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• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,040 students this year. Based on our ... waitlist until after the reply date of May 1. I wouldn't be surprised in this ... or major Y declines, are you likely to look for another student like

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  to before. So, we arrived at 7 pm and immediately got into line to ... is used for more special occassions like interviews or weddings (just

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  Lobby 7 for the Hunt Kickoff: Our team Captain, Keith '02, holds up the ... Anim(a)l, Nutter But(t)er, Or(e)o, Ge(n)eva.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  If any of you have attended one of my MIT info sessions, either on campus or on the road, you've heard me talk about MIT's 2+ miles of ... Lobby 7 and the Infinite into Super Mario Bros, but I think Matt will be

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  Part 2/2 documenting my Italy IAP trip :) Enjoy! Day 15: A magical day in Bologna, especially after chancing upon a fellow group of ... birthplace Bologna! Day 17: Learning is hard (I imagine)! I was pleasantly

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  Valentine's Day: did you know that those little candy hearts with sayings on ... days when the wind was blowing just right so that you'd get a sweet candy ... . Hope you had a happy Valentine's Day!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  drinking your cat might lead to a furry mouth or a scratched face." "'Don ... pain of touching a hot dish or learning the pleasures of bubble tea, our ... inside your mother for nine months, and then one day—BAM!" "You don’t have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  before or since. I mean, that semester I'd think that I was ... then say whether they did or did not get in. Trust me, there’s no ... good grades and test scores? Did you challenge yourself (in or out of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  you were expecting something like “Freshmen baking apple pies” or ... silver segway after you've just trudged through three or four exams ... nesting in the gleaming lofts of the Grading Hotel, in Room 99 or 100 or

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  regardless of your high school preparation. You can also make life easier or ... requirements, you can take 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism) or 8.022 (Electricity ... waters. I would rather labor over advanced biology or mechanics, it’s all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  I really should be napping or something right now, since in the last ... whether or not to apply to MIT, or whether or not to come to MIT after you ... 's Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) in April (or vice versa). I'm pretty sure they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  beginning to the two best days of my life. Even registration at something ... ! The next day I woke up bright and early for the first panel of the day ... puppet talking into the microphone The day continued with free pizza for

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  eventually."]instead of getting back to the people I need to get back to[/annotation]or ... —will begin, leaving me no time for self-reflection or recovery. So, I decided that I needed to write, or[annotation note="the french essayer means 'to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  pause. Often, I would simulate conversations with people I’d had that day ... seemed trite, or contrived, or simply wrong. I ended up saying nothing at ... ’ll always have the right answer, or the right words to say. In fact, it seems

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  't belong here, or like I was just in the cosmically wrong place. I didn ... guess this is the right place." Most days, though, I just felt like ... —I mean, in South Dakota, it snows in late September, or early October at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  a Youth Lobby Day at the Massachusetts State House. Three of us will ... ’t defend or denounce the play, but talk rather of the MIT experience of The ... The Vagina Monologues (or VagMo for short, as we called it) for the past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  delivered something like 8 or 9 Valentine's Day band-o-grams on the slushiest ... reason that they keep changing to Power Rangers: Zeo or Power Rangers: Light Speed Rescue or whatever is because they run out of clips from one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  don't leave your door open all day, or get used to finding your socks ... . Before I go on, "hall" means "floor" -- if I ever use one or the other, now ... usually let them roam the halls all day, with their doors ajar to allow for

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  So you're flying to college. Or you're flying anywhere alone, and you ... . "NO GELS OR LIQUIDS MAY BE BROUGHT ON ANY AIRCRAFT." It is impossible ... with the crazy hair in 7D. (At least you HAVE hair for them to set on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  I watched the sunrise this morning

  

  one of the reasons I love dawn is it reminds me that the sun will always rise [embed]https://youtu.be/jdiaBZM0ZAo[/embed] on my worst of days during my best of times no matter what the world moves on

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 7, 2024