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• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  , we've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our ... admitted students choosing to enroll at MIT (also known in admissions

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  A few weeks ago we posted this video to announce our decision date, 3 ... figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox ... students their decision letters in tubes, a practice that dates back to when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  All words beyond this introduction belong to Piper L. '17 (who is no stranger to the blogs), and she has kindly allowed me to share them. I think they need to be heard by more people. Here is her original post. This

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music ... of the week's events; read/watch this if you want to know more about ... pancake I made to look like a turkey   lemon zest shortbreadá la

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to ... riddles whose solutions range from the sacred to the obscene but are always ... Monasteries. King Henry VIII gave the word to take over or destroy the nation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  kidding! I still called my mom whenever I was sick. I still talked to my ... to do laundry by myself or to know which medicine I should take for ... I had to wake up early enough to clean and prepare for their arrival

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  , and I still have some other work to finish before sleeping. For the ... handed out treats to anyone who stopped by their rooms/apartments between 9 ... . And my friends and I took this opportunity to galavant around our dorm

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions-consuming -- when multiple test strips fail to produce what I want, I cry, if only

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  Bridge Reception to be held on April 12, 2013 from 6:30pm-8:00pm in W20-301. Current MIT students will be joining us for the event and they are excited to be meeting you! In fact, they are so excited to meet you that we would like to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to ... Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to ... Grotto has to the Freedlyville Quarry. The quarry entrance was about a mile

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the ... of snow on MIT: What better way to celebrate than with a giant ... President Rafael Reif accepted the invitation to the snowball fight, though I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... 't have a dining plan, so it's up to the residents to feed ourselves ... through being the chef. It's the chef's job to 1. Come up with a menu, which

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  AgeLab I've seen troubles...

  

  wall makes me feel old. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to ... weather is changing in my knees. Also I'm cranky and like to talk about the ... was on TV: But if you aren't so lucky to be so old as I am, MIT's Age

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  will not link to here.) The folks at PBS's Nova have been producing a ... & Engineers. A now, the producers have shown the good sense to ... , and really important, research work. Would you like to hear the short

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research ... ) because there are research opportunities year-round, and we get to meet ... that is starting to change. Shhhh, listen! Put your ear to your favorite

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever ... : never delete your Public. NEVER DELETE YOUR PUBLIC. If you are trying to ... has taken me two months to figure out how to fix my broken blog. I am

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  th left much to be desired. I will elaborate on the details of “much” once I finish therapy. *Recently, someone I was talking to managed to ... , vernacular magic. Anyway, back to how much my week sucked. Three weeks, 13

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  I'm generating graphs, and have been since 8pm. They tend to start ... moving up and a bear market is one in which it's moving down! But back to ... so he brings back some amazing memories of the trip I got to take last

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  I blogged Ring Premiere and it would just seem unfair, wrong even, to ... . From now on, I'll have to stop promising to come back regularly - you'll just have to trust me that these sporadic blog entries will come back to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008