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• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  Medical Report and the Supplemental Medical History for Varsity Athletes ... long! These were all due August 1st (yesterday, for those of you who are ... required for all incoming freshmen, so I hope everyone met the deadline

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Commencement On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on Killian…

  

  Killian Court for the MIT Commencement ceremonies. For the curious, here ... . Killian Court opens to parents at 7:30am, but the Commencements ceremonies ... Admissions Marilee Jones! Above, Marilee is preparing for an interview with a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  Thanks to Kiersten for being my 4000th comment! Also, thanks to Jeff ... profoundly frivolous. As director of the Comparative Media Center at the ... uncomfortable for some in the culture industries, which aren't accustomed to this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  with some of the MIT Class of 2009 folks who are here for ISEF: From ... -Population Data Set Near-Infrared Albedo and Flux Variation of Saturn's Rings at 2 ... Inexpensive, New Technique for Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis Today, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  it takes a bit longer. They are not all mailed at the same time, so if ... ) They are mailed via regular mail for domestic students and via DHL for ... likely receive the NBM® a bit later to allow time for this. 4) The vast

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of ... syndication in various formats: RSS, Atom, etc. Check the right-hand column for syndication feeds. Changed the design to allow for easier reading of entries

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  2,822 applications

  

  nearer. Look for me in the crowds Thursday morning at the Macy ... the weekend reading applications! No Thanksgiving break for us admissions officers... Anyone else have interesting plans for Thanksgiving?

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Boston, through the lens of my children Visiting Boston at 37 years of age was ...

  

  . For those counting at home, that means I was admitted to MIT nearly 20 ... , for those REALLY REALLY counting at home, I'm more than twice as old as ... there for similar reasons and generated this beauty. Looking back at it

  • by Snively '11
  • October 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  ? Do computers play a big part in life in general at MIT, or just for ... ago and stands for Independent Awesome Period (not really, but it might ... (we only have to pay for the cost of our book this year, while EMT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  school, for more than 30 years MIT has helped shape the field of cancer ... development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor. Members of the MIT Center for Cancer Research have included five Nobel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight ... checked in at my hotel near the airport, went for a run along the Liberty ... pit bull Molly at Breach Break Cafe for brunch around 10 AM. I then got

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  , all for just a chance at victory. Even the air here felt elite, spiced ... ’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more force ... the final round. I looked around the room, at the wood paneled walls

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  . Through the Council for the Arts at MIT, you can get free or discounted ... at MIT. If there is something you want to do, there is always some way ... glassblowing and psycholinguistics to creative computation. There are clubs for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  decision for me and I might have hunted for wifi at intersections. When we ... still works. I felt that I had passed a crossroads. For about six years ... . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  cards are actually blue and yellow! The two-letter abbreviations stand for various capabilities of engineering leadership. For example, IR means ... weekend, MIT's Cross Country Team raced at the New England Division III

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  does. She realizes that this opportunity at MIT should not be taken for ... Indulge me for a moment. How many times have we seen the movie in ... mention that now? You may be surprised by how many first year students at

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  , especially Bio and Chem, online at MIT Open Course Ware. While studying for the ... Requirements—GIRs). When looking at MIT, my first thought after learning about ... .01, Physics Mechanics (you’re still on the hook for Electricity and Magnetism

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a ... ’ve tried regularly working out at many points in my life, and this summer was ... for shirataki noodles! I snuck in vegies in my dinners! And I actually

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  afford to get better at it, and I know this class will be good for me. It ... I've consistently done this type of post for [annotation note ... "]almost[/annotation] every semester till now, I figured that I'd do it for old times sake

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  first concert two Saturdays ago, at Harvard. Admission was free for ... Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far ... temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019