciate the things they ... It's good to finally be back blogging (: As usual, there was the end ... busy studying (or panicking about studying) to worry about things like

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  cliches, so take extra effort to remind yourself it’s true. In practice, it ... make decisions for you, even if they turn out to be good in the end. Do ... People change, and that includes you. You don’t have to live up to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  turkeys into oil and blogging, I actually don't have time to participate in ... . Also, I wasn't too interested in the prize of a VIP card to any of Boston ... Burdick's, Cardullo's, and La Fromaggio. Meet in Lobby 7 to join tour. I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  in the East Campus courtyard. Artemis '18 and I decided to make it ... YAY November!!! First off, a huge WELCOME to the EA applicants! You ... until December. A girnomous WELCOME also to the RA applicants! Your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  begin to assemble a design portfolio for use in job ... homework means significantly more time to be creative and pursue passions (at ... Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company in

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  likelihood. I hope that you will have another great choice to fall in love with ... "yield"), we admitted 1533 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the

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

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  to provide the chance to participate in random, spontaneous, fun events ... 've been everywhere in Boston and everybody is sold out. I just want to have ... , bordering the south. In the middle, innocent bystanders began to notice what

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  I wanted to give everyone an update on our campaign to feed the ... dormitories, Maseeh Hall, from 7 to 9, to fundraise and spread awareness. Our goal was to raise at least $100 but more importantly to spread our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Regular Action Decisions: Sunday 3/14 How to receive your MIT admissions decision.

  

  in to decisions.mit.edu. To ensure that you will receive a decision ... MIT Admissions plans to make Regular Action decisions available ... decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and password that you use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Freshman Application: Live on Monday The MIT Freshman Application will go live tomorrow (Monday) on MyMIT.

  

  MIT. If you have not yet done so, you will need to register for a MyMIT account. The account provides a number of benefits, including: Access to the ... 's calendar of application-related dates: Early Action October 20: Last day to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2008