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• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  IT SOB OK I THINK IT WORKS NOW LMK IF IT BREAKS Let us know what you ... answers and their corresponding dorms to create the quiz for the blogs ... questions until the day before the dorm decision form was released for

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  you shoot for the moon, you miss, but that doesn't discount the bravery it took to try. The comments on this post are an open forum for those of you who want to talk with us, shake it off, and get back up again

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  really embody the word maximum, made it difficult for us to go through with ... Lives, and eager to figure things out. For those that haven’t read it yet ... , before making any drastic changes. So, for now, we’re taking the path of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  could chemically analyze blood for components/diseases), and us ... fruitful one for me. To recap: Late May -> Early July: Back in Taiwan ... , temperature) and translating for doctors (yay Spanish!) These blog entries may

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Weather Machine We wish you were still here!

  

  , its timing was off by a week, but fortunately (for me, not for you ... weather machine. I might have still been asleep for that)(once I fell asleep during a US history paper and ended up writing a paragraph about Toby

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  what you actually came here to get: the results of the EA round. For a ... for the better part of a year, and most of the committee members were avid readers of her blog long before she applied for this position. Her

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Wir fahren nach Berlin! Bullet holes in the cemetery walls, plus Liv Tyler.

  

  went to Berlin for the World Cup finals! Things were appreciably crazy ... missed during our 36-hour stay. I was personally rooting for France, but I ... the US tied with Italy 1-1 in the first round of the tournament, I think

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will host a reception at ISEF in Indianapolis.

  

  The MIT Office of Admissions will host a reception for participants ... serving some appetizers before you head off for supper. The Artsgarden is ... join us! MIT ISEF ReceptionThursday, May 11, 20064-5:30pm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  . Went back to my office for the first time in 2 days; checked email. Akash ... Google Maps for an hour or so. Met up with Lorelle and headed to the BSU ... for dinner. From there I headed to the Mr/Miss MIT pageant in time to

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  fantastic applications, the highlight of the day (for me) was my making mango lassis for the staff, to go along with the Indian food we had from India ... Yahoo Yellow Pages). Today, Marilee gave us a day off to rest and catch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  2,822 applications

  

  the weekend reading applications! No Thanksgiving break for us admissions officers... Anyone else have interesting plans for Thanksgiving? ... nearer. Look for me in the crowds Thursday morning at the Macy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from ... go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house; I happily settle for some oolong tea. As I think more about the cocoa

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  , freshman year just isn't masochistic enough for us. We struggle, suffer, and ... first year at MIT is for us to get over ourselves. What's that, you say ... basis for my sorority-bashing. Seriously though, I was basing my opinion

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a ... for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... this tutorial for making stress balls using slime and fishnets. The

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  you either have a date for your visa interview soon or have already had ... different requirements for tests and vaccinations for different countries so check those out for your own country and get vaccinated and tested

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  Lydia K. so generously created for us bloggers who can't think of anything ... video games for a living. Direct correlation! Teach us something you ... speed walk from East Campus to the Z-Center for practice. Tell us about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  arranged by Professor Lindgren of the Music Faculty for us to all attend a Yo ... , Professor Lindgren arranged a "back-stage visit" for us to see Yo-Yo Ma, and ... paradoxically ask us to accept, if only provisionally and for a time, this half

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas and to Myrtle Beach for Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. My parents drove down ... Thursday morning (Penn State gets a much longer Thanksgiving break than us

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• 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 ... there is enough information for us to match the document with your file ... the past few days. Do not call or email looking for missing documents

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  and share items of interest with your friends and colleagues. For more of our latest thinking, please visit us at http ... ========================================== It Matters Which Way You Slice It: Risk Management for the 2005

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006