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• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  check it out – they’re a great opportunity to meet some potential future ... MIT! Here are a few highlighted events this coming week; see your MyMIT portal for the locations and times of these events, and for a comprehensive

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  I thought I'd take a tiny break to post a little something. I've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes ... I wrote a couple years ago (see below). As someone commented on Lydia

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my ... documents to this Wednesday, February 1st, at 5 PM ET. This is a mighty good ... .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  admissions selection process. During that process, we notice a lot of ... 's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how ... give a lot of people trouble - it's physics, not pyhsics; physiology, not

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

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  I remember the first time I ever saw a computer. I was four, and my family's basement, which contained my father's office, flooded during a terrible rain storm. My father, an electrical engineer who had swapped a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show Singing, dancing, juggling, and more!

  

  amazing acts at the show: - Chorallaries (a cappella, co-ed) - Jacob Sharpe ... , cheerleading) - Logarhythms (a cappella, all-male) - Ridonkulous (dance, hip ... those that don't know, "a cappella" is basically making music with only

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  Once upon a time, in a land far far away (called New Jersey), a young ... a college admissions officer. Occasionally, this young man had a hard ... life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... ordered. Three hours later, I tripped over my own shoes and fell up a flight ... -inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  hundreds of companies come and court hundreds of students. It's a time when ... their "talk to people not from MIT" routines. It's funny, MIT is in a ... actually were given a 15 minute talk in the bus about how to behave while not

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  opportunity to attend a 3 week base visit called "Ops Air Force" during the summer after their freshman year. This program is a Professional Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  As you may know, MIT has a strong and vibrant Greek community, made ... (pictures below) - Eating contest (pie tin filled with whipped cream and a gum ... blow a bubble wins.) - Participation (team with most cake/pie entries

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a ... offered activities ranging from 2x4 Jenga to big screen DDR to a liquid ... night, including a panel (first video, discussing their "scariest moment

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through ... actually is rather good, I just thought I'd share a few thoughts with you ... over by a bus?) #29 - Hey, how about when they shut down the Harvard

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  Update for Admitted students: We've been hearing reports that a few ... , simply send a message to [email protected] and we'll be happy to take ... '12 had created a job-awesomeness formula for me. To understand it, you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  done a "remarkable job" in that capacity. "Under his committed leadership, the office successfully completed the 2007-2008 admissions cycle--a cycle that saw a record number of applicants and which we have every

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  see my comrades and I could sense that their resolve matched my own. A shrill tone broke the silence and my adrenaline spiked. In a frenzy, we coordinated a flanking attack of the enemy. They fought valiantly to repel our

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  this past spring. In response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC, it's my pleasure to introduce a new guest-author blog that will help ... assume a challenging leadership role early on, and an opportunity to serve

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to Costa Rica to work with their partners in a community to eradicate the ... to create a model for global engagement for students and their partner

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  . I start in a few hours. Now ordinarily, the trainman wouldn't be ... around here and if you want to get around, you need a vehicle. I guess that ... to go wherever you want, whenever you want, even if that involves a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  , Georgia. It's very strange. The first few times I went back to a parental home from my college home, I felt like I was sliding into a different role, a different persona. There was who I was at MIT, and there was who

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006