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• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  It's that time of year again. I have a love-hate relationship with ... community. (This last one is a bad idea - with such a low admit rate, it ... . It's a vicious cycle. Even when I'm hanging out with my kids, I

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Leadership & Double Dare 11 pictures of the leadership conference, and 16 pictures of the Double Dare sex challenge

  

  lunch in a banquet hall in the Hotel@MIT (Note, this is a link to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  ...I probably slept instead. I'm not much of a baker, anyway. There was plenty of ... freshman dinner... We had to cook for about 30 people, so we started with a ... mixed, it was time to bake it. Hence the name "baked ziti." I grabbed a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can you patch me through to the blimp? "Can you patch me through to the blimp?"

  

  calling our local Fox channel. I really wanted a live person to answer the ... ?" Unfortunately, I had no such luck and ended up leaving a message on an answering

  • by Bryan
  • October 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 2 Questions Omnibus is the place to come for "official" answers!

  

  driven/flown a long way to come to a meeting, I hope it was worth the long ... telling you aboutThe MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space ResearchA ... ticket' for MIT admissions. With regard to KVPY, it certainly has a lower

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzle: Are we going to win? another puzzle to stimulate your mind

  

  this weekend, so I probably won't get a chance to post the solution until ... ? "Here is my schedule. I just can't seem to get the times right. I need a

  • by Bryan
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  lottery will run June 1-17. As a historical note, I helped to secure the ... important to you in a living environment? Where are you thinking of living

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  Happy May 2nd! With the final responses in the mail by today, it will be a little while until all the dust settles and we can tell you more ... attention to them. Short entry today, since I must run to a College Fair

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Real Life Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party.…

  

  For those of you who will be attending CPW, Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party. Here's the ... , 4/9, @ 8:15PM (between the a cappella show and the parties). It

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  long). Sometimes quiet is good. A lot of the snow melted this past ... spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create a silly thread. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you won't notice any change to your MyMIT account until we're confident that everyone has had a chance to receive his/her decision via mail (or telephone

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  Vampire Slayer), after spending a wonderful long weekend in Boston with them ... the wait was an hour and a half, so we headed down to Cafe of India ... that Ocean Spray is a grower-owned cooperative based in Massachusetts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Biological Engineering major

  

  From Wednesday's faculty meeting... Motion for a Bachelor of Science (S.B.) in Biological Engineering Moved, that the Faculty approves the ... . The Faculty recommends to the Corporation the designation of a new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  camer-AHHHHH! redux

  

  before heading off for greener pastures, did have a nice photo and blog entry the other day, which I won't steal outright but will link to: a post

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2004
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What is the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  Our MIT QuestBridge Supplement is a way for us to gather some additional information on our QuestBridge applicants. For QuestBridge Finalists ... Bridge Supplement. If you are a QuestBridge Finalist that did not rank MIT, you can
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Koch Institute?

  The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Cancer Center, is a state-of-the-art cancer research facility as well as the hub of cancer research on the MIT campus
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does the Office of the First Year do?

  The Office of the First Year supports a number of programs that enrich and support undergraduate education at MIT, and serves as your first year headquarters as well as a resource during your undergraduate years
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  groups, and the first year is graded on a pass/no record system. While your peer network is a great source for support, MIT students can speak with
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT recruit athletes?

  undergraduates play at least one varsity sport. If you're a prospective student ... your sport by completing a recruitment form. Depending on your potential
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did MIT invent hacking?

  creativity, cleverness, and difficulty of execution. A 1958 prank in which the ... American Heritage Dictionary and is included as a unit of measure in Google