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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  ball. Find the gum ball using only your mouth and the first person to ... many people came to watch, how many played, and if your team won. Sunday ... up of 27 fraternities and 5 sororities (with one more coming to campus

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MITE2S, RSI, and more

  

  after a day of reviewing applications to MITE2S. As an admissions officer, I enjoy working to provide a group of young people with educational opportunities. It is always interesting to read your stories, to learn more about

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

  Scholarships

  

  applications to fill out. Then, of course, there are regular applications to complete. And finally, there's the scrambling to apply for scholarships. Scholarships are nice. They provide you money for college (offsetting your Self

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  .   Within the past year, I flew to North Carolina on a propeller ... to succeed and focused on getting the entire MIT community involved. At ... to San Francisco during spring break. It was my first time on the West

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  friends said on a daily basis (note: I was going to link to it, but then I ... minus sign. Please do not do this unless you wish to find minus signs on ... effect is like when you're at a party, and you're talking to someone, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money, but when is it NOT a great opportunity to sightsee on MIT's money? Mmm, $40 sashimi dinners.) As this whole ... and then you have to dump ice cold water on yourself." Needless to say

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  Now on to the athlete part. This past week has featured some pretty ... bus to Rochester, NY for the first round of the NCAA tournament. If you’re ... ’s starting to settle down a bit now, but the initial jump from IAP to “SURPRISE

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  Old Navy? Psh. I have to argue with parents to put lifejackets on their ... get to be awesome and actually save lives. For real. I know, I know, you're ... on the slide and jump in to save two different kids. So that's my job

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  next four years. Your EC will be able to help you with lots of the ... really good time to get in touch with your EC to set up an interview. The ... application. So...consider this my gentle nudge to get in touch with your EC and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  that your human existence depends on. Do you recognize this guy? This ... the cells in your brain talk to each other. In other words: it allows ... .01: Introduction to Neuroscience Right now, you’re reading this post. The pre-9

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  Heroes," based on local, hometown news articles about students goign off to ... talks with his father on education being equivalent to success. "Before my ... assistance he can. "I feel like it's my duty to make an impact on the world

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online ... comments on this blog post to concentrate conversation in the open threads

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  ? me either I just googled "hard math") To fulfill this, you're required ... class this year is 21M.030, or as you'd want to tell your grandmother ... there) I think it's safe to say that there is a lot of stuff that goes on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  them. I think it’s interesting to look back on all those little ... , during my trip to work on the Muti Water Project (see the blog post "A ... back to Muti to keep working on the water project, after a short stop to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well ... available to them.”  A corollary is that “…we may look just as favorably on ... to better understand you and your achievements.

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Two important reminders

  

  for this school year's final SAT administration on Saturday, June 4, are fast approaching. Today, Friday, April 29, is the regular deadline to ... for U.S. students to sign up. Remember that we require, in addition to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  As the May 1st reply date has passed, I know many people on the waitlist are anxious to hear an update. Although a few things are still settling down, we wanted to give you all an update as soon as possible

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  site to learn more about him. My favortite page is the one on which he ... to change the world. That part was just icing on the cake. As he ... happened between people in your life. Maybe most of them come down to one

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 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…

  

  to report. Enjoy the rest of your weekends! ... 'd say hi. We began RA selection on Friday morning, with the official ... . Exciting! As I've mentioned, we also work on weekends during selection. When

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

  First read

  

  gather for our meeting to get us prepared to read your thousands of ... Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... each have read this weekend, getting on the same page as far as what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004