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  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you ... converse in the comments below civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go ... of a coffee machine somewhere. Quirky knick-knacks dot the lime ... seem too long for the rest of his body. He folds and unfolds his arms

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you ... converse in the comments below civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  block of time (more on retroaction in a bit). red are physical things ... adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the ... events to gcal as soon as i become aware of them, and i'll also make action

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  Hi!  We are the REX chairs of Mccormick (Adina G. ‘22, Camellia H ... first 6 letters of the alphabet, we made sure that REX this year at Mccormick represents the culture, sense of community, and overall fun you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful. As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and demoed my final project before the last day of classes, with my two final

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  Heyo everyone! It's Mimi again! I recently became a member of MIT's Educational Studies Program, a student group that runs a variety of educational ... teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: the app is live for freshman

  

  The MIT freshman application for the prospective Class of 2022 is now ... ;   You know what to do. Be yourself. Be good to others. Take care of ... 'll go is not who you'll be. Most of all, try to enjoy your senior year; it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I ... mentors, and tinker around with lots of new shiny gadgets, technologies, and ... , a part of MIT TechX. Every year, we organize HackMIT, a weekend

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  friends, or my mom's cooking, or the generally lethargic mood of my old ... first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax. Everywhere I turn my head, I see vibrant signs of life. People are painting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school ... of my soon-to-be home: Simmons. Let's talk a bit about this lovable ... ducks instead of koi fish) Oh, and every room comes with one of these

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Holidays from MIT! Images of the Season

  

  Happy holidays!!! Right now, some of you may be frantically ... memories below. From the Department of Chemical Engineering: (drawn on the windows of building 66 during the 2014-15 holiday seasons)            From

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  from the Boston side of the river as the humble brownstone I call my ... , occasionally venturing out into the streets of Boston to take some good snaps ... general has been very productive, especially for me. Spending most of my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs ... too. This one's a bit rough around the edges, mostly made up of video I ... hopefully IAP means I have more time to actually execute some of the blog post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  've taken full advantage of this year. Department Lectures     ... paragraphs of text are incomprehensible and there's a severe lack of the word ... in. A lot of the research that is being done is years from becoming

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  22 other amazing people over the course of the semester, and we pulled ... show! One of the most amazing parts of 2.009 is the final presentation. Over the course of a short semester, 8 teams of 24 students came up with

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / En Español

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the MIT community takes to make everyone feel welcomed. There are plenty of ... Science and Engineering) APR (Association of Puerto Rican Students at MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of ... weird accumulation-of-facts thing that I do constantly? Am I going to be ... had been fairly quiet through the first half of high school, and it had

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  . The class, taught by the director of the Media Lab's Mobile Experience ... disciplines, so a unique mixture of architecture, computer science, design and ... Google Glass, and each team of two would be working with their own pair of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is ... myself. Some of my favorites have been: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life   How schools kill creativity This video is a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013