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  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  brief, and it is the one MIT will continue to make, for as long as ... 's magnificently global, absolutely American community pursues its mission of service to the nation and the world.   I am also inspired by MIT's long

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  , you may not realize how weird it is for upperclassmen to want to date ... about how problematic things were, but I'll leave it at this: I'm finally ... Rule. in a pretty egregious way, at that⁠—it was a [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  certification exam on Saturday. It was, um, ok. I guess. I find out how I did in ... to know if you have to buy the TV, or do you rent it or... ? The TV is mine- I ordered it from BestBuy and had it shipped to my dorm just so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  and I still don't know if I know what it's about. This is a long ... Rooney and someone asked me what it was about. I said that I wasn't sure, but if I had to guess, it seemed to be about an affair but not the usual

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  . Its a long story. Ok, I need to get back to reading. I have a lot of ... with the life of the Admissions Counselor at MIT, here it is: We get ... applications - and since we have so many to read, we often find it more efficient

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  Sorry for not having posted recently. It's gotten to the point where ... time that feels like it's being wasted. As such, I decided to take most ... too much that's been going on not to blog about it. Seriously, you

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  this happened. Well, it was a little cold, for the first time in a few ... minutes immediately after getting to the beach before we realized that it ... forlornly upon the rocky shore for a very long while. Then we perked up and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  most valuable aspect of DesignPlus for me has been how it’s introduced me ... as many of my other maker friends. It’s also how I got to know my first ... -sustaining microcosm of MIT. In it, I’m constantly made aware of how design reaches

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  decision, and you should receive it shortly thereafter, depending on how ... It's been nearly two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and we ... you have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT. We know you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most ... if you do have a spelling error? It's certainly not fatal, but it's something to avoid if you can. It's unlikely to be the difference between

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... learned about interfaces. Me: What are interfaces? Dora: It’s like an ... ’T KNOW. WHY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THIS? (Dora laughs) It’s just computer

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  't know why it took me so long to go see the Red Sox play. I actually sort ... they're getting married, it's just a funny story.)(Which, uh, wasn ... they seem like something I really want to sign up for.) It's a weird

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  are more critical views. As long as you're nice about it. :) ... realize that he wrote it a month ago. I've been kind of lame about reading ... essays on subjects that I had been thinking about for a long time, and had

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  home in LA, we were talking about how we wanted to one-up it. The next ... . Why? It's a fun art project. It's tradition at this point, and getting bigger every year (this year is the third). Plus it makes people laugh, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  bubble. The weather here is... Weird. Sometimes it feels more like an MIT campus than the MIT campus does: brass rats at Taco Bell, HackMIT shirts in ... one degree of separation away. Other times it's distant and foreign

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  admissions officer. If they ask me what an admissions officer actually does, though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... conflated, it's hard to translate our professional skills to make them legible

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  there or what it took to get in. As I started to fill out applications, I ... . My mom looked at the caller ID and said, "Oh look it's an out of state area code. Who knows it could be MIT!" I responded with a snarky remark

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  lights (and point and laugh at blowup Christmas lawn ornaments). It's good ... does not have to be what you actually major in -- there are no quotas for ... annoying, because it's alphabetical by school rather than what is to me the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  . But what does it mean when your entire life is a big routine, a ... (dresser, bookshelf, more books), it's all familiar again. But another scene ... , we're just living the routine student's life. Yep, it's MIT, and yep, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  worth it just for the holograms and strobe photography exhibit. I also ... forgot where it was entirely. Next time, I'll get a picture and blog it. I ... Pod shuffle, and since she already owns an iPod, she decided to bestow it upon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005