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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  seriously. There is a great sense of humor here. I also love the collaborative ... Square, Coolidge Corner, Beacon Hill, the North End, just to name a few ... - Christina's, Toscanini's, JP Licks, Herrell's. How it's such a walkable city

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  Boston/MIT-area parties. At Newtonville Books in Newton (a Green Line trip ... . Beginning at 9pm until the "magic" hour, the store will host a "a night of ... Newtonville Books' party so awesome? For one, there's going to be a musical

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yay, weekend!

  

  lights of Black Bemis and talked, which is a popular quiet-night activity ... - because they have stories, and they have useful advice, and a sense of history and perspective. Lex is one of our more active "cruft" (a term

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  check the blog server two or three times a day instead of their usual six ... to their houses for a weekend. Joe lives in Portland, which is "Maine ... well as a fantastic place to spend a weekend. So, I ended up taking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT wins Putnam math competition

  

  were from MIT (including a student I had dinner with on Friday!). The Putnam exam is a difficult set of 12 questions, each worth 10 points for a ... only problems I can write without special characters). A1. Basketball

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Planned Mail Date: March 11

  

  -wracking it can be to wait, but please give the mail a chance! If you don't get your letter by March 18, please give us a call. Right now, the decision

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And Then There Was One Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor.

  

  Folks, it is a sad, sad day in the MIT Admissions Office. Juan Salvador Acosta has broken the pact and succumbed to the mighty razor. His face is as smooth as a baby's, as they say. Which leaves yours truly as

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students ... finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... Waffle" (based out of the Simmons Hall dormitory, which looks like a space

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  understandably, very anxious. I've seen this twice a year for the past four years ... things a little... It was one year ago. Decision letters were in the mail ... hands. I wrote a note to my mailman, telling him to leave anything from

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

  President Susan Hockfield

  

    To: "All Members of the MIT Community" From: "Kathryn A. Willmore" Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:06:22 -0500 Subject: Welcome Reception ... ; You are cordially invited to a community reception to welcome Susan

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases ... Admissions Office staff will be working 6-7 days a week this month, and ... working all the time, I'm going to get back to reading your folders. Have a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made ... applications I've seen. I thought about this for a while, and what I came up with ... understandable; I remember doing a bit of that myself on college apps. I vividly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering?

  WISE (Weekend Immersion in Science and Engineering) is a three-day experience for rising seniors to learn what it is like to be an MIT student ... socioeconomic means, live in a rural area, or might be the first in their family
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can anyone join the Experimental Study Group (ESG)?

  their education. Instruction takes place in a 14-room suite on the top ... supplemented by a variety of community activities, including weekly luncheons
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what ... , uncensored posts reveal a lot about MIT students, academics, and life at MIT
• FAQ / First-year application

  When are decisions announced?

  determined. Applicants will receive the email about a week prior to the release ... the release of admissions decisions, however, you may receive a package
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  The MIT Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) at MIT was founded to address fundamental questions about climate processes with a ... predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does the MIT admissions process work?

  After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel as though your application has entered a black hole. So what really happens between when you ... the details can add a lot of stress to the waiting period, so we
• FAQ / First-year application

  May high school juniors apply?

  MIT doesn't have any age requirements or limits. Each year we receive a small number of applications from young students who have outgrown their high school curriculum and feel ready for college. We have a lot of
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  I’m sitting in the quiet car of a Northeast Regional Amtrak train, writing a blog post for the first time in almost four years. Since I started ... round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025