Kris Guay
Mar 23 2012
Free Lunch
Posted in: Miscellaneous, Life & Culture
One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a bunch of email lists. I now know what is going on around campus with web publishing, communications, social media, with the arts organizations, with the LGBTQ community, and with “food at MIT” just to name a few.
This last one is one of my favorites and I get a number of emails in my inbox from The MIT Food and Agriculture Collaborative (MITFAC).
What’s that, you ask?
MITFAC brings together students – and other MIT community members – to coordinate and support work in the areas of food and agriculture. Members are actively engaged in advocating for and supporting the development of a more sustainable food system on our own campus.
They also work to enhance MIT’s role in contributing to the broader discourse on agricultural sustainability across the global system.
Just the other day through one of my MITFAC emails, I was warmly invited to a free sustainable luncheon in the Flowers Dining Room at Maseeh... read the post »
Mar 21 2012
Admitted Student Gatherings
Posted in: Information
Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT, and with my second season of reading applications behind me, its time to start getting to know all of the wonderful people I have been able to read about over the past several months!
Kris was kind enough to let me guest post on her blog to let you know about some exciting opportunities for admitted students. Although a lot of my time is spent preparing for Campus Preview Weekend (sign up now!), I’ve been working with our fantastic Alumni to put together admitted student gatherings to welcome you. Beginning Saturday, MIT alumni from around the world will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of 2016. If there's one in your area, you should check it out -- it's a great opportunity to meet some potential future classmates, as well as MIT students and alumni. You’re parents are also welcome and encouraged to attend.
Here are a few highlighted events this coming week; see your MyMIT... read the post »
Feb 29 2012
Weekend in Kendall Square
Posted in: Visit, Life & Culture
This weekend, as I was reading the Sunday Globe magazine like I usually do on a Sunday morning with the dog, my partner, and the wood stove cranking (even when it's too warm out), I flipped to a big section titled 24 hours in Kendall Square. "Don't you still have that gift certificate for two nights at the Marriott in Cambridge?" asked my partner now peering over my shoulder to see what I was reading. "And weren't we going to pick a weekend in March to hang out in the city?" she asked again.
"Well, I was thinking more like April or May when it's nice out again," I answered while reaching for my coffee cup near my slippered foot on the coffee table. And then I remembered the bulletin boards in the Infinite Corridor.
I can't seem to make it to my office in the morning without stopping a half a dozen times along the way to see what's going on around campus. The other day I read a flyer about a media lab talk with the new director and I had to email Chris, who was in the... read the post »
Feb 7 2012
Our new video
Posted in: Information, Life & Culture
By now many of you have seen our new promo video on the website. And if you haven’t yet, you can take a look right here.
MIT: Live the Puzzle from MIT Admissions on Vimeo.
When we re-launched our new site last summer with a new design and streamlined navigation, we also made room for video to be featured right on the homepage. Its part of our overall communication strategy to showcase a constantly changing mix of videos -- from old classics dug up from the admissions vault like MIT the Movie and vintage television news footage of one of MIT’s most famous hacks of all time, to music videos like the one we featured of MIT’s amazing acapella group the Logarhythms and student made videos from the Freshman Arts Program.
But its also part of our plan to create some promotional videos of our own to show today’s MIT, in all its living, breathing color.
We’ve already heard from many in early focus group testing who told us they loved the video, and we also heard from some who... read the post »
Dec 22 2011
The Year in Review
Posted in: Miscellaneous, Life & Culture
I love the holiday season, but not for its parties and food, its celebration and decorations, or its gift-giving and well wishing. I love it more for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new one to begin. I prefer the days right after the holidays, taking ornaments off the tree to pack them away while drinking cocoa and listening to my Christmas CDs for the last time. I like recycling wrapping paper, cleaning out closets of last year’s coats and donating them, filing paperwork, going through old emails and cleaning up all of my computer desktops.
And I especially love all the year in review lists.
Because this was my first year in the Admissions office at MIT, I thought I would post 10 highlights of my year in review. And what an awesome year it was!
1. This is a view of the Charles River during the Fast Light Festival and it also happens to be my nightly walk over the Charles River to my commuter train at Ruggles. Need I say more?
2. The 150th... read the post »