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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  'll be reading the first round of Regular Action apps. I can't wait! Happy ... morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... year I had brought the potato cannon a few friends of mine and I had made

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  -worthy rendering of the E52-383 office cluster. In the first office is Professor ... . Schelling. The Nobel website has a nice summary of their work on "conflict and cooperation through the lens of game theory." Aumann actually is an MIT alum

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  For those of you wondering, I ended up working only until the first 2 ... thereby increase the efficiency of daily lives--like, for example, the ... you're in the middle of a problem set. Continuing in this vein (not the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little ... Union, Harvey Mudd, Olin College, RPI, and the University of Chicago. For ... the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the first year with the help of their first-year advisor. Our application asks students to list their "course of interest" only, and the choice
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s happening at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies?

  useful to the soldier. Army members of Team ISN also give guidance on soldier protection and survivability needs, and the relevancy of research ... , other first responders, and the civilian community at large.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  where Romeo and Juliet first meet which is really the highlight of how ... -screencaps If you think you’ve just stumbled into the wrong part of the ... ;dagger Juliet, the 1999 movie adaptation of the Shakespearean classic (or, as most

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in ... students? [answer at the end of the entry] Beginning Sunday until the end of ... should you expect? First, the admissions officer and the local Educational

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  . Beethoven wrote only one opera and it was called "Fidelio." 3. The first ... these things! One of the questions was "What is the more common name for ... portrait of my UROP as a young man, but I got so involved writing the stream-of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  At 3:08pm today, we completed the preparation of the decision mailing ... missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have ... inspirational here that would make the hurt of not being admitted go away

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started ... , pledging to spend the rest of their lives together. And the last time I ... people off of a registry. And saying the word 'registry'. What I really

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  year instead a prefrosh's: there's less of the aimless wandering, the ... of the sleep loss, the mingling with prefrosh, and the unreserved excitement for being here, at MIT, with some of the most incredible people in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  Trivia: Who was the first student blogger for MIT Admissions? And who is the most senior of the current student bloggers? [answer at the end of the entry] You may recall that last month we put out a call for new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  following week consists of an orgo exam, and the week after is dead week, and the week after is (ahhh) finals. - I finished my last bag of popcorn ... , especially considering the amount of walking, running, and sweating that was

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  all times in terms of the length of assignments and the first midterm ... in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around me on the quality of my life with full force. MIT is so vast and there

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  promise! Clearly, I'm from Texas :) And the first snow of the 2009 ... Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which ... midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Gregor, one of the two MIT undergraduate dorms open for those of us living on ... is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during ... wanted to do during the school year, without the weight of "oh why am I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Sneak Preview

  

  Coming soon: An entry on The Tech Nomads But first: 26.2 miles of awesomeness Interseting story: My mom was seated on the plane next to a couple with a newborn baby. They all (well, except the newborn) chatted about

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.

  

  " Competition!) One of the aspects of MIT culture I most enjoy is the Institute ... to make the world a better place. Another cornerstone of MIT culture ... the spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration, I'm doing something I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2009