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  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  the applicants. A similar number of students were denied, while those students in the middle, about three quarters of the applicants, were deferred ... than 30% of our class during early action. We feel that the pressures to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  , and kept the rain off of me pretty well, although the ravages of time ... the very next day and bought me this great, top-of-the-line umbrella ... disparity between the amount of money that I was willing to spend on an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  , okay?"]Mid-October[/annotation] at MIT is the time of Midterms Week 1, the first of three weeks of exams (not including Finals) that you will encounter over the course of one semester at MIT. And lucky me; that week I

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old ... okay. Anyway, he is a former winner of the New England Division III ... Forest Hills. (For you subway people, we took the Red line to Downtown

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered. Pretty cool. And the winners of the ... reducing the radiation exposure of both patients and doctors the "Vac ... bunch of other cool "ideas"!   Photos from the judging session are

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  -bar package of Dial Gold My mother said, with the old Asian flair, "Don't buy ... yesterday, I opened the last bar The last bar - The last bar of Dial ... -bars Of soap can last me for five semesters But I say, that's the magic of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic ... than both of those already difficult semesters. It is the most difficult

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... throughout elementary, middle and even high school. I am now one of them. The ... junior year of college. The workload has increased substantially, but I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  but two of them) and then look at the answers down below. Really, with the advent of the Wolfram Integrator online, there's no reason for me to ... DID YOU KNOW? Human females are the second-largest female primate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  typing. If this is the first blog post of mine that you're reading, I ... ="January 15, 1919"]in the 1900s or something[/annotation] a giant tank of molasses exploded and flooded the streets of boston, and it straight up

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  . Commence the packing process! Frantic scrambling. Wading through piles of ... require.” For ease of transportation, Bed, Bath & Beyond will pack the ... shorts are your friends. And wait till you discover the wonders of free t

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  of this, my newest blog entry. I hear the Harvard Book Store is even ... make up organic feed and sparge 55 liters of water and turn on the ... five years, Brian explored the molecular modeling of gas hydrates, which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  belief. Now, as Spring Break comes to close, and the month of April has arrived, I feel ready for the next two months of school before the summer ... like the largest amount of homework in existence. My classes have split

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  work in admissions last July, and by mid-July I was part of the team to ... "]Felix.[/annotation] The next idea came from a student who drew an image of herself ... it -Emily"]class of 2024.[/annotation] And, just like the previous two

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  group of friends who understand me. I'm continuing on with the Design ... Symposium, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the MIT AeroAstro department ... , speaking from the audience during the Q/A session of the astronaut panel on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  beforehand. A lot of the ones around us were kind of stupid, like, "Why don ... to have a unit of measurement in the metric system named after me. Now ... define one. The maurer is a unit of awesomeness, equal to the awesomeness

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  the problems, quickly growing frustrated at the fact that none of it ... ) and a stack of paper that is the approximate size and weight of a baby dolphin. The stack of paper is your course notes. They were written by your

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  invisible gravity surrounding the way people treat you--a kind of feeling you ... who have helped me in countless ways, one of whom even took the time to ... as a person. It’s odd to feel suddenly placed in the world of adults

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  ! Images not for the faint-hearted. Spiraling out of control. - Now is ... doing any of those things once I got here. At the same time, it seemed ... would have to be made, given the axiom “Anna is physically incapable of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010