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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for ... . Franco? The technical awards go to engineers and scientists that make most ... love the word nerd, I was quick to post a reply that said something about

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  app (or take it to the post office for postmarking). I am pleased to see ... 'd like it to. We're reading for content, and we're used to seeing the ... mailed materials (e.g. recommendations, etc.) time to show up on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  the next 5 days or so. We hope to meet with 3 students from the University of Zambia (UNZA) before we begin our trip to the community of Mwape ... so exciting to be here finally that the bug bites and jet lag and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Competition Tomorrow Better than Battlebots! 2.007 competition tomorrow!

  

  Alright everyone, tomorrow and Wednesday are the days I am SURE you have been waiting for. In the Johnson Athletic Center at 6:30 pm, we will be having the first round of the 2.007 competition. Wednesday at 7

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary ... was the point. Not because I'm trying to show off - I read most of those

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Enjoying the Little Things In which I ramble about happiness and taking breaks

  

  -changing moments (of which I've had none in the past two weeks, to my knowledge), I decided to make a vlog about the little things that make me happy. If you want to see more Inktober things, feel free to scroll through my Twitter

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of ... going to the darkroom because it’s “therapeutic”. I can’t exactly disagree ... , the rest are all 35mm prints. Feel free to ask any questions about artsy

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  proceeded to write little messages all over the beach... D) Mark Zuckerberg ... something to my cello case while I was out of the room. G) My hallmates and I have taken to sitting out in the hall. This is one of our handful of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  The things I do with my Friday afternoon Really, though - how could I resist?

  

  Building to my UROP in building 18 (oh look, it's that map again- the Green Building is 54, and the Dot is McDermott Court) to check on some cell ... trying to find the second chair. Anyway, I just thought I'd share this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 9, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  A recipe for releasing decisions our LARGEST pi(e) day celebration yet...

  

  available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same ... our automated system to reset it. Visit MyMIT and click on the forgotten ...    We decided to bake this enormous pie to remind you that MIT

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question Part 2 An extension of the previous thread, which grew quite long.

  

  Quoting Prashant from the last thread, "Number of ways to compare two applicants from a pool of 10,500 is 10500(C)2 = (10500!)/(2!*(10498!))" I don't need to win the USAMO to know that's a lot of ways. What a lively

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  relative to the general MIT population. How did this happen? There are ... buildings in this area of campus, but in addition to the many dorms it ... roofdeck. East Campus has its courtyard in which the grass refuses to grow

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Brought Something? Um, no. No, we didn't.

  

  There was snow? I kid, I kid. I stayed up for most of the night with Colin '10, Nina '08, and Timur '10 waiting for it to snow. A couple of hours after I left them to go back to my room, snow it did. It wasn't much

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year Everyone! See you in 2006.

  

  2006! :-) B. P.S. A big thanks to Timur for the Santa Banners on Matt ... I'm outa here until Monday, January 2 and I won't be able to respond to email or blog comments until that time, so I just wanted to wish you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What career services are available?

  employment, and 49% of the Class of 2024 went directly to grad school. The ... ,438, according to the most recent Graduating Student Survey. ... applying to graduate or professional school, CAPD has services and programs
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  staff are allowed to take 1 course per term. Some professors may audit a course where they sit in and evaluate the class to make sure that it is ... , it really depends on the purpose. If you want to be course 6, then you

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  the O'Connor Lab, guaranteeing me the shortest commute to work I'll ever have to make. (Yeah, you know I used Paint.) The round trip is less ... needed to be posted on the blogs. Expect a real post from me this weekend

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  compelled to log it here before hitting the sack... Please, please, don ... . You are all superstars, truly. And each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not you go to MIT. It's the truth. -B

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004