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  The reading season begins

  

  in the mail; you'll wait for your decision in the good old US Mail. It ... I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me ... they're called that). For the next month, the admissions staff will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  lounge for the occasion, and we spent the whole day cooking in the kitchen preparing food for our favorite professors and instructors ... , we had a greeter at the door to welcome them to our hall. Most of us

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully ... challenged us to think about the "optimal, ideal inhabitant of the world" and ... the music industry. He encouraged us to disrupt it some more - but

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  second for that to make sense. But we have an agreement. I don't tell them ... lesson and many more that they teach us every year, allow us too to not

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  coach, Dave Hunter, attempts to motivate us for the next period using a ... , is all around us. Its fruits are bore on every billboard, every cereal ... more aware. Professor Levine has crafted a curriculum to make us more

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  activities for the past two weeks have been working during the day, working at ... steady myself. We traded off for the better vantage point a couple of times ... with the enemy. This guy turned out to be an MIT alum. He also told us

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  , this is clearly a very US-centric program, since it delineates the US states but for example, none of the regional divisions of China ... can in the next few months. Any suggestions for weekend travel while I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  of the only hub of activity for miles, I waited. I was crouched, poised ... fellow soldiers. The fighting lasted for 15 minutes and I grew soaked with ... 110%. Some day soon, many of us will have to offer our support to

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pervnert This entry is not suitable for children under 7 or finite-volume, compressible vapors.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The MIT PE Lottery for the fourth quarter starts today ... ., paused the video and told us, "Now you will never forget the ideal gas law, no matter how hard you try." Hey, this was intended for high school

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  housemaster, dressed up and handed out papers for us to fill out to determine ... wearing a firefighter costume I bought off Amazon for a separate occasion ... ever, after having dyed hair for more than six years now. I've always

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  , seeming strange or feeling too uncomfortable? For example, like this. Or ... Radio way back when? For you prefrosh who've signed up for Terrascope or for those of you that will eventually sign up, it's a class you can take

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  powers the US News & World Report and other rankings systems). Now, I ... process. When we say that the admit rate for students with a 750-800 was 15 ... :   Admissions Statistics for the Class of 2017 General Freshman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  -thing Learning-place) telling us about all the new things that MTL had planned for ... businesses are talking to us about why we should work for them. They all seem ... Interesting Things) talking about all the cool ideas they have worked on for the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  't about to settle for an official camping site. We parked outside the first ... reminded us to string up our food away from our tents, in case it drew interested bears. She also (very matter-of-factly) informed us that this was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  luminescent solar concentrators which collects sunlight for solar cells. These ... fewer solar cells for the same energy output. They can be mounted on ... Offshore Renewable Energy Systems (ORES) for which excess power from a wind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  tell us your passions any why you a great fit and match for MIT. It ... us know if that poses a hardship for you in your country. Leon wrote ... , the December SATs will always reach us in plenty of time for regular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  lowered, he later went back on it and told us that we'd have to pay for ... commit. Five of us signed on, but two others couldn't promise anything ... stay flexible and look for places that would be reasonable for between

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  car A LORGE moving truck Enough WiFi for all 13 of us Turns out ... us to move in right away, b) was big enough for everyone, and c) gave ... that’s okay. It’s okay for us to take time to just be sad; we don’t have

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  the group shots. Here's one of us expressing our affection for it ... UPDATE: After a tip from Pro-snowman league warning us of a possible ... maliciously assaults snowmen, we will never back down and we will fight for the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  . Saturday 9:00 a.m. For breakfast I eat cereal and drink jasmine tea. Then I ... feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping ... cold plunges a habit for the serotonin boost that followed. When we get

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025