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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  you on the wait list, we won't know if we'll be going to the waitlist until we hear back from everyone. With postmarks on May 2, I don't expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  found the secret on guarenteed [sic] Admissions to MIT This comes ... 's mad as hell because he didn't need to waste 2 months on ISEF research

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

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  Just got back from interviewing design firms. We're embarking on a redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Do most students complete a UROP?

  who is working on something that you think is awesome. More than 90% of ... reactor (the only one of its kind located on the campus of a major research
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  Tuesday all day Car 2, led by Becca G. '14, would go climbing on Monday ... actually saw Cathie Y. '16 there on a different MITOC adventure! Once all 18 ... you can sit and watch the stars.  Five of us went to follow him on a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  concerned about. Tragically, I see my peers falling into the same trap. On ... half-explain/half-give advice on academic preparation for your freshman ... here! Freshman fall, all classes are taken on PNR, or Pass/No Record

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  was thinking that I’d take you all on a tour of a few of them! Alpha Phi ... "]entrepreneur.[/annotation] Let’s go on in!   [carousel image1="111433" image2="111434" image ... we’ve finished up touring houses on the Boston side, it’s time to cross

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  every day. It feels strange when it’s not on my finger. I panic when I can ... long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few ... elsewhere, I have stayed as a civil engineer throughout my career, working on

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to ... give in though, I improvised, and conceived a personal scale on the spot

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  them, canker sores are circular ulcers that appear on the soft tissue of ... . This did not work that well, because the sore is on the inside of my ... my lips and ice easily melts inside my mouth.  1/10 Salt. I saw on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  dying Peel a strawberry Bake a grape Surgery on a grape Cleanse your email ... Attack on Alison - alison"]Attack on Titan[/annotation] Do some data analysis on your screen time reports and then if it’s as tragically high as

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  lots of cool things happening here on campus too! Like: Classes Many of my friends on campus are taking classes! While there are classes, they ... dollars in prizes, and an opportunity to work on software-related projects

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  went on until i snapped, slammed my laptop shut, and went to bed ... to put nothing on my gcal. i spent most of it with casey, but also with ... jynnie told me -- i'm the third senior on our hall to drop OS this semester

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with ... , throwaway books on the shelf that spans the far wall. My table trembles when trucks pass. It's 9 PM on Friday, and a heat wave broke this morning

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head ... Appearing shortly on the bench outside of the first floor nautical museum is a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  I don't usually see students on a day-to-day basis.) Anyway, I ... Katharina Ribbeck on biomaterials, whose research is on mucus. (I studied ... science videos on farts and poops, but sneezes and snot are the truly awe

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  . For more information on how our Early vs. Regular and deferral process works, you can read a previous post I've written on the subject ... do the work we do. And for all the fun we try to have on the blogs, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  stuck this piece of aluminum on the mill. A mill is essentially this fancy ... different diameters, we pocketed (made a square shaped hole) on the top of the ... below! Again, I failed and forgot to take photos... but essentially on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  " and/or the book on which it was based, Ben Mezrich's "Bringing Down the ... story centers on MIT alum Mohan Srivastava '79. Srivastava, a Course 12 grad who later wrote the textbook on applied geostatistics, now runs his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  I woke up at 8 this morning after passing out on my computer around 4 ... get in on the action even if you think that throwing a pot can be classified as violent assault. Students even get a discount on the classes, so

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010