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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist ... additional students from the waitlist this year. The decision not to admit any ... appreciate your having been able to wait with us into the early summer. This

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  even told it at a Harvard party that we went to, with an audience of ... Could Lie Tangent To Your Curves!" with 42,000 members, everybody loves a ... ...here's one she loves to tell (copied from an article in the American

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  He Zigs, He Zags MIT's new video podcast.

  

  podcast? What kinds of stories and features would you want to see? ... featuring stories that capture and communicate the richness and diversity of ... the cellphone ringtone competition and IAP. It's fun to watch Zig

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  big screen in our floor lounge. Anyway, thanks to the apparent lack of finals in the department of urban studies and planning, she's exploring new ... , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MITAdmissions.org: Now 100% More Clickable also, report any other bugs you have here

  

  injecting visibility:hidden to a div at the top of the page. It's been corrected and you should be able to click on things now, like blog posts and ... able to click on them. With that said - if there are any other bugs that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 21, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  ? :) --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- EDIT. I've received some feedback about people related to some of the ... ! Please check out the picture of dinner below and the links, and I hope to ... Activities Period, Period of Independence and Activity-Doing! I've lived here

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  both, on a 6-foot tall LED display, thanks to three bored MIT students. Burton-Conner Tetris Battle (Burton Conner is the MIT dorm that is home to ... -Conner Tetris Battle is the creation of two Course 6 juniors, Russell Cohen '13

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A few quick answers The skinny.

  

  international applications, in parallel to the selection of domestic applicants ... Selection has been busy enough that I haven't had time to do a full Questions Omnibus, I do have enough time to steal an idea from Ben and quickly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Everybody’s Reading Applications!

  

  It's definitely the busiest time of the year for application reading ... entries recently to keep folks entertained and informed). While I was busily ... several tables over from me also seemed to be reading applications. As it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What is the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  Our MIT QuestBridge Supplement is a way for us to gather some ... of the MIT first-year application. QuestBridge Finalists that ranked MIT will be contacted directly about how to access the MIT Quest
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  first name of disputed etymology, like most Roman first names, but thought perhaps to come from the verb alo, to feed, nourish, and develop. This is ... novel hobby, in certain circles, to have begun a sourdough starter during

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  till freshman year of high school, uses coconut oil (ayy, Parachute) to ... This past summer, Hasan Minhaj FINALLY made his way to my hometown on his homecoming tour. Keep in mind, this is a person I’ve been wanting to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day and many many more here ... to shift and manipulate our perceptions of time, space and energy ... fact. I hope you can find the best environment to await and process the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  pairs of earrings at the same time. Never again would I have to choose ... strips and loops of metal through my ears? And I said that sounded kind of ... little more training than a stapler) to put two new holes in my ears. A few

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  school it used to take us two weeks of seven-hour band camp days just to ... consisted of running onto the field, catching our breath to humorous effect ... don't hold each other to very high standards of playing. 9. Apparently

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host ... saving time didn't help me leave the office before dark. Most of you should

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  introduction to MIT level classes. For those of us whose first time on a college ... third freshman blogger, class of '15, and I thought I would take a second to introduce myself. And because I'm bad at narrating my life, we'll go

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  of the bracket and unanimously lost to it. Sorry, Julie Andrews fans ... whole do-mi-mi, mi-so-so business starts to lose a little of its charm ... and she won't admit unrepentant thieves to MIT. So, anyway, we wanted

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is ... some face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  still am - I just got out of my 8.02 final, and I have 5.12 tomorrow.), I decided that upon my return, I'd treat you to my collection of 18.03 quotes ... Hampshire suspects Vermont of sneaking across the border and attempting to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007