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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  doesn't look like this: Well I may not go to see the fireworks today, but in a few minutes I will watch the Germany vs. Italy semifinal match ... strangely similar to those for pasta. Bacilli with tomato sauce, anyone? Ok

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day

  

  /comments/rants on campus dining Help make a difference on campus! -------- ... to pick up your UMA pi day T-shirt! All contest winners get pi ... you to the Pie + Ice Cream Study Break! Tuesday, 3.14 @ 7 PM Student

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  21 years old. Well, it's been a while. According to MT I started ... microfabricated fuel cell that could be used to power a cell phone. We filled Ruth ... hard drive crashed. I'm a Mac user now. I need to find a way to acquire

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  Jessie '07 sure has a cool life. But so do I, sometimes. Yesterday I was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ... great weather and explore for a couple minutes. By the way, it's sunny

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much ... also a good time to tell them about why you're applying to each school ... these conversations very helpful. If a teacher asks you to write the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  love what we do, connecting world-class students who have a passion to ... . There is a deep trust placed in us by the MIT community, and indeed, by ... We were all saddened by the news of Marilee Jones' resignation. In

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... (here are a couple). And every new year, I find his musings to be just as

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist ... waitlist that we will not be able to offer them admission. We offered a spot ... . But now, as a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist ... waitlist that we will not be able to offer them admission. We offered a spot ... . But now, as a high number of admitted students have chosen to enroll, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google has a new site up: http://moon.google.com. If you zoom in close enough, you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I ... different kind of anxiety -- a waiting game. A countdown to 9AM on December 15 ... fall victim to the waiting game. Take a deep breath. Inhala, exhala

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  , as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone ... . Last Thursday, I attended a Science Journalism panel sponsored by the MIT ... science journalist. I went there just to get a feel for what a career in

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

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  From May 9th to May 13th (a Friday, naturally), MIT students endured ... 's like calling everything and everyone a flurg - you start to wonder what ... realize that your schedules may look like this (click 'em to make them

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  instant help by the biggest water organization in Haiti was definitely a ... , a big organization put together by the UN based around water and ... first organization we went to - we'd also stopped at CAMEP, a company that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back ... door button was right next to a lot of other important buttons on my i ... submitted the video to Hack A Day. (In response to whoever commented, "that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East ... shop, eat, see a movie, or simply take a walk down the Freedom Trail to ... costs and a way to see a child prodigy in action. I’m also a fan of Kilted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  found ourselves, at 6:30AM, at the beginning of the end, ready to make the ... 're definitely not in Boston anymore... After a three hour drive, we made it to ... about the Olive Garden that draws cross-country teams like moths to a

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how ... applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don't just see them ... several times by various committees. In other words, an application is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  ! Beyond these valuable life lessons, I've also been lucky enough to take a ... to possessing one or more of these qualities: being a simple story ... a bit of a different spin, bringing in guest speakers every class to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent ... a speed-dater would agree to a real date. It was a good sign, Madan ... during speed dating sessions and discovered a way to predict whether

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005