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• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  the gamble. If the same respondents are given the two problems on ... start in statistical thinking now. First, a few facts on which to chew: 1 ... 's pointless to try and stick a number on your chances at MIT. I guess the moral

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  many things, have many talents, and are focused on what is really ... Diane Sawyer on ABC's World News Tonight.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  ! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  .) --------------- Thanks for all of the comments on my previous entry about PE classes ... 's sister and I got matching flamingoes/flamingos painted on our faces. We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Reek Week Updated 8/3 to include pictures of Gilroy garlic ice cream.

  

  each year, and that it is the largest food festival in the country. On ... marketing on Apple's part.

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  draw closer, the blogs and MyMIT will have more details on these events. For now, keep an eye on your mailbox, and hopefully we'll be in your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  on a test that had not yet been shown to be a good indicator of a ... the validity of the test. More on this over the coming year... At this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Two important reminders

  

  First, from the College Board: The last two registration deadlines for this school year's final SAT administration on Saturday, June 4, are ... -related reasons by calling our office on Monday. Most other schools will also allow

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

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist ... physically. I threw a party on the Saturday following CPW, which most of my ... on, but become even better - because he owes it to the mentor to do so

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  , we will make a decision on the case; when the midyear grades later come ... that we need to make a decision on your case. I get the sense that some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  It's raining in Boston today, but MIT students are smiling anyway, because today is the grand opening of Anna's Taqueria on campus! Anna ... that it's cheap, definitely on a student budget. Here's Lorelle paying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  Thanksgiving was a beautiful day here on the East Coast -- I watched ... . Let me try to catch up on a few questions (while I'm still backed up ... 't compare two applicants to each other. We evaluate each applicant on their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  time writing/researching. So, from here on out, I'll try to post more ... education, even if it's not one of these brand-name, looks-good-on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  Here’s the thing, I’m usually very lucky on flights. I’m the epitome of the “arrives late to the airport; makes it on the plane anyway ... :34pm. And the next one on our way back to the airport. Buzz. Your

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  wakes up in the “real world” where life carries on as usual ... due at 11:59, and midterms looming. I can’t choose to wake up on a day ... scheduled on my Google Calendar - they’re the spontaneous dinners with friends

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  different squares that you might land on–some are “payday” squares, some are ... donating to a charity. Sometimes, though, you land on a “LIFE” square. Each ... importantly, though, when you land on these squares, you also get to pick up a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  .   feels like it snuck up on me like — ha! — got you   ... always be a part of who you are it just takes on different forms some ... ; Last semester, I went through tough times. things were going on in my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  . Plus, my mom ordered them on the internet, where anyone can say whatever ... it’s real silk, Andi, why would anyone on the internet lie to you ... stretching, which silk has (on the green part of the structure) but polyester

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  deranged. And don’t even get me started on quantum “computers”. I bet you ... sleek and elegant computer you’re probably reading this on right now ... is. What’s next, that shoebox on the table is also a quantum computer

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  : flop on the couch in Zeta Psi common room, wallow in exhaustion, binge ... . As often pointed out on the blogs, MIT culture can make you feel really ... deeper. When you're lying on the couch you conserve energy, which lets your

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025