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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  . Anyway. Life at MIT is moving right along at its usual breakneck pace, but ... nostalgic and philosophical at the same time, and you're the lucky ones who ... because professors and advisors here aren't supportive - they are. But at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  many that at one point I had to transfer all of the pictures I had taken ... interested in then e-mail ALL THREE OF US at snively [at] mit [dot] edu -- ask-paul [at] mit [dot] edu -- bryanblogs [at] mit [dot] edu and we can work out

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  call. So the emo-high school senior Bryan was at home when the phone rang. My mom looked at the caller ID and said, "Oh look it's an out of state ... at all, and somehow the admissions gods allowed it to happen. Weeeeee

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  system at MyMIT may be wondering, where's my recommendation from Mr. Brown ... : The document arrives at MIT Mail Services (in Building WW15 -- Way West ... system, one at a time, by the great records office team. Thanks Diane, Noah

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

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  , homework can now be due late at night, or on weekends. For 8.01, there are 2 ... Mastering Physics assignment due last night at 8:10, and this was basically ... ...assume gravitational potential energy is zero at large distances. I don't know what this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  high-profile scholars at the Institute’s Center for International ... Visiting Research Fellow at the time), a group bombed the CIS. Since that ... February 2003 passed without much discussion at MIT. After the attacks were

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  that you may find useful. At least in the beginning, I'll focus on ... untraditional coursework at MIT - "Interactive Narrative" class, anthropology, Literature of Melville and Toni Morrison, Interactive Museum design at Harvard

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... community, I did research at a local university. But in spite of all of those ... would ever want me at their school? A year later, I still don't really

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  all of the dorms at MIT remain open for summer residents, my floor was closed down, so I decided that I wanted to experience living at East Campus ... , but at Burton-Conner it's pretty easy: you tell the Housemanager that

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  a beauty or fashion magazine. If you take a look at any issue (whether ... application at: http://www.glamour.com/images/news/2007/05/ttcw_app2008.pdf . If ... departments hard at work and really got a feel for how much effort goes into

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  to as Course 6 or EECS) is the most popular major at MIT with 700 ... later taught LEGO robotics to middle schoolers at RoboCamp. After ... designing satellite antennas and communication systems at Orbital Science

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  Sila queries: How good are the social departments at MIT? And, at the ... talk about science at MIT? I mean, obviously it IS the institute of ... my hands.) At this moment I'm sitting at my kitchen table feeling

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  spending hours at a time talking animatedly to myself.) We created an online ... recitation instructors know how many students had listened to (or at least ... there was at least one person listening to my recorded voice. More amazing

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  "Adventures in Logan Airport." First of all, my first name is Keri-Lee. At ... ’s all fine and good, Keri, but what does this have to do with anything at ... boarding pass yesterday. Seat 5D. A window. Nice. At least I’ll have a lovely

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  : Easing Stress of Getting In Looking at colleges with her daughter was often ... admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ms. Jones said the ... -authors Marilee Jones, admissions dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  program readily available at my high school. I didn't have any AMC scores to ... school that you can take on yourself; classes offered at local colleges or ... found at my high school - it put me in a place where I was utterly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  worries; at the beginning of summer, MIT will send you a booklet on all the ... fits you. (That's a pretty sweet thing that's unique to MIT - at the end ... then rank your choices based on that and what you've seen of them, at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  study at MIT, what must be it be like for all these freshmen who grew up ... building that you'll probably go into for a class at MIT is called by number ... Cambridge, you're better off consulting a map or getting laughed at by Central

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  usually use. So don't look at the rest of the entry if you're on a dialup ... first marathon of line-waiting occurred at the Uffizi Gallery in Italy. We ... really bad at I Spy. After my first turn, Ling spied with her little eye

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  wasn't true at your high school, but in all ten classes I took there was ... to look at the one-track mind I'd developed and wonder if it'd be ... resolved to take it one day at a time. And I know it's silly, but watching

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006