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• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  'm almost not sure if I should mention this, but my friend Ankur '03 is one of ... we have received parts of your application. As you can only imagine, we ... to process all of your documents so that we can begin to read your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  , so I can start testing my projections, which will be on the walls in ... yearlong effort, culminating in one joyful night of celebrating art and design at MIT. In fact–today’s the day of Gala 2025: April 27th! Setup

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  that we'll receive a packet of information at check-in. Can I still get ... bed. Some students have futons in their rooms you can sleep in. I am in ... lots of people at MIT interested in helping you make your college

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  in the MCU (and is from the Boston suburb of Sudbury), seemed to ... tradition of hacks, you can read more about the history here, and read blog posts about hacks here. No word yet on any hacks in honor of canonical

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there ... with an array of engineering challenges. Working in groups of four, each ... the entire cast was also in attendance. (Oh, and one of the high school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Day Cats cats cats cats cats cats cats....

  

  him in the basement of the medical building, and Will R. '16 and I got ... can't exercise because of this allergy test. Ugh. Anyway, at 8pm, I am ... finally woke up. I sprayed dry shampoo in my hair, and headed to MIT Medical

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  ="attachment_50445" align="aligncenter" width="600"] i can make diagrams in paint ... Sightseeing. I was standing in front of my laptop staring at the puzzle while ... words heraldry in the back of the room, I was instantly interested, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  upperclassmen. So I asked some of my closest friends who were graduating if they ... your plate than you think you can handle during P/NR - it's how I exposed myself to a lot of things at MIT I wouldn't have found otherwise! However

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I got into an early habit of ignoring it. After I turned 7 on 07/07, it ... bit of those 24 hours, but that just makes the time that I was awake

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making ... (DMSE), I have the perfect tools to conduct a quantitative analysis of MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  . "that's nice!" she said, in the middle of typing up my prescription. "i ... chord in my memory. jeff and i met four years ago in the summer after our sophomore year of high school. we were here for a biology camp in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  of the New Yorker. I landed in LAX around 11:30AM PT and picked up my ... , where I had a Central Meeting at the Qualcomm corporate offices in one of ... on a joke. I know I'm really in the zone when I can simultaneously talk

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  ! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great experiences I've enjoyed this semester. I'll tell you about one of them here

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  nine of us in there. I felt so bad for the chefs! We enjoyed ourselves to ... underneath my bed or in the closet, I put on my best MIT gear and made the ten ... something that I could show them. Something that’s a perfect representation of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  men are out of sight, and I am laughing in the street.   I make ... 2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a ... arms in the air, and yells: "I'm SATAN!" The man at the register looks

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  Hunt is a time-honored tradition, which you can learn more about in CJ ... in order to do it. Puzzles have some sort of answer, which is usually a ... of a hidden coin. I'm [annotation note="I am on the same team as Shuli

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  of bouncy balls. (Pictures, anyone? Seeing as I wasn't on the receiving end of the drop, I don't have any myself...) Notice "sleep" is not on ... says sleep isn't on your list of things you did over CPW either. Am I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  something engraved at danger!awesome is insanely simple. I walked in and told ... smoke cleared (and there was a lot of smoke), I was left with this ... Earlier this week I purchased a present for a friend. This friend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  Kesem 2010 is over and I'm back in the Real World - which sadly doesn ... that I would soon have a six-year-old in my arms, crying about how hard ... believed you if you had told me that in one week, a single group of college

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  i just finished 6.811, principles and practices of assistive ... area clients. i can't even begin to summarize everything i learned this semester, but you can start to poke around in the 6.811 course website

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014