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• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  Here are some FAQs for deferred students… Is it all over for me? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn’t just a “polite…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  You’ve all heard what most of the other bloggers are doing for IAP, but I’ve been quiet and left you in suspense. This means that you all must be dying…

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch our robot grow up! Grow robot grow!

  

  Sorry for the absence, I’ve been busy (lame excuse, sorry. The actual excuse is that I’m tired of uploading my pictures for this blog because it’s annoying and blog entries…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  When asked how their first shift went, most of my fellow EMT students will say something like, “It was good! No calls, though. Pretty uneventful.” My 4 pm-11 pm shift…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  No, this entry is not about Kelly Clarkson. It’s about FIRST Robotics. This past weekend, I attended the Founder’s Reception and Kickoff Event on behalf of MIT Admissions. I’ll explain…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  My last rendezvous with an ambulance occurred in the suffocating heat of summer ’09, when I so intelligently decided to play Ultimate Frisbee barefoot and promptly tripped over a friend’s…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the Colbert Bump MIT's Riley Crane talks DARPA Challenge on ''The Colbert Report''

  

  Remember when MIT beat out teams from around the world to be the first to find all 10 hidden red balloons in DARPA’s balloon challenge? Well Dr. Riley Crane, the…

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Quick update from SB Where it is not below zero.

  

  In Santa Barbara right now, where I’m soaking up the sun and just getting some R&R before the new semester. This IAP I have just been up and down the…

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 8, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  In case you are like me and still feeling somewhat Christmas-y – maybe it’s that I keep listening to Christmas songs, maybe it’s that we never take down our tree…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  I can’t believe winter break is over. My time spent on vacation flew by ridiculously fast, and now, I find myself back on campus, wondering where the last two weeks…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  Wow; it’s already 2010. Anyways, Monday 1/4/10 marks the beginning of IAP 2010. For those unfamiliar with IAP (Independent Activities Period), it’s basically the whole month of January during which…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  Edit: Aww, shoot! I wrote you all this blog post last night, before I left the house, and then forgot to publish it. Well, here it is, a year late.…

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 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…

  

  Hi, I’m Jess L. ’12. I met Yan during our freshman year (she even unwittingly snapped a picture of me in Diff Eq. around Valentine’s Day http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/life/student_life_culture/valentines_day_special_1.shtml) and continued to…

  • 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’s regular action deadline is January 1. The Office of Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is not accepting emails or answering phone calls (and I am on…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  source: http://web.mit.edu/registrar/stats/yrpts/index.html (fall ’09-’10). O is “undeclared sophomores”. Forgot to list CMS though (16 students). =/ Hahaha it’s actually a pretty hard to read graph, but it’s sequential by major…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  I have done exactly three things since winter holiday ennui sprouted all over the dessicated grids of my post-semester calendar: 1.Baked bread. 2.Read Feynman. 3.Written this list. On second thought,…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my probable choice of major (or however it is they ask you what it is you want…

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of Vermont and New Hampshire. In Vermont, for instance, I lived in the Burlington area, which averages a bit…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 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 after a night of post-finals merrymaking (i.e, a plate…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  This week has been a battle for all of us – I just finished my Multivariable final this morning; let us waddle in the Aftermath for a little bit… —…

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009