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  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  World couldn't pronounce the Nahuatl word "ahuacatl," so they simply chose ... in a swimming pool full of strawberry soda, and will ride in it with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  --miniature stalactites the color of salt--before a rippling turquoise pool in white ... live in a dystopia. Envisioning alternative worlds, alternative futures ... envision a world in which blackness is not feared and lives are valued. How

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  World Cup - pretend to care about in spirit of global love): French Open ... yea, the month-long World Cup – I don’t have much knowledge about

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  nobody came into work on Friday, because there's WORLD CUP SOCCER to be ... . Germany is playing against Ecuador in the World Cup at 4 PM, so Dr. Kau

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go ... that have won the World Cup, none of them have lost when playing in their ... 't done an entry on MIT in a while, and these two things--reading World Cup

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  fighting for my life in between gulps of milk. I gave up on finding cups and ... the corner learning how to play pool, which I soon learned that I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  pooled into the creases of our t-shirts and lingered in summery shadows of August heat. I give you a cup of increasing entropy and some mango too

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  -harvard pigeon pavlov hack? that one’s my favorite). the mit i now know is a world ... environment will vindicate a fledgling understanding of the world by othering ... a pool of similar enough peers that will at the very least be not that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive pool of applicants in Early, and unfortunately we could not take all of them. If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action

  • by Decisions
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  As you know, we had a very competitive Early Action applicant pool, and unfortunately we could not take all of them. If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew in Regular Action

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  With a record number of applications, this year was once again the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting less than 1 in 10 applicants from our amazing applicant pool means that we had to turn away many

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  

  With a 17% increase in applications, this year was once again the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting only 1 in 10 applicants from our amazing applicant pool means that we had to turn away many

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  showing at the World Cup, that was probably a mistake.) The other team ... up, disappeared into her dorm, and returned with a cup of tea and honey

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  -inch refracting telescope was the second largest telescope in the world ... taught Carl to play pool (a challenge, since the pool cue was probably taller than he was.) Carl told his grandma that I'm good at pool because

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  involved with. So, Fiona, if big parties aren't your cup of tea (as they ... , she's probably off traveling or doing something else supercool-but-without-access-to-the-outside-world ... choose only 75 juniors out of a pool of over 2000 applicants should help

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  dressed (in my world, putting on track pants and a t-shirt != getting ... the Z-Center pool in my bikini with Dave there). Now -- Defrying, eating ... bizarrely small world.) Some of the other applicants were really befuddled by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  of the shifting admissions landscape, our applicant pool was slightly ... countries, representing over 500 high schools all across the world. Though ... make the world a better place. We deferred 3,731 applicants. These

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place ... increase in the applicant pool, and the significant disruption and ... competitiveness of our pool, we have also informed 3,101 students that we will not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  die for Pool and Pye” (Ithiel de Sola Pool and Lucian Pye were two ... world can, and invariably does, conceal its cowardice in the face of human

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  could aid the transport of vaccines in remote areas. KoolPool, an ... -time feedback by shining a laser point at the bottom of the pool. This laser moves ... calibrations such as the length of the pool, its depth at both ends and the time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013