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  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  made cold salads, ordered cake and hung decorations. And at the end of a ... all the fun. In true MIT grandeur and style, the nearly empty lawn at 8 ... at the Prudential Building across the river all lit up with the words

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Newly Admitted Student Events… ...coming to your neighborhood.

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... and MIT President Susan Hockfield for a night of celebration at Red ... City (Portland) in at least 5 years and meet some fellow Oregonians

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts ... the circle of life producing an incredibly nerdy musical at math camp ... , although we have to be at least Facebook friends before that's socially

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  action needed to be taken by you. You are at no disadvantage of your ... another blog entry. At that time, if your application is still incomplete ... document. At this time, however, you should not send additional copies of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  Subway Express. (Boy) You were clearly all at sea As you wildly clutched at ... first met down at Spring Street And then upon my word. (Girl) I felt I ... at Harlem (Girl) At the Bronx I murmured yes, (Boy) We lost no time in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  activities for the past two weeks have been working during the day, working at ... tip: don’t get sick while at MIT. So when my friend Roxana '09 suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Want You! Write for us!

  

  fire, run around campus at odd hours of the night, watch NextACT, and ... for the MIT blogs about my experience at CPW" rules. > You have to ... send entries to snively [at] mit . edu ask-paul [at] mit . edu

  • by Snively '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT ... the more common questions: Is there a nanotechnology major at MIT? Not ... related. Can I get involved in nanotechnology at MIT? Absolutely! In

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  used to be really good at taking tests. I never had any kind of test anxiety or anything like that. But tests at MIT...well, they're hard. So ... became a tradition. Every equation sheet I've ever written for an exam at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  freshers from Gonville and Caius College (one of the 31 colleges at Cambridge ... stands at the end of the boat, drops this stick down to the river bottom ... be standing up at the end of the boat. My knees were shaking! Between

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  will lose your deposit at the other school, but it is a standard practice ... students we could take at this time, and which students to admit. I sat in ... is too early to know. In a week or two, we'll once again look at where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  Here is what I bought at Shaw's (the local grocery store) last night ... consumed at the Burton Conner Ice Cream Event today. Check your CPW booklet ... for serious, and I'd love to meet you guys. =) I'll also be at the Reg

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

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

  

  9:30am: I'm not blogging about admissions today, because at noon the ... Hunt is a weekend-long competition at MIT where people team up to solve ... year's hunt organizers -- Dan '03 (at right) and my old Baker House

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

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  think of nefarious nerds tapping away at Internet terminals, fueled by ... that hacking indeed originated at MIT, where computing and cleverness go ... Nickel Plate." Anybody at MIT can join right in, even freshmen, and get

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  conference at Princeton, I read two articles in today's New York Times which ... professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School) and Nick ... . Professors Xavier Gabaix of the Economics department at MIT and Augustin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  oatmeal ever at Small World Coffee, a sweet independent cafe that offers a ... climbing! Katherine is an avid climber and an employee at the wall, so we had ... now a freshman at Princeton and is hosting a show called The Freshman on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  ocean directly under the boat. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute ... what extent do you feel that the classes you took at MIT contributed to ... learned when I was at MIT was the way that MIT taught me how to learn. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  , you know (just kidding!)? Just like everything else at MIT, sororities ... sororities, five of which are at MIT." Sororities are involved in academic ... sorority life at MIT (http://web.mit.edu/panhel/www/index.htm). Want to test

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  took a week of going to bed at 8PM and getting up at 4AM to shock me back ... to be up to finish homework and go to class at 10AM seems to get me out ... refreshing. Although, when half the hall is getting up at 4PM, the point at

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  admissions bloggers at some other great schools have been blogging this same topic (patience with the mail) this week. Here's a sampling: Daniel at ... us at this time to check on the status of your application or to see if

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006