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• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  know that stuff from the pamphlets you read over and over again (I'm on ... do I mean by that exactly? Well since you asked, here is a list of things I've done thus far for IAP not necessarily in chronological order

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  MIT thinks that it catches on fire. On more than one occasion I've found ... stop blinking before heading back into the dorm to resume whatever I was ... knows more about this than I do, but the gist of it is that Simmons has

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I ... slipping? I've played with my tablet and written up the answers nice and ... omega. Here's my solution: This is just one of many problems I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  !!!1!!1"? ;) Anywhoo, I'm an Associate Adviser this year to 5 froshies, Jeremy, Orit ... and today, and I thought I would post some of the good things that came ... homesickness is merely this: don't stay in your dorm room. At least for me, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  categories you see at the top of the site. I decided this afternoon that I ... a category, I noticed that one of my options was "Early Action Versus ... figure, I guess that's the label I should pick. I've also tagged this as "Q

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  anyway, so I don't think this is such a big error as people make it out to ... completely honest, I would say that 75% of the movie is not based on the book ... hall. Lecture halls in that format aren't common at MIT (i.e. long table

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  Tomorrow, I expect MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, will publish ... 's rate, approximately 1 in 9, is a lot lower than when I applied in 1996 (1 ... from last year) and 730 critical reading. But I think that this year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn ... stress? I walked into my room one day to find a very strange and startling scene. I knew, the instant I saw it, that the stress and pressure of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Go to one in a town near you, and send in your pictures/reviews.

  

  all of the Admitted Students Parties. Today, I'd like to highlight a few ... a park in a beautiful ridge line neighborhood (I wish I could be at ... review here, I'd love to hear about it! And if you take some digital photos

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  9:30am: I'm not blogging about admissions today, because at noon the 2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a ... on these four puzzles from my entry earlier this week. I've posted some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about ... excitement, the same fears, the same pressures. I'd like to provide an outlet ... harm your application. I will only publish your first name, last initial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  the Euro. This spring, the class is heading to Amsterdam, and I think I ... other countries, and credit is awarded upon return to MIT. As I recall ... the opportunities available to the student body as a whole. But now I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  Pounds, 17. "I'm so ecstatic to get into college life." What drove her to ... , adding that the big company would pay the expensive costs of horse care. "I ... daughter. "Ted and I both said, 'This is yours,' " Patty Pounds said. "We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of ... , but I was wondering. What's the policy on non-MIT-students being in/visiting the dorms?" I found the official policy here. Students are allowed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  past year getting to know each other, and I'm glad we'll have to next four years together, too. (I hope you'll stop by 3-107 from time to time and say hi to Ben, Nance and I!) It's going to be a wild ride -- fasten

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  Yep, I'm officially Course 11. A few interesting things have happened this week. - Thanks to a freight derailment in Idaho, I spent most ... time was had by all. I invited a fellow who is actually an alumnus of my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  Last weekend, I went to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). All MIT ... . Look at the good weather, even in November! I wonder how long this will last... This ship is part of the "Things I Love" collection, on loan

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  my boyfriend and I ended up at the water park in the first place is ... ridiculously good skiier (that really is him, by the way). I'm from a beach family in Ohio; I am of the firm belief that summer is not summer until one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  ! -- the applicant Class of 2010. As for me, I spent a good part of today preparing for upcoming travels, including some college fairs I'll be attending ... runners!) go right by the Phi Sig house. It's really pretty cool. I need to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  I'll start off by linking to some of your photos: Anthony et al ... nice to see folks I met last summer on campus (you know who you are), or ... changes over time -- like Jenna, who I somehow didn't recognize, or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005