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• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  that grease, dust, and oil be added to that list, at least for those of ... and Hobbes? Hmph. Guess I'll just have to reference the comic strip awkwardly inline. As fun as it is to play outside, the time-honored sport of

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  witness a lot of beauty in the world; I spent a year in New Zealand and ... adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... about the kind of beauty that arose from symmetry, from clear skin or a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I am an MIT Admissions Officer, AMA you know the drill

  

  It's the middle of July, and my brain is so fried I'm punting on a few projects, so figured I'd make myself useful and answer some ... comments and answer them in the blogs. That was pre-Disqus, and I think

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive ... reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality instead. Actually ... CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.

  

  ://decisions.mit.edu. You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log ... on the admissions committee put our heart and soul, and our best ... students, and the denied students in the days and weeks to come. In the

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Panic! MyMIT will be inaccessible on Saturday, October 31 from 6:00am until 10:00am EDT for essential…

  

  coming from me the day before instead of in the morning when you fired up ... will be plenty of time for applications after the maintenance is ... As the message on MyMIT says, MyMIT will be inaccessible on Saturday

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 30, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  could write about how much I long for the usual hustle and bustle of MIT ... under a rock for the past few months and only just came out to read my ... meant I have housing at least till the end of the semester, so I didn

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  the way April and I decided to pool our resources and invite Meara '09 ... of the floor...) It was nicer than most meals from home! (Oops, my mom ... really domestic. The other day, our GRT, Chris, took her to Target. When

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  pretty white dress and a crown of black roses, and is being led to the ... is painted in the lounge, and in many other places on the hall, and he ... reawakens - hence the name of the party. We help him reawaken by staging a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  pictures of the band too. These were taken at last Saturday's men's water ... AM while you're marching all over campus. For the sake of brevity, I ... A-woo-hoo! Since the last entry was such a frickin' saga (tm Betsy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the ... the lives of others. MIT students work to improve their communities in

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  demonstrate the values and character of Officer Collier. And his family has suggested that memorial gifts be made to the Jimmy Fund of the Dana ... Police officers from across the country as well as other mourners

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!

  

  involves a bunch of artistic cows placed over the city. A friend of mine has ... 'm not completely sold on the idea, but I did see this cow, and the artist ... Boston is a living GameBoy game this summer with the Cow Parade. All across

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  this time we had a thing where the students who write for us, and also students who went to this school in the past and used to write for us, could ... kinds of them — from people who are still young and also some who are old

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  graphing calculator or Petri dish* and you can hear the distant sounds of ... old homestead. It’s not a complete “Night of the Comet” (or “28 Days Later” for those sadly uneducated in the ways of cheesy ‘80s movies

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  globe will be hosting gathering for the Class of 2014, as nearby campus as ... of Columbia), Miami, Chicago, and many more. RSVP information is ... 're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2015!), that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  , and the conversation carries on. If the rules of the game aren’t being ... and all you want to say is “This weather is wild” and “It’s that time of the semester am-I-right?”, then I will happily listen and give the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  students from the waitlist in a 3-round process, and previous years were very ... For the fifth consecutive year, we will admit students from our waitlist. Within the next few days, we plan to admit approximately 60

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  stepped down from the plane and learned how to laugh Typing “h”s instead of ...   Centimeters to Inches   Peering out of the plane ... kisses on the cheek, they were all gone. Replaced by grey handshakes and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  "]No,[/annotation] but I present to you the brief evolution of my dorm room.    Freshman ... choice because the colors made no sense together and she moved out after a ... pillows and silk pillowcases. My tapestry matched the decoration vines and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022