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• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  up here. Moving here from Chicago in 8th grade felt like settling into ... the rooted alumni that make up the cultural core of the town, football ... grew up in a home that loved football—Penn State Football. I had a PSU

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  here. The name plate on our door has four slots, taken up by AWESOME PEOPLE ARE HERE which is, in fact, just as accurate as having our names up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  ) after an 8:00PM track race that went well and I was so hyped up on ... along with countless faculty, staff, students, and alumni. People came up

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  run-up to the S&L crisis. Here's what Lewis had to say about the ... up on the screen. Most people can't do much about the material

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  -late April with an update on what you've been up to since our last contact ... . Please always be very nice in all of your interactions with us! Keep us up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  shop. But few simple things can make you feel so at home as walking up to ... things you end up being. There is nothing sufficiently shameful about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  may take us up to two more weeks for your materials to show up on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  our exams when the test started, so (all stressed out) I ran up to a ... ." I shrieked and slammed my computer shut. I sheepishly opened it up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  catch you guys up on what I've been doing. I will start it with a post ... ).  Eventually, we, the UROPs, said goodbye to our schools, and gathered up for a

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  that image came up in my google search and I decided to use it). The ... was fully brushed up on my C-fu (C, the programming language) and wanted

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  learn how to make our own beer and proceeded to set up our brewing station ... personally learned how to purl and am finishing up a scarf; I’m hoping that my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  documents from the applicant. The MyMIT Tracking is up-to-date (while the ... materials that have not yet shown up on MyMIT Tracking. Please note that you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  being hyperbole. So let me clear up a few misconceptions. And a totally ... who wrestle a bit with p-sets and seek help than people who soak up

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  upped my game and suspended my ring on a branch, right next to a spider ... about to pack up and leave when we saw—get ready for this—Bubble Man. I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  gloomy day.. the rain wouldn't let up but we still managed to have a lot of ... schedules were thoroughly messed up at this point). We had a great time eating

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  Chamber Music—which combined with last year’s classes finished up my ... last entry pretty much sums up what I want to tell you about that class

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  MIT Tracking is up-to-date (while the Admissions Office is closed, the Records ... this later). Do not worry about materials that have not yet shown up on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  basket on back. I liked it, but wanted to touch it up. I began by stripping ... most of a bike. I ended up with a maroon frame, sweet plain handlebars

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM ... roasted with splurges of oil, salt and pepper; bad movies; walk-up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  school students." M.I.T.'s bloggers, who are paid $10 an hour for up to ... open up an issue or topic that starts something negative." But Mr. Lord

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009