Search

Search Results

• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  “It’ll be over before sunrise.” The first time I heard it, midnight was approaching like a derailed train headed toward Charleston, West Virginia, the most important city in the world…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  Today is an important day. The end of an era, the beginning of a new one. I know that I, personally, have been counting down to this day for almost…

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon EA Students, This One's For You!

  

  Ok Early Action accepted students (AKA prefrosh), stay by your phones for the evening, because MIT is calling YOU! That’s right, tonight is the Early Action telethon when current students…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Back in the sepia-toned pages of my high school years, Personal Finance was one of two classes that the school administrators recognized as a practical art, colloquially known as an…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  A belated happy new year! „ÄÄÔºà„ÅÇ„Åë„Åæ„Åó„Ŷ„ÄÅ„Åä„ÇÅ„Åß„Å®„ÅÜ„Åî„Åñ„ÅÑ„Åæ„ÅôÔºÅÔºâ So I’m in Japan this IAP! Last IAP, I spent it in Madrid, with MIT’s IAP Spain program (which is being conducted right now…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  ‘sup yall? Sorry I haven’t blogged lately. The truth? I’ve been enjoying the laziest IAP I can muster. I sleep until at least noon every day, I’m not registered for…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  A couple of days ago, I was working on an entry talking about all the things I was planning on doing during IAP…and then I got distracted by, well, IAP.…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris’ post, but then it stopped being brief, so I decided to post it here. Anyway, some of…

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  **I’ve been having computer issues for a few weeks, so this entry was written a while ago, but I’ve been unable to publish it until now. Enjoy!** *GASP* *PANT* wow!…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  Tonight’s blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT Class of 2013. A…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  I feel less guilty publishing this during IAP since IAP is designed to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the beginning…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  So I was really tired last night. I’d been in northern Michigan snowboarding with a couple of my friends from high school, and if you’ve ever been skiing or snowboarding…

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  [Guest Entry from Kelsey Kennedy ’12] When I sat down late last April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT that I would, in…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  MIT Admissions has extended the deadline for applying for regular admission to January 3. The freshman application can be submitted through MyMIT. Additional forms, including teacher recommendation forms and the…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  As I mentioned in my last entry, Change.org is running a competition that’ll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next administration’s agenda. In Round 1, people came up…

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  Happy New Year, everyone! As much as I loved the MIT gym, I don’t want my last entry on the MIT Admissions website to be about the Z Center. So…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  This is another one of those entries that’s going to make admissions cringe when they see the title. Dining is the current hot topic at MIT for a variety of…

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in a quad in Baker House. Four women, one big room, and all the fun and…

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  Thanks to the miracles of modern transportation, I’m wringing out this week’s MIT roundup from the wrong side of the Mississippi. (Internal aside: The previous sentence sounds like it was…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year! And so two thousand nine begins...

  

  Happy new year everyone! I’m hanging out at my sister and brother-in-law’s new house, enjoying the snow and festivities. (By the way, for those who always seem surprised when they…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 1, 2009