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• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  getting to the drive-in window where the lady says, "Here's your Big Mac ... other appetizing choices on the menu, like french fries, or apple pie ... eat the lard for the next year." Alright, so it wasn't actually like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  The UA Committee on Orientation has come out with a report on Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It's finally in its final draft pending approval by the UA Senate. I'm proud of having

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  I'm flying to San Francisco for the long weekend -- hope you kids in ... : Waves from the Motherland Cultural Show THIS SATURDAY, February 18th @ 7 ... Month, come see a FREE show featuring the Logs, Harvard's Ku

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT Economics Professor Daron Acemoglu. The Clark Medal is awarded every two years

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop ... Cafe is the best place in town for soup dumplings (very, very yummy ... ). After dinner, it was over to the Boston Common Theater, Boston's largest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection

  

  Quick update: Right now, the "committee room" (room 10-100, converted for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz: selection of the Class of 2009 begins today at 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  When are decisions announced?

  -March for Regular Action. We'll email instructions for accessing the decision letters as soon as the official release date(s) and time(s) have been determined. Applicants will receive the email about a week prior to the release
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers. On mitadmissions.org, it says the following about the ... Early Action deferred applicants and Regular Action applicants. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education (via a friend at Harvard) comes this story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process. I think my favorite is the private jet/financial aid story from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  the annual conference of the New England Association for College ... . Hundreds of guidance counselors and admissions officers from across the northeast arrive for the NEACAC conference. In the first session of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

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

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  , Jewish food is not. However, tonight, one of the largest lecture halls at ... Hamentashen. One is a sweet and versatile triangular dessert, the other is a ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  winners. I didn’t quite understand the draw of film buffs to the black and white screen either - the action was always so drawn out, the dialogue so ... culture myself, and took a few weeks in the start of the summer after my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  Full disclosure: Regarding the tagline: I have no idea how to write ... 39 tabs open in Chrome (which is apparently the threshold at which the symbols on the tabs disappear and you have no idea where you are clicking

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  them virtually via the webcast of President Obama's speech. The ... can watch a live webcast of the speech here: MIT President Obama Live WebcastHere is the White House Press Release: BACKGROUND ON THE PRESIDENT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let It Be—but I didn't consider myself well-versed in the Beatles ... MIT: Regressions, where I saw footage of Timothy Leary, the father of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  to the end to find out what this is ;)[/caption] Last month, I had the pleasure of competing in dormspam-the-game! Run by [annotation note="I plan ... "]anonymous Gamemasters[/annotation] and funded by the de Florez Fund for Humor, dormspam-the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  the Hokies. Looking back, Campus Preview Weekend was awesome and I was so happy to meet so many of you. I hope you all make the right decision and come to MIT =) If any of you saw the Wall Street Journal today, the

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

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of being on the Class of 2026 Ring Committee! Ring Committee, also known as RingComm, is a group of twelve students tasked with designing the Brass

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024