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• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  ! How else can I help with your summer visit? For those of you who plan to ... Summer is a great time to visit colleges in Boston. There are more than 50 colleges and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab space in the gorgeous new building, but it's taking longer to get the lab up and running than everyone thought it would, so I decided to come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  sometimes it feels like i've just left everyone hanging. i don't know how to ... [Dear kuya, how are things there? What's up, is it cold there? It's hot ... , for older sister. kuya can also refer to any older male person. back in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Enigma Gold Star Winners! Don, tell them what they've won...

  

  To follow up on this entry... Thanks for playing Engima Wrapped In A Riddle! Don, tell them what they've won. Wow! I am impressed by how many of you met the challenge. Initially we had planned to only award one

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  Spiderman To: [email protected] Date: 01-25-07 1:00 PM Subject: pi, Pi, pie. TONIGHT. Like Pi? or "Pi"? How about Pie? TONIGHT, 7:30pm at the Hillel Center in w11. Join MIT Hillel for an evening packed to the brim with pi

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  Action Applications. Can I be frank with you? (As apposed to Bob? I'm so ... a stressful endeavor. I know, I know! Applying to college is beyond ... 's Anatomy. SPOILER ALERT! This entry assumes that you are up to date on all

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  Fidelio. Tonight we had the Burton-Conner Trivia Competition. Prior to the competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in ... -of-consciousness prose and doing chemical kinetics homework that it will have to wait until

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  , but they also can be things like (but not limited to) athletics ... activities -- make sure you convey that to us. When you describe your extra-curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in ... Masters that is offered only to MIT undergrads. You apply in your junior ... about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  we want to know how you spend it. Current music: Marvin Gaye, "What ... was this: people prefer to tell us about the things they think we ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  . Lentils My maternal grandmother taught me how to properly cook lentils when ... Boston a few days before finals last semester and taught me how to cook ... learning how to walk at her house, carrying a stuffed plushie monkey by the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief ... floor above mine, one often subjected to the graceful fingers of Random ... , there was always a sort of merry, thoughtless deliberateness to my efforts

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  ="i don't actually use adobe photoshop. i taught myself how to edit images ... time, skills that come in handy when it comes to hand-crafted memes. That being said, here is some memery I've committed since I came to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  side project, culminating in a presentation that caused me to stand in an ... running around New York trying to cram in as many experiences as I could ... let her name me) trusted me enough to design some of her wedding

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter ... , leaving 2012 0.3-kg resealed mollusk shells in that jar. You need to figure out which jar they raided before you take the mollusks to market. Your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  how Ryan describes TOFU: TOFU is a project to explore new ways of ... awesomeness that is all of you, I wanted to share this different awesome thing ... been invented over the last 20 years has been invented." (Reminder to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  little seminar where we're presumably taught how to design spaces while ... because I forgot to adjust for the President's Day holiday, oh well) 21W ... this semester. In Course 4 I'm much more used to having some 3-hour long

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  What are my chances of admission?

  As much as we love formulas, you're not going to find one here! We ... well. We want to see that students are involved in things because they ... who are willing to take risks, and who will bring something special and
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... screens, so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023