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• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? We're still processing many, many documents. Don't worry, be thankful.

  

  have a special envelope opening machine that is pretty awesome; non ... system, one at a time, by the great records office team. Thanks Diane, Noah ... admissions folder. We have 10,000+ applications in a small space, so the filing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  it all over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection ... regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little ... send in a whole new version of my application, or all new essays? No. You

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Excitement I'll take things that cause it for 800.

  

  watching 230-lb guys (who can also throw a ball at 99 mph) Irish step dancing in their underwear. Who isn't a fan of that? Seeing as I fall into ... I was using to put off doing my own problem sets) and do a little

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  it rhymes), because while MIT does have a communal love of gargantuan ... . It's a good deal, right? They give everyone quite a show (how else ... every commuter for several miles! It was a lovely start to the day. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  Cluster to: Still going. I just had a DATA breakthrough. I want to hug

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  for details. ;-) I was really hungry. Such is a day in the life of a ... the weekend for me and I will be running around the dorm like a maniac ... don't have a chance to read this anyway, but just in case- stop by and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a ... Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve ... finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. The only prize for the winning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  More For Deferred Students FAQ and advice.

  

  over for me? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data ... time we mail regular action decisions in mid-March. Should I send in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Brought Something? Um, no. No, we didn't.

  

  There was snow? I kid, I kid. I stayed up for most of the night with Colin '10, Nina '08, and Timur '10 waiting for it to snow. A couple of hours after I left them to go back to my room, snow it did. It wasn't much

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Looking ahead to IAP My favorite MIT event...period.

  

  you how much I love mystery hunt, a few old blog entries: Mystery Hunt 1

  • by Bryan
  • November 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  Fibonacci Challenge!! The Fibonacci Challenge begins with a $10 gift senior ... President Martin Tang GM '72 pledges to donate a generous sum of up to $25 ... inflation here. I voted for tshirt design B, with a simple athletic jersey

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  The UA Committee on Orientation has come out with a report on ... you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA ... . :) A lot of what is in the report is based on the data we collected

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  RA Blogger Applications Due Wednesday 9/6 At Noon Extended deadline...

  

  , so we may be off by a few days. -B

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18 ... , there's nothing like coming home to a pot of boiling beef stew and this ... friend Shana. I also woke up at 5 AM and watched a tape of Celebrity Duets

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  is true about you. 01. I have a cell phone. 02. I am addicted to diet ... 't have. 13. I'll be a kid forever. 14. I've seen the Backstreet Boys 2 ... . -BJ) 17. I wish I had more friends. 18. I have more than a couple

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  major in a field that is not innately techical, such as Comparative Media ... , you don't apply to a specific department, but rather to MIT as a whole. And when we admit a student, we admit that student to all of MIT, and at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you want to hear about?

  

  I would like to post more entries this summer, but this is an MIT blog and I'm in Switzerland. I could ramble philosophically about MIT life - I've certainly done it before - but a lot of my big rambles have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Graduation Webcast You can watch MIT's Commencement live and online.

  

  Webcast here The webcast begins at 8:20 am Eastern Daylight Time with a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 play by play It slices and it dices.

  

  the cool cars tomorrow. Did you know that a 10000 word paper is really

  • by Bryan
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cross-Cultural Conference

  

  I'm going on a cross-cultural conference/retreat tomorrow. 2006 is the first year they're holding this event, so I really have no idea what to expect, but here are some of the topics they are planning on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006