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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Activities Midway Each year, MIT exhibits its 300+ student activities. Friday, I checked them out for you.

  

  event that showcases hundreds of MIT's student groups (you may have seen this over at Sam's blog). Of MIT's 300+ groups, approximately 250 of them were on hand for the event. You can click here to view the entire list

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  Apple? Stop by one of our largest Admitted Student Meetings on the East ... Hi! I’m Brenna Heintz, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT. Now that I’ve finally emerged from my first season of reading

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  of free food? I'm excited. So much so that I'm running two East Campus events. Guess what they are based on this picture of my bookshelf. Since I ... attend without the aid of a time machine, so to jump on the blogger

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action this year I'm so impressed with our applicants

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... especially loved reading about all the ways students are aligned with MIT ... previous years, this was an extremely selective Early Action cycle. Of those

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  philosophies for some time.  (Regular friends are well aware of this, and are also sick of me talking about it.  By the way, have you seen the latest ... ; This, however, does mean a few things: (1) I've dropped out of MIT for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church ... better way to relax after a long week than a free a cappella concert by the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Wir fahren nach Berlin! Bullet holes in the cemetery walls, plus Liv Tyler.

  

  was having a lengthy relationship with Todd Rundgren around the time of ... with history, and I want to get back and see the 99% of the sights that I ... knew that they were out of it as soon as Zinedine Zidane headbutted that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  place on the hierarchy of desk assembly, and it took me at least 45 ... Incident of the Box in the Night-time was performed at least four times on ... , the entirety of the drawer declares mutiny and goes madly deskless. It

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  , which is this week long celebration of Greek life on campus, which is kind ... middle of all that awesomeness is the awesomeness that is Ben Folds on ... IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  If there were an MIT blogger Hall of Fame, Mollie would definitely be ... community as member of the MIT Cheerleading Team (yes, MIT has a Cheerleading ... neat (and Emmy-nominated!) series called The Secret Life of Scientists

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  , the conclusion of our transfer admissions cycle, seems as good a time as ... lot of great students we weren't able to admit. It's true that MIT ... admission. I'm sure that among this group of students we weren't able to admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  . From a homemade floating vehicle on the Charles River. Enterprising MIT students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the July 4th fireworks. Some of my friends have gone the extra mile. In 1876

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caps Lock Pancakes DINNERISH.

  

  For the past four and a half years I’ve lived on an all-women’s floor called BMF (badass mother—s) in Random Hall. Most of our social and home ... tea, and a few times a semester we bring two thirds of that activity to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  on. You can think of essay questions as instruments which elicit a ... best we can, which is how we've settled on our current format of ... I've got applications on the brain. Last week, we posted the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  captain of the team, but not the captian. Someone might be on the school ... Every year, the MIT admissions staff reads tens of thousands of ... admissions selection process. During that process, we notice a lot of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Vol. III Everyone gather 'round the laptop 'cause it's movie time!

  

  've been going on to Facebook, enjoying plenty of potty humor and having impromptu dance parties of my own... ...I'M HOME AND IT'S AWESOME. More ... 's a video. Boom. Sorry in advance for the singing. If any of the other

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • July 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  President Susan Hockfield

  

  Hockfield on her first day as president of MIT.   Monday, December 6 ...   To: "All Members of the MIT Community" From: "Kathryn A ... for Susan Hockfield   To all members of the MIT community:  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?

  -year applicant regardless of how many units of study you may have taken at the university level. Information on transfer credit is available at the Office of
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of ... innovation toward climate science, including the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, the Joint Program on the Science and Policy