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  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  you click View Update.  This year, [annotation note='This is a small decrease from last year’s record high, likely driven by endogenous factors ... are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  Rob earlier this summer, and learned more from Kim when I saw him at IOI ... also its structure of different divisions, beginning from very ... reasons as) ours. Last week, Daphne from Bebras sent an email blast to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  ;   Oasis   Oasis is a different animal from Teriyaki House ... Hey guys, I'm back to blogging once a week after a ridiculously crazy ... (a friend Matt O. on the other hand would swear by their chicken and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  pulled an all-nighter finishing three psets." They say you can tell a lot about a culture from its language.  And while Inuits might not really have 200 words for snow, here at MIT we sure do have a lot of words relating

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  , so dinner at MIT looks a little different from dinner at home. Look Mom ... to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn ... like a snotty teenager, not having family dinner time was one of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  selling serenades- for a mere 10 to 20 dollars, you could chose from a list ... last day to drop classes and have them disappear from your transcript ... formally Alpha Chi Omega, by the dubs, shortened to A Chi O); and Greek Week

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  explain the intricacies of quantum scattering from a one-dimensional coulomb ... First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you ... tower. Nothing made that more apparent than standing in front of a

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... changes that will impede this global energy crisis from spiraling out of control. A small group of MIT undergraduates forming the group Biodiesel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  surreptitiously jump out of my lofted bed trying to land with a gymnast's dismount ... the day. Subway or Taxi? Realizing I'd filled out a survey online that had a $30 payout, I decided to be a high-roller and take a cab to the

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  overwhelm you with a vignette of my 1000 photos from the trip, I'll say that ... hallmarks of our entire trip. Walking around the city trying to find a ... , EVERYTHING IS A NUMBER. So we arrived at our first restaurant after not too

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  few hours: read a chapter from Orbital by Samantha Harvey which is ... blogging alienates you from the present, at the same time, i feel a lot more ... and practice). so far it's incredibly beautiful but harsh (it's about a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  question is usually "...What's Andorra?" It's a question I've gotten pretty ... compile an FAQ. January in Andorra FAQ What's Andorra? Andorra is a ... area and about a tenth of the size by population. So by U.S. standards

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  I talk about (Casting) is about a module from this seminar where we ... weeks back I spent my first birthday away from home and a special one it ... rattle off mean. Here's a great explanation by a class of '13 about how the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of ... apartment. I browse Reddit for a bit. The top post on the front page is from r ... of warm content. I’m in a bar not far from Times Square, watching the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  in a lab where the grad students and prof tend to work from about 10am ... Gretna, Florida. Over time the project evolved into a multi ... equipment, etc) and managing the camp website. On a more personal note, this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation ... Course 20 sophomore (now a junior) from Michigan who lived in a fraternity

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  tonight and give a free midnight concert all over campus except for Building ... campus police, both parallels of East Campus, and somebody in a chicken ... might also not be so smart, so we decided that a good place to start might

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  class meets everyday from 10 AM to 1 PM, and we go over a semester's worth ... a study abroad is kind of like matchmaking. For one month (or semesters - in a "real" study abroad), you're paired with a family, a city

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  and make half the floor feel left out from everything. promys, a high ... a build lead, despite having zero experience with mechanical ... administrative things and stuff. and there's a decent amount of that, like writing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  subtitles. I co-wrote a 200-page self-insert fanfiction about [annotation note="a ... "]Haikyuu!!.[/annotation] Hell, I'm listening to anime openings as I write this... Anime is such a ... straight up didn't have time for anime at MIT!!! I didn't watch a single

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020