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• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  On Friday evening, I was lounging around being bored. There were ... about the culture I live in is that many alunmi stay involved for years after they graduate. I enjoy talking to them - well, most of them

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  don't find this kind of thing at other schools. In fact, I couldn't make ... - complete with photos. I am sad to report that the story doesn't have the happiest of endings. I think Amrys summarized it best with this quote: "Never

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  Yes, I'm in the American Southwest... Yesterday, I had ice cream with some of the MIT Class of 2009 folks who are here for ISEF: From ... Inexpensive, New Technique for Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis Today, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM ... by the ARC - so my knowledge thereof is a bit limited. I just spoke ... enormous pile of folders they have waiting to go out. So here's what I can

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 5 and a day off (kinda)

  

  up on chores, etc. It was nice to have a day at home, though I used the ... . Tonight, I'm going to a screening of the Oscar-nominated short films at the ... Russian and Jewish folks. Tomorrow will be Selection Day 6; I also hope to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  . Though it's been a lot of work, I've been having a lot of fun. Selecting ... . I only wish we had room at MIT for more of the amazing people on the table. So while we're buried in the committee room, here's a topic I

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  -filled college admissions discussion sites; this one made me laugh out loud: I ... ) 5. I forgot what the last one was, but it was some weird national ... , guarantee admission? I think not. We admit people, not numbers or achievements.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of ... # of the office suite I share with Matt and a few other folks, directly ... meantime I've finally responded to your most recent comments at the end of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  Today I spoke with MIT News about the impact the Supreme Court ... , on the blogs, I want to share some personal reflections on what this means to me, both because I am ultimately responsible for the makeup of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  , which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while you're here, and we have your attention, I would like to ask for your ... finally got the budget and the design firm to do it right, and I'll be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  Now with my internship going into its 8th week, I figured I should write something about what I'm doing. =p This really has nothing to do with MIT, so be forewarned. =D Since the middle of June, I have been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  Terence '13 Christy '13 At the end of the article about Sean, I've attached ... of thinking, a lot of numbers. I guess maybe that's why I was always ... second-team all-district in Division I as a senior. He played on the 2007

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  Hiya. So on my way back home to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, I took the ... Philadelphia, but it's the best I've got on my home computer. Anyway, we arrived ... . Since I watch The Amazing Race every week, I knew that the first things we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  Earlier this week I blogged about Michael Lewis' commencement address ... little I can add to Khan's awesome address, so I will instead link you to ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Andi and Aiden this year, I was also fortunate to have two Next Haunt ... . If you haven't read Part 1, I encourage going back and reading it for ... arranging the build and actually running the thing. Because of that, I wanted

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  January I wrote a post, “Colors”, detailing the MIT community’s response to ... faculty and administration in the cooperative manner I described in “Colors”. I am honored to present here this work, which can only be described as

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  I have received a lot of questions from prospective or current Minerva ... . The answer is that it is probably not. I stand by my analysis at the time, and am leaving this post up because I still think the critique

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  I did three things on Saturday, and each one of them rocked. Better ... benefit concert involving REM, Cake, and the Clash. Okay, maybe I ... and Steer Clear Ruth ('07), Matt ('08), and I went down to Chinatown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  ,” which I ended up taking this past spring, and (to put it simply) thought ... a just society. I guess with this post I was hoping to share with you one of the topics in the class I found most exciting - one about which I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  have been redirected as well.  I know that this may be a frustrating ... looking forward to beginning her university studies this fall, so I have ... Making Caring Common report was released in 2016, I wrote that an important

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020