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  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  questions about East Campus or MIT in general! Some of you have probably ... activities MIT is offering this year. I obviously can’t speak much about events other dorms are running, but I can talk at length about East Campus

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  that I find left out for the taking on a table in lobby 10. Emperor of ... in. This is one of the best parts of summer in my mind. Whether you ... , especially in summer. Here are my picks: In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  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 / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  . As you can see, your GC has a very important role in the College ... the identity of your GC, be sure to introduce yourself post haste. In ... will snap like a maple tree in a hurricane. (I have no idea what that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100 ... did. I doubted each one of my essays. Re-wrote drafts. Edited the main ... prepositions at the ends of sentences and phrases. See how annoying I sound if I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  care of this for you. Random fun: In this post I mentioned that Shannon ... best job in the world. And then I [think about the admit rate], and I ... of you haven't received your packages yet. Please don't worry - they

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  the start of one of the most curious experiences I have probably ever had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and ... where we stayed in stilt houses characteristic of the Black Thai, an

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  .) “What was Course VI originally known as at MIT?” We’re now in the realm of ... specific, I know). CJ has written extensively about these old catalogs in ... "]creepy old building[/annotation] on campus, so I kind of expected Bard to guess

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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