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• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  . If you look at the bottom of the page, where you once saw this: you ... like this: at the bottom of every page? One thing we would do is not ... then, So starting today, you'll see a "Share on Facebook" link at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  of the protocols so many times that I don't have to look at my notebook ... a scientist after reading A Brief History of Time in sixth grade. At ... 'm not sure how high the ceilings are, but I guess they must be at least

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  't take CI-designation into account at all. Then I realized that some of my ... ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk about how many pages of paperwork the MIT Athletics Department (DAPER) is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would take about a hundred pictures of the most random things you can imagine ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  the bathroom at the beginning of january i flew to sf for a job ... to mine at least, you tense up your abdomen and end up with a lot of ... warning: mentions of anxiety, panic attacks, heart attacks. please

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  because some of the new categories don't have enough stuff in them". Today, we have the privilege of dissecting the first term of my freshman year ... pass/no record already. Basically, first term freshman year at MIT, you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  -year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can ... .[/annotation] We have been hard at work this summer completely overhauling the ... . However, we have also added a set of optional questions across [annotation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  our perpetual battle with the mit weather machine spinning arts needs a shaman

  

  , yelling and wiggling our arms at the clouds. Because since nothing else has worked at this point, we might as well try. I don’t know where the lair of ... puddles and the piss of Zeus himself with only the fire of their props to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  anything, but I am incredibly skilled at making glass ponies. [caption id="attachment_113647" align="aligncenter" width="768"] The master at work.[/caption] For those of you who don't know, this is what a pony looks like: [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  knowledgeable letter on your behalf. A few sentences at the top of a letter ... We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly ... of recommendation from different academic areas of study, we understand
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  would make me feel bad if I messed up. At my level of block cutting ... ="aligncenter" width="507"] specifically from the tree in front of Walker Memorial ... ![/caption] text for accessibility: yellow aspen leaves the liminality of public

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  music video was released at the same time I had the beginning of my career ... least i'm not as sad as i used to be. This is the second mention of At ... at all, but it was definitely the song I was thinking of while I was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  makes sense, given my role.  Many of those requests, understandably, come ... from the college process.  While the specifics of each situation varies, the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  Campus that I spend a lot of time on. As a honorary frosh there, I ... ), but also personalized lists for each participant. Some of my items include: writing haikus paying respects at the location where I

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens with hexagonal cross-sections at various angles, the physical properties granted by the structure of a shoestring's weave, internal discussions on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  squealing* Yeahhh, MIT! Our boat went kind of slow at first, but after a ... alive in ten minutes? Mathura: probs not, hes in the line of happiness ... the first one of the fall semester. The five of us headed out to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  place at the end of finals week. Last night there was a dance party ... that might pave way for the rest of my life. I got my first shot at ... remembered I hadn't eaten all day. You know that sense of entitlement that we

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  're really in a state of shock at the loss of our leader. To make a long story short, Marilee Jones, our Dean of Admissions, misrepresented her ... job at MIT. What started as a mistake in her youth was compounded over

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  at South Station on Friday night South Station is a transportation hub ... concert. There was some tie-in with Verizon's release of a newer, condensed version of the Yellow Pages, but I didn't really follow. Jewel did

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007