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  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  ? A cover letter from Marilee, formally transitioning you to the ARC ... ! A couple ways to check if your username is already taken: 1) put the ... patient). Formally known as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  Square, Coolidge Corner, Beacon Hill, the North End, just to name a few ... music: I love nearly all kinds of music, but if asked to name a few, I ... right answer to a question on an application. There is only the right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  hands. I wrote a note to my mailman, telling him to leave anything from ... understandably, very anxious. I've seen this twice a year for the past four years ... things a little... It was one year ago. Decision letters were in the mail

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others ... This morning, a productive time reading 8 (mostly excellent) applications. This afternoon, a less productive time dealing with bureaucracy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  about my class projects here. A major contributor to my enjoyment was ... more of a reflection than a guide because there's no definitive guide to ... classes also vying for my attention. I'd typically try to pick a set of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  to the onion mixture. And then I served it with a little sour cream on ... . BUT YOU JUST WANT ADVICE ON HOW TO WRITE A WINNING EARLY ACTION ... necessary to use protection... ...so I put on a pair of lab goggles

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  tradition over time. If a hall wants to be known for something, it can be ... The blogfathers in the admissions office requested a while back that we bloggers do some work on presenting our living groups to you. For

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  - they're affixed to a placard next to the door). Also, we have a lot of ... to 2.12, Introduction to Robotics. 2.007 is indeed a robot competition ... even put them on the MIT Class of 2012 website SO if you wanted to put a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... ] students work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and ... creativity, product design, working within a budget, and gain unifying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  to a place radically different from home. In these first few months, I ... , once in mirror The glassy surface of the river reflects a portal to ... now, I have gone to sleep with a gentle tap on my window As the rain

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  professions, in a way Santa and Poseidon both have a lot to do with to snow. I ... -distance. Luckily Ami is a physicist and her hat is science-magical and they got to be ... Here’s what I woke up to on Friday morning: massive snowflakes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  As many of you know, there has been a lot of uncertainty in the ... 's letter to the community on November 9, the day after the election, he wrote ... , including (but not limited to) those who are registered for Deferred Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of ... view MIT as a magical place and compare it to Hogwarts. They view the ... lessons from you, I have cried for you. I had a really horrible physics

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  problem as its posed to us: A wheel of diameter R, consisting of a thin ... Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  for 18 cents each! Needless to say, I was thrilled. (I bought 12.) Unfortunately, one was a casualty of some rainy weather today. Anyway, back to ... ) and I went to Harvard Square for some errands and dinner. Weywey dug

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  : Gravity Falls is a story about two twins, Dipper and Mabel, who move to ... 've been to a lot of the places shown in the video, so it just makes me ... 's been really nice to crowd around a laptop and watch LCS with friends

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  paradise to me, a Palo Altan indoctrinated into the cult of the Silicon ... rats scurrying from dumpster to dumpster. There’s a different sort of ... brownstones to tea and scented candlelight. Yet some are always late. They

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  , a list of women graduates, a dedication to MIT "college girls", and a ... choose to participate in a variety of musical clubs, French or German plays ... of the first human oncogene—a gene that causes normal cells to form

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  grammar. So building 1 is not next to building 2. That's a rookie mistake ... DID YOU KNOW? Michael Jackson originally worked on the soundtrack to ... got lost on my way to 6.003: Signals and Systems recitation on my first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  freshmen can make a more educated choice about where they want to live. Of ... who aren't slackers, you can visit this page to get a good idea of what ... . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005