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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke in the Hayden library stacks this afternoon. This is the weekly magazine The Nation. This is the first half of ... favorite section is the science notes, which include Charles Darwin

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are ... estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  two years in Next House. I like the description on the Next website, so I'll put it here: " We are one of the largest and friendliest dorms ... out, have fun, and enjoy their time at MIT. Situated on the banks of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  'd say hi. We began RA selection on Friday morning, with the official kickoff meeting. By 1PM the committee was looking at its first applications ... I arrived at 8:30AM on Saturday morning, the Infinite looked like this

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate from MIT": Visit the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The drawing class that I've been taking through the Student Art Association has rekindled

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  For the fourth consecutive year, we will admit students from our waitlist. Within the next few days, we plan to admit approximately 60 students from the waitlist. When our waitlist decisions are finalized, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? MIT developed the first college undergraduate programs ... Engineering. Today I decided to do start doing things the Greek way as I was inducted or inaugurated or initiated or something into the MIT chapter of Tau

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  If you've walked down the Infinite before, you've probably seen doors ... :   What you probably don't know is that, since 1994, all of the ... 've redistributed personnel throughout the rooms that make up the admissions office

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  dream could have been realized. But alas, the show is only airing its ... team has just two days to complete the project. Challenges range from ... before putting their work to the test. Keeping their eyes on the grand

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  my part :(. The Great North American Eclipse happened on April 8th ...   Amber  Ali Audrey Kano '25 I felt profoundly small. The world was ... first, it felt like nothing was happening but, then, the entire landscape

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  year instead a prefrosh's: there's less of the aimless wandering, the obsessive map-scanning, and the free stuff-hoarding, but there's still plenty of the sleep loss, the mingling with prefrosh, and the unreserved

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  people in Göd öf Wär III*, I, like everyone else in the office, have spent most of the last week working on stuff for Campus Preview Weekend, including how to make it more accessible for the students who attend. One

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that Laura blogged this almost two years ago! Where have I been?] The I/O Brush is a project by Kimiko Ryokai in the Tangible Media Group at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a commercial that ran during football season titled "You make the call." The idea ... just before you're told how the ref rules, the screen freezes and a voice

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... . David is off to the CUNY Honors College next year. The STS awards ... event. With all the glitz, the people dressed to the nines, the great food

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  There has been some discussion on CollegeConfidential and in the comments on my post announcing the 12/17 12:17 EA decision release. Specifically discussion about the reasons we picked that date and time. My

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones Sam is the funniest, though... BOTB and CPW Feedback.

  

  Marilee Jones's singing voice when she sang to the students who had birthdays over Campus Preview Weekend, but the real show was during Battle of the Bands. Now this was the 4th annual BOTB, so that means it's been

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  The thing that happened My phone was buzzing all day Friday with emails regarding the same Thing, the same event, the same new information. As Sabrina described vividly, even the initial subject line seemed

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  , and I have accomplished more than the average MIT student does in an ... stumbles over my roommates' chairs, I was out of the door of my fraternity and on my bike, riding through the cold and wet January air. I rode

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  [Part of the Up-Goer Blogs] Every year, a group of so-called important people in the show business pass out little men and women to those who they think did a good job at making movies and TV shows in the year

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024