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Blog / Athletics
ICIC A journey to deliciousness
Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream ... time riding in a group, and I'm still a pretty novice cycler. ... About ... cream. A bit afterwards, I began to realize we had gone pretty far and -
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Cheat Sheet This amazed me when I first saw it.
Mystery Hunt is a yearly tradition at MIT, but this isn't an entry ... for Mystery Hunt. We rarely used it, but the sheer amount of information on this PDF is awesome! If you even have a slight bit of geekiness -
Blog / About Decisions
Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008
that we do not have any more room in the class, and will not admit any additional students from the waitlist this year. The decision not to admit any ... appreciate your having been able to wait with us into the early summer. This -
Blog / Admissions
Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.
Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Welcome to Round ... contains many secrets 2) A large noteboard 3) Daniel's index finger, which -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions
always struck me as a tad odd that I should be "getting to know" a college ... eventually, how to decide which school to attend. At each stage, a school ... website doesn't answer these questions, it hopefully serves as a bridge to -
Blog / About Decisions
Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.
cousin, and my best friend all made it in, so it was my turn to follow suit ... where I felt I was meant to go, imagining how I’d install a WiFi enabled ... desire started to fade. It didn’t matter that not a single person on my -
Blog / Blog Projects
A Boring Friday what did you do last friday?
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Blog / Admissions
What’s Up With The Mail?!? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. But I'll tell you everything I know.
Services, just checked in via a comment and I thought it would be best to ... while people in Cambridge have not. I can't explain this, other than to ... to the holiday season, and (2) we had a major blizzard the day we -
Blog / Admissions
Open Thread: Deferred Early
As you know, we had a very competitive applicant pool in Early Action ... in Regular Action. Many MIT students were initially deferred; you can ... feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have -
Blog / Admissions
Open Thread: Deferred Early
As you know, we had a very competitive applicant pool in Early Action ... in Regular Action. Many MIT students were initially deferred; you can ... feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have -
Blog / Admissions
Don’t Panic! MyMIT will be inaccessible on Saturday, October 31 from 6:00am until 10:00am EDT for essential…
completed. Go ahead and sleep in, read a book, watch some cartoons, finish ... coming from me the day before instead of in the morning when you fired up the browser to finally submit your EA application. Rest assured there -
Blog / Admissions
The Match Our thoughts, and a request for current MIT students to weigh in.
the better part of the fall. I apologize for this, and thanks to all of ... updated, and I think it's a good overview. I'm hoping, however, that current MIT students (and alums, if any feel like weighing in!) will comment in -
Blog / Miscellaneous
4 8 15 16 23 42 If you already know what those numbers mean, this entry is for you.
So I'm a Lost fanatic. Long-time readers know that Alias and The OC are my two favorite shows, but Lost is positioning itself to take the ... peeps come up with. In the meantime, do you think the numbers are -
FAQ / First-year application
What are the deadlines for first-year applicants?
We have some important deadlines listed here, but please take a look ... the application, you are still able to add them by following the “Add new test scores” link in the application portal. The deadline for -
Blog / Academics & Research
I hurt myself again And again and again and again.
-covered sidewalk and falling flat on my butt in front of a group of construction ... inability to remain standing on my feet for more than a nanosecond without ... on one (1) set of steps in front of Senior Haus and nearly hitting -
Blog / Admissions
Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.
matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host ... had a dream where I visited Snively at his school. I walked in in the -
FAQ / Life and culture
What is MIT Code?
MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18 ... exactly what you're saying. Translation: You could be in Room 10-250, taking Linear Algebra, which is the unit distribution: 4 hours in class per -
Blog / Admissions
Open Thread: Deferred Early
deferred, you are one of the applicants who are going to be reconsidered without prejudice in Regular Action. A lot of MIT students, past and present, were initially deferred; you can read about a few of them here, here -
Blog / Admissions
Admissions Videos Over the Years The 90s were, uh, different
fun to see their evolution in one montage of clips: What video ... , have some things not changed...) Our first video that I know of was a silent film that was almost an hour long! An HOUR! What was it even like to