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• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  , particularly at the only college about which I know anything substantial. The ... lot more wordy (surprise surprise). The most important thing you will learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Boston is a living GameBoy game this summer with the Cow Parade. All across Boston, the Jimmy Fund has been sponsoring The Cow Parade which basically involves a bunch of artistic cows placed over the city. A friend of mine has

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ZigZag Episode 8 A new video podcast episode.

  

  Episode 8 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now; I serve as host for this episode. My favorite part was getting to interview the "red jackets," MIT's 50 year reunion class: the Class of 1956. Check it out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  Senior Week, we celebrate the graduating class and provide them with their final week of excitement at MIT. Events include "Breakfast with the Professors," a trip to Six Flags New England, and Tech Night at the Pops. And

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Update from Kentucky

  

  come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone ... (two on each day with a day in the middle), my 21st birthday (between the ... of good friends ranging from the classes of '93 to '07 (Friday night

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  nothing special

  

  , it's Sunday. :-) It will be fun to spend the summer at MIT. Summer housing is available to basically any continuing undergrad -- the cost is ... , whether or not they actually are members, because the costs are often far

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  around the world - a Habitat for Humanity event, this year they built walls ... my camera to the concert (which was held in our gym). It turns out that ... . As a result, I don't have any pictures to post. =( Anyway, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Come to AXO Lip Sync! Come to AXO Lip Sync tonight to see some of your friends... "remember when????"

  

  entertained? If you answered yes to any or all of the questions above, buy a ... :30) WHERE: Johnson COST: $6 in advance, $7 at door WHY: To support the Cambridge YWCA, and because Lip Sync-ing is awesome All proceeds from the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  As I wrote in a previous entry, I signed up to run the Back Bay 5K ... the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last ... had a very nice view of the Esplanade while running. Here, some of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2006 Day 1 Campus Preview Weekend has begun! [photos]

  

  many familiar faces! Mitra helps to check in one of the first students to arrive. Hundreds of families checked in during the first several hours of CPW. Dean Marilee Jones poses with Star from Hawaii. The evening

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  I'm really exhausted :-) I'm working the CPW registration desk during the following times: Thursday: 8:30am-11am, 5pm-8pm, 9pm-10pm Friday: 7 ... to the Meet the Bloggers event on Friday, from 8:30pm-10pm. It should

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The chocolate chip cookie was invented in Massachusetts by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1937. She was working at the Toll House Inn ... the stuff that happened while I was home, except that not much really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Rome! Gelato, Saint Peter's Basilica, and Vespas for an entire week.

  

  In about 6 hours, I'll be boarding a plane and going to... ROME! Seeing as I haven't packed or exchanged money yet, this blog entry will have to stay short but look out for entries live from the capitol of the

  • by Bryan
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  So the title is pretty obvious, I'm modeling this entry after Sam's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I started applying to college. I went into the whole process knowing that I

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  blog comments about it in the last month, so I figured it was a hot topic and that you'd appreciate the update. All I can say is that we're trying ... the obvious need for exhaustive testing and the nature of the admissions

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The melody of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's "I Don't Know How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of ... remarked that it was amazing that two composers could come up with the exact

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  11,231 Applications

  

  Today's issue of MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, accurately ... (this number will probably change slightly by the time we get to selection committee). While the article (as Ben has pointed out) contains a number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  from The Nance Effect. As hard as it is to believe, even I needed to take ... call the "Nance Effect" a home of sorts, thank you for your continued ... The Nance Effect has become a true on-line community. What does that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  -- Hardware The Robotic Life group in the Media Lab is looking for a UROP to help with a project applying sociable robots to the real-world problem of ... this UROP position include integrating a wireless pedometer into the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fold, Throw, Recycle I used to get in trouble for doing things like this.

  

  In kindergarten, I used to get in trouble for throwing paper airplanes in class, but apparently, that's not the case at MIT. I received ... more on MIT AIAA, check this out. Photos from the event to follow.

  • by Bryan
  • December 11, 2005