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• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear prefrosh, a letter to you

  

  Over these past couple of weeks, I've had the absolute privilege of ... of dedicated letter of sorts to the prefrosh since I've had a lot of ... to one of the top universities in the world. My freshman year is ending

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys ... real magic of the transfer process is that no two transfer students follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  conform to the average pari-sneeze*** head tilt angle of 35.74 degrees, I ... is around the time of winter break. I chose to spend my break at home ... defines as the “sudden involuntary expulsion of air from the nose and mouth

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school ... , adding that the big company would pay the expensive costs of horse care. "I ... and on the required tests. She earned an ACT composite score of 32

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now ... Regular Action, 33,240 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2025. This ... needed to get the job done right.   It was an incredible amount of work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  ): The Evolution of Our Scientific Answers to Seven Fundamental Questions ... just the ones I'm aware of.) We want Splash programs to learn from each ... , see how they function, and give them suggestions. At the end of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the ... .   Pistol First of all, I JOINED THE PISTOL TEAM! (Photo Credit ... ’m improving so much!! I can get almost every shot in the black area of a target

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  amounts of snow, snow means fun! For all of the upper-classmen who see snow ... the residents of Conner 2 (second floor of the Conner side of Burton ... one of its kitchens so that's where we got the snow for the majority of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  ’s 48 degrees and I can’t feel my toes.) I’m not the only one – many of my ... Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... teenager, I unconsciously start tuning out the ends of all of their sentences

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  my internship at the National Institutes of Health the summer after ... what I spent my high school summers mostly doing. So at the end of my ... , which I'm sure you've realized if you've read the rest of my blog). You

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  Alton suggests in his "In the Bulb of the Night" episode, the leftover oil ... DID YOU KNOW? The new wave-y pop song "I Should Be Allowed To Think" by They Might Be Giants begins with the lyrics, "I saw the best minds

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  . Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... decision, including the 52 to whom we have offered admission. At that point ... students for the Class of 2019, not even Leeroy Jenkins. We have seen all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the amusement of floormate Swetha '13 and with the full support of my roommate ... Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  : 15 CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity are in campus-police custody ... punishment of lifetime banishment from the MIT Media lab. This is not the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  So, today is the day! CPW has finally arrived! As many of you make ... state of social awkwardness as here were some of the people I’d be ... , and I stopped for a second as the chill of Boston froze me. I had just

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  handle. Now, I realize that these are the days when we become the kind of person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I ... idea any of these existed last year.   Within the past year, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and ... Traveler" and "Flirting 101." Students who "pass" the requisite number of ... fair held at MIT, but it's one of the more interesting ones. (In the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2027 are now ... Regular Action, 26,914 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2027. This ... to the MIT Class of 2024, which was the last class selected before we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the ... -dimensional science geek (most of the time). I read poetry voluntarily, and I quote it ... ungodly long paper about the symbolism of the whale or some such thing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  classes begin next week. But over the last week, the Class of 2026 arrived ... . For the rest of you, REX is a great opportunity to find out about the ... what the MIT culture is like, at least as reflected by the kinds of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022