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• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  trusty merrells 059. Store you've been in? the MIT coop Favorite... 060 ... you wearing? MIT Battle Of The Bands '06 069. What brand of shoes are

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  Parents are always the optimistic ones, right? My mom always has a response for me when I claim I made a mistake: We don’t make mistakes; we just create new…

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  World Cup Challenge Results The answers and winners of the World CUp Challenge of MIT international admissions.

  

  The World Cup Challenge was a lot of fun! No one got a perfect score, but on the whole, people did pretty well. Below are the results, with the name of the country in each group from which MIT received the most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  Mass Ave. There are shorter ways from Porter to MIT than Mass Ave. I ... Massachusetts Avenue." MIT is 77 Mass Ave. "Oh, that's depressing," I thought

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  out, have fun, and enjoy their time at MIT. Situated on the banks of ... good. MIT doesn't have meal plans like most schools. Instead, your id

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

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  organisations." The group of MIT of students who have entered the rally has ... website and make a donation. You can contact them at technomads@mit.edu

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  Campus Preview Weekend is fast approaching, and I’m sure many of you admitted folks are excited! I just got back from an amazing week in Scandinavia and I think it’s…

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

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  Applicants, if you're reading this, I hope that MIT is one of the ... to choosing a college. Just before accepting this position at MIT, I ... -ordered busing in the 1970's. When I pressed him to be specific and about MIT, he

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  has an incredible amount of passion for research and loves that at MIT ... a job. He says, "at MIT, it's good to always be on the lookout for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 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…

  

  eerie, as I've never seen that before. But it's good to know that MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  at M.I.T., the U.S.'s premier engineering school, the traditional ... consulting. "If you're an M.I.T. grad and you're going to get paid $50,000 to ... MIT students leaving engineering and the sciences for consulting and

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Institute Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II this term? Just a thought before I get…

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  For My Fellow Coffee Lovers Out 3 choices will soon be 4.

  

  The Tech announced yesterday that Anna’s Taqueria will be getting a new neighbor this summer – a 24-hour Dunkin’ Donuts, right in the student center. YES!!!!! This may surpass even…

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  cycle (and the cycle-dependent status of the MyMIT database), we will not

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  So after getting a few questions and comments about DesigNerds, I decided to email the grad student behind the project, Barry Kudrowitz. From: Barry To: Bryan “that’s great that students…

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  after my freshman year, and I think it was a really good decision. At MIT ... nine graduate programs: BU, Berkeley, Caltech, Harvard, Michigan, MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  The Tech published an article today that contains some significant factual errors. In particular this statement: "Although MIT limits the number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Birth Of Baby Nance Regular updates from labor through delivery (guest-hosted by Ben).

  

  Hi folks, Ben here, with an update from The Nance, who called me at 7AM to tell me that his wife’s contractions were 20 minutes apart. (Next time, Bry, just…

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  first discovered at MIT. Both of them were recieved better than my first ... MIT students play. Incidentally, after finishing up the games, we went ... 're at MIT, "Noam Chomsky," "ditzy blond course 7 major," and "valence

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 Already?!? Back to work tomorrow... wow do vacations go fast!

  

  resolved. MIT is observing the New Year's Day holiday today (1/2) since the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 2, 2006