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• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at ... you, I assume) am spending the day working on applications. Most of the ... competent as people think they are. (MIT's Careers Office held a workshop on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  Up until last Thursday, my only on-air experience was the one time I ... . So last Thursday, one of my friends, Shaye, who has a radio show on WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  , and our friend Mark, who used to live in our suite and now just lives on ... and sunny, and we got started right away on one of the innertube rides ... on the newest water slide, Dragon's Den. And I got to run around with a

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

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  . The fireworks on Fourth of July. The colors in and around the city ... movies on the Esplanade during the summer. The many, many ice cream shops ... right answer to a question on an application. There is only the right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  room reading a book and my nifty-cool-non-default email sound came on ... very familiar topic. After reading on, I discovered that the article was ... our "Liver-on-a-Chip" project. Our research project is partially funded

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  On the third day there was abundant sunshine and temperatures were in ... picture of it? Hey, look, I was really hiking. Joe notices that on a ... swelling's not nearly as bad as it was on Monday. Oh, I'm getting a phone

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  photos from the first stop on my trip -- London. Check back soon for the ... Palace on the River Thames Westminster Palace and St. Stephen's Tower ... Theatre, on The Strand The Royal Courts of Justice Entering the Tower

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• 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 ... machine which is turned on full blast during all the performances). My

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

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... , 11 have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. MIT Economics

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

  More CPW Pix

  

  nice to see folks I met last summer on campus (you know who you are), or last fall on the road (so do you). Even then, the image in your head ... people who had never met before were getting on like old friends. If you

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

  CPW Day 1 A recap, with pictures.

  

  nitrogen ice cream via the Prefrosh Festival on the way back, and I've been ... sitting on the same registration chair for 14+ hours today. Woot! Mitra has ... news is that this has been an ideal place to see people as they arrive on

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  than 500 students are on the waitlist. More than 8,000 students, or 80 ... arrive early next week (for many, on Pi Day!). Some folks were calling the office today asking for their decision (reasons: I'm going on vacation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  Having received my MIT degree in Management Science, I'm still on the ... -of-the-art trading room ever built on a university campus. Identical in every detail to ... carrying on the school's tradition of pioneering research in finance and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  On Selection Day 8 (Thursday), I wore a skinny tie, and worked with ... of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the ... required reading. In short, lots going on as we race toward the mailing of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  's going on in MyMIT land? I submitted a big proposal just before holiday ... portlets in the next month or two based on requests that you've made for ... date instead of by user-preferences. Based on the feedback I've recevied

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  : I got fed up with racing home from school everyday to check on the ... , and the letters M-I-T inside. looking forward to checking up on this ... arrival of an admit letter. Finally, a little after 3pm on December 19, 2003

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  . Unfortunately, I brought the bureaucracy on myself. Many good questions have been ... 're still planning to be on schedule. Hopefully everyone would have their ... ) < P(Gimmel on the dreidel). Chetan asked a series of interesting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid, by the way) played ... 't dwelling on the derivation of equations but rather getting to the guts of the ... be done on this problem -- and many, many other problems to be solved

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  to be reflected on your Applicant Status page (located in the MIT ... official transcript from your school counselor on your Applicant Status page ... QuestBridge Supplement, and they will receive directions on how to submit
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  , please allow 7–10 business days for this to be reflected on your Applicant ... school counselor on your Applicant Status page after you submit your QB ... , and they will receive directions on how to submit their letter. We also