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• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  A few weeks ago, I sent this email to a bunch of my friends: Hey everyone, As you may know, I am not-so-secretly a blogger for MIT Admissions. I want…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  Waaaaaaaah! You’ve moved on to ’13 already!? I don’t feel loved anymore! Waaaaaah! Yikes guys, chill! You’re like, 2 months away from MIT, it’s time to accept the fact that…

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now, the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as any to do so. The numbers…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  [I know this is WAY overdue, since Ring Delivery was a while ago, but I blogged Ring Premiere and it would just seem unfair, wrong even, to leave it alone…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   Each time we write a blog entry we have to pick a label for it.…

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS and switch between English and Spanish, so I can now write with accent marks and…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  There are currently a little over 2,500 blogs entries on this site. I don’t know about you, but I think that’s a lot to take in all at once. I…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  You may think you have a pretty good grip on what type of person you are. Let’s face it, you just spent the last four years of your life jockeying…

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  You’d think that if anywhere offered great computing help, it would be MIT. It’s so obvious but up until today I’ve ignored this awesome resource right at my fingertips. You…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  Boston and MIT. Weird names. Hard to pronounce names. Names made harder to pronounce because they have special weird pronunciations courtesy of the Boston population. A while ago I gave…

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  This morning I went for a miserably hot run along a busy road by my house and I decided that I really missed the Charles River and the Zesiger Center.…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  I feel slightly weird to be typing away on the MIT blogs again, when the farthest thing on my mind right now is MIT. BUT – I feel like if…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  Como vosotros debéis saber, voy a pasar el verano trabajando con Telefónica en Madrid. Pues, llegué el sábado pasado- entonces, hace dos semanas enteras que he vivido aquí. Tengo una…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The end, my friend Pictures from my graduation :(

  

  June 2008 seemed an eternity away when I first arrived on MIT’s campus. But lo and behold, yesterday I received my diploma. This won’t be a sappy reflective entry (that…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  They say that today’s graduation theme was “MIT students in service of the world”, but really, it was more akin to, “Ponchos”. We awoke to ominous dark skies today and…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  That title is just a lazy excuse for not being able to come up with a good title. Oh well, that’s life. I’ll start off by saying that I’m writing…

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  I’m happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my freshman year, stayed on campus, that is, working with the LIGO burst team, next to…

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  I spent today playing with yeast cells, and I couldn’t be happier. Let me back up. As you may already know, this summer, I’m working with Professor Angelika Amon of…

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  On May 18th I wrote a blog entry called “Ring Committee” which was about as popular as anything else I write amongst a prefrosh audience but went over like a…

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two Cool Projects

  

  In this second-to-last entry, I want to encourage all of you to check out two projects: (1) Sacha Yaku (“Jungle Water”) The brainchild of Kendra Johnson ’09, Sacha Yaku aims…

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 31, 2008