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• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several fairly reasonable restrictions, and my roommate and I decided to take full ... temporary rooms: Not very inviting, is it? So we set right to work. The

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  grade teacher) used to encourage me to occasionally take a DOFMH -- day off for mental health -- from school. (To be honest, Mom likes to play hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  got tired of listening to us complain about a particular topic, he'd simply raise his left arm high over his head and point to his watch with ... this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Home! I'm back in the US after three weeks in Asia.

  

  the swing of things tomorrow. It will be a little strange to be back (and for so many people to be speaking English), but I'm excited to begin ... trip to Florida starts in less than a month! Forthcoming blog entries

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sam Videos Hurry, read this entry before Sam comes back from Maine and forces me to delete…

  

  Allow me to combine Bryan's impressive video posting initiative with Sam's undeniable nerdiness and my own insatiable appetite to document ... will, to be frank, make you laugh, make you cry, make you look up what

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  comfortable enough to actually fall asleep. A fifteen-minute nap in Hayden can give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it's just a nice place to sit and think. So here's my list of Things I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  See her picture(s) in a thousand places In which I understand what Bruce Campbell feels like

  

  , too? Guy: Really? Sam: Yeah, you just have to go back to the admissions ... upon being recognized that I forgot to get to your name. Sorry about that ... something and let me know. I can introduce you to Mitra.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  awaiting your Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) video introduction to MIT's dorms, you can watch the trailer here: 2005 i3 Trailer ... lottery will run June 1-17. As a historical note, I helped to secure the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  While we are still waiting to hear from everyone, and hence it is too early to know anything about the waitlist, the Next Big Mailing (NBM) is on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 6

  

  Today I got in early, giving me a chance to read my copy of the New ... long time, but I assure you, it is better not to rush such important matters. Right now, I'm listening to the Three Tenors, blogging (obviously

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... scholarship money to come. The idea is to win their affections by getting them ... take place up to several months before formal acceptance letters hit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, among others. I was planning to use today's entry to talk a little bit about school visits, so I won't let a ... to students and fellow admissions officers that this is a relatively

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s happening at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies?

  industry partners work together to develop technologies that advance soldier ... research to create new materials, devices, processes, and systems, and on applied research to transition promising results toward practical products
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  MIT has its own police department on campus to ensure the safety and well-being of the entire MIT community. "The MIT Police mission is to deliver total quality service to all the members of our community. We focus
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... uncommon for exams at MIT to be open book; we don't want to test rote ... to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to dining halls, or you might prefer to live in a cook-for-yourself (and often, your friends ...  approach to housing, we give our students options about where, how, and what to
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  blog posts. blogging right now feels to me like a sponge—it soaks up ... , regularly scheduled programming. one. as i alluded to in my last post, i was ... 's always conversation surrounding it, if you want to look for it. so i wasn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01 ... . Please don't worry, and there's no need to call the office for at least ... post it to my blog so that others will benefit from the answer. If your

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early ... ET). To check your decision on the 16th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password.   In order to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  just took them. because I knew I wanted to take them more than I cared ... that I wanted to take because I cared a lot about all of them.  although ... but I knew I wanted to go into the next semester differently. I didn

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023