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  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  . Speaking of Monday, I hope we've given you every opportunity to ask questions ... planned for later in the year! Hmmm, I think I'm going to need a bigger ... I've been working with video since CPW wrapped up, generally

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  . Normally, I like to write rags-to-riches posts in which students struggle ... . Alas, such is life at MIT -- all of us caught up in such dense torrents of nerditude that we can't help but collide with luminous points of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  the material can. In his May 19 xTalk “The Art of Insight ... expressions, Prof Mahajan suggests that we can, in fact, measure the entropy of ... ). Sanjoy Mahajan sees a general trend of pragmatism in the United States

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  completely by one of the YouTubers I watch regularly, Emily Diana Ruth. She ... Illustrator and Premiere. So I decided to take advantage of the remaining time ... on the month of July before I head home 3) vanity and 4) boredom

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a rose is a rose is a rose ...is a rose

  

  - GOOD LUCK TO ALL EA APPLICANTS!!! i can’t tell you not to worry, to ... So I haven’t blogged for a while - again... I’m not going to lie - it’s actually because I’ve been doing architecture stuff and that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  experience. (As some others of you may also be dimly aware, I was in the ... I realized the other day that, despite the fact that most of you are ... there are very few pictures of me in a cheerleading uniform on good hair

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  -year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2026 is now live. You can ... remember that, as I wrote last year, we do not give any kind of preferential ... /ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well.   I asked members of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  The last two years at MIT has been a large exercise in learning how I ... recitation and office hours. This is a compiled list of the resources that I ... while others swear by them. I've been at both sides of the spectrum and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  with the MIT Outing Club! In my free time I like to play lots of board ... , which runs throughout the month of January"]IAP.[/annotation] I also got hit with a case of writer's block, so I went through at least five

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... her first year of college sleeping in the kitchen of New House. The ... richness of the student body. In other words, finding the people who are

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Alia Burton ‘05 Name: Alia Burton; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

  

  , Class of 2005, Course 1 (Civil Engineering) Favorite things about MIT: interesting and brilliant people; students of every major can take nearly any class and do research in any department; "nerdiness" and quirkiness aren

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Lunch

  

  Assistant Director of Admissions Matt McGann. I hope you can join us! MIT ISEF ... I've gotten a few search engine hits for "MIT ISEF Luncheon," so for those of you looking for that information, here it is: The MIT Office of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  inventions in the world. Radar, modern lithium-ion batteries, canned soup, and the spreadsheet are just some of them. Today I found out about a new ... available until next year, but I hope to be first in line to get some.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  said in one of my comments in the last thread, I wish people would stop ... I think you guys set a record for ben.mitblogs.com - 353 comments in ... admitted. I've responded to each email with a slightly different version of

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on ... admissions statistics once they're compiled. This year I can tell you that ... at your application again and consider it in the context of the Regular

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  in your MyMIT tracker. AHHHH I CAN’T CHECK THE STATUS OF MY ... are patiently waiting, please check out the FAQs below in case I can get ... all of you have been able to set up your interview, etc. If you can

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  many food options as some of the other parts of Cambridge, and so the ... Gooseberry's to the newest of the crowd, the fully vegetarian and MIT ... preparing it. Tonight I was walking back from the T along the street where

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I send in my transcript?

  : If you send us a copy of your transcript while we are waiting for your
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  love Simmons. I like being able to come "home" at the end of the day and ... as close to "apartment-style" living as you can get in the dorms. This ... work in peace. In short, I like it here. So without further ado, here

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  While reading applications, I've thought of a number of things of ... sending in some of your work. Be sure your standardized test scores have ... advance of the January 1 deadline, if you can. It will save you and us some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005