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• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  days (NOT!), two of my suitemates Molly and Evie sent out a floor email about starting a team for getfit@mit, a 12-week fitness challenge for the ... , getfit@mit encourages MIT to exercise regularly, dangling a grand prize and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week It's the final countdown.

  

  , understandably, disappeared for a little while) are doing (updates all are from ... -mates' alarms rang...It all felt like a movie-moment: everyone preparing for war;dorm row was like a streaming army...just missing an intense soundtrack

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  the Student Center (a building otherwise know as W20). It feels odd for me to do the session there since I ate quite a few meals in that same room as a student, especially on weekends when the Baker dining hall was

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  I fly a lot. Fact: aside from April and July, I’ve flown every month ... . From Fact 3, I can tell you that SFO has pretty great food, IAD has a ... two days prior, when I flew back from San Francisco to Boston for just a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Meetings… I hope you'll attend the event near you.

  

  know about the Institute. It's also a great way to meet other admitted ... . Starting this week there will be 62 events held around the world. A full list

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow snow snow. I'm wearing bright colors so if I get caught in a snow drift someone will…

  

  for getting school off were really high- and even WE would have had a ... DELAYED- BC, the Harv BUSINESS AS USH: MIT fml. View from my window onto a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  . MyMIT Application Tracking This is a good time for you to check up on ... Transcript, Evaluation A, Evaluation B, Testing Requirements (we should have ... wait a while longer before having it evaluated to give you time to send

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  As I mentioned in my last entry, Change.org is running a competition ... to Round 2, and the idea to "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia ... a message, loud and clear, that we don't need to rely on dishonest

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Update The Waitlist Committee has finalized decisions and has emailed all waitlisted applicants.

  

  We are writing with a quick followup to Matt's recent entry. The Waitlist Committee has finalized decisions and is currently emailing all waitlisted applicants. A brief overview: Of the 629 students currently on the

  • by Decisions
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  . @ AXO Lip Sync this year: (I dunno, this was like a week and a half ago) I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  even better from here. Really, words fail me. I almost feel like a pre ... Brooklyn named Abi (if you're reading this, hi Abi!). After a quick stop at ... it matters. Abi then ran off to the Whitehead Institute to take a tour

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections Some thoughts on the admissions process, both to those who were admitted and those who…

  

  I know that it's been a long year, and now that you've had a week to ... high school every day and had a job all through my high school years. Of ... completely foreign to me. I have never assisted at a calving, had my artwork

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  , I know that's a lot of chemistry and math talk right there. Yes, that ... , I imagine this will be a welcome change. Others...may be a little more ... I've been here nearly a semester and a half now, and I feel that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  Hi folks, Jess sent me an email a few days ago making fun of me for ... will be mailed via postal mail a few days later, most likely on Monday ... for those who applied in Early Action and received a "final" action in

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  This OFFICIAL MIT blog is probably not designed for late-night delirious whims of posting. Oh well. So, it's late (3:00 AM) and I just finished most of a Diff Eq. PSET (I started at 10:45 PM, it's been a long day

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Harvard-MIT Student Debate on Pakistan this Friday

  

  Harvard and MIT have organized a panel discussion on Pakistan's current state and future prospects: Date: Friday, 2/8 Time: 6:00pm to 7:30pm Location: 4-270 There'll be four panelists, all of whom have a strong

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal ... admissions office for a million years, currently serving as the director of the ... right off, don't panic! A decision on your application will not be made if

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  Recently, I've been getting a lot of questions like, "Can I do my ... for anything you might mail in (like a fee waiver request or ... quite a common problem. We do ask you to write in your standardized test

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  felt a sense of accomplishment like never before, and I knew I was ready ... human genome, teaches Biology; a the beloved Don Sadoway teaching Chemistry. Take a look at this picture that MIT's student newspaper, The Tech

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Intermission Summer job: just kickin' it. And working at Pixar, too.

  

  Sometimes taking a little time to recharge is really all you need. I've been spending hours in used bookstores and swimming and taking deep ... you guys, though - watch for a pretty important entry coming up about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 7, 2007