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  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  this new system.    March 11th, 2020 Current students We know there is a ... prospective visitors experience MIT from a distance.  For the subset of ... gather on campus for CPW. We recognize that CPW is incredibly important for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  ready to live in paradise for a while. As important CPW is for prefrosh ... , an excellent fit for MIT. There was also a hoop artist And a silk ... for a long time. Of course the hack ran the nerd gamut across the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago. It was a momentous occasion in my life, a turning point from ... ended up building a 3-D twister game, some huge speakers, a hammock for

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  choreographing 4-5 hours a day for the entire month in preparation for Mocha Show ... , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night ... ; work last IAP, I tried to UROP but applied for a random one that I didn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  forecast for the long weekend: A sun-moon wearing shades? Now that is ... , we have a few upperclassmen spots that are open for the fall, and if you feel you can make a compelling case for your inclusion among them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest ... details on what it's like living next to Sam Maurer for a summer, as told by ... the student's pay for community service-type jobs. This is important for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... , Kahneman describes his time working as a psychologist for the Israeli Army ... analogy that I coined a term for our experience: the illusion of validity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  , but Dr. Lee pointed out a very important distinction between the MIT ... freshmen are taught to memorize phylum names and label parts of a plant for ... .D. Production." It's a comedy about three actors studying for roles as undercover

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  research. Here's a few of the nanotech labs I'm aware of: The Laboratory for ... Have you seen this adorable video? Patrick Bennett, a Berkeley grad student, submitted this video for the Nanonation Video Contest

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  for worse. Tonight I am highlighting the differences between me as a 17 ... my AP's were in science! That's a true story.) I was ranked 11th in my ... wrote about cheerleading for my diversity essays ("As a college

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

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

  

  IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you ... selling serenades- for a mere 10 to 20 dollars, you could chose from a list ... for Logarhythms), who are our all-male a cappella group and kind of the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  until I got to MIT my freshman year. I got a pair for $25 with kneepads ... for a total of 15 miles in Chicago, then 25 miles in Boston, then 50 ... moment this came together for me was at a skate camp this past August, when

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  usually announcing an available UROP or a company seeking applicants for ... . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job ... experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  from high school Health) - DENIAL: "No this CANNOT be happening to a Mac. I have a Macbook Pro for goodness' sakes!!" ANGER: "What do you mean you can't fix it? Do you really work for the Apple Store?" BARGAINING

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the MIT Interview keep b r e a t h i n g

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... ). A description of the current interview process is posted here.  0 ... ???? 5:41 Quick tips for the interview

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  On Thursday, December 15th, we released decisions for Early Action (EA) applicants. There was a definitive resolution for those students ... advantage nor disadvantage for having been deferred in EA. I can't give you a

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  , and so we proceeded at a crawling pace for a number of miles. Eventually ... aforementioned mud flats[/caption] I did a little bit of reading for the first ... familiar face in an unfamiliar place on a long journey; we chatted for a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.

  

  It has been a tragic week here. On Monday, the Boston Marathon was ... , and another is reportedly on the run in Watertown, a city that borders ... homepage. There are some nice stories coming out of this. For example, MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  , and the office is revving back up. And with that, it's time for a few ... straightforward enough, but it takes a lot of time! It is completely normal for ... . For a very long time, the application proportion was stable: about 1/3rd

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  [by Harrison Bralower '11] It started with a sound board. When I was ... with Dramashop again, this time as a sound assistant/operator for the ... workshops for anyone looking to do a little work on the side or just learn

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008