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• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  see a number of mirrors all lined out on the grass. Last year, students ... to describe some of their work and how they get inspiration for what ... concert. Mythbusters on stage. Now, what you might not know is that the

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the ... following: instead of me posting a topic and you responding, let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP. Here are

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  'm much busier than I thought I'd be: behind on email, behind on blogging ... building a mini-Sukkah (MIT's is currently up on Kresge Oval, thanks to ... should be my largest meeting of the year. My best estimate is that we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  . Because of this, and because I don't think any of my friends will be on ... I'm not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on ... spring of my high school senior year, I decided that I was done with school

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid ... impassively toward night, the last hanging breaths of August condensed into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  It's May 1st. Most of your friends have decided where they are going ... well at MIT.     First of all, please   and let ... ; 1. Are there normal people there?/Are 'my kind of people' at MIT

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  As you know, we are hunkered down reviewing all of the MIT Regular ... 's Anatomy. SPOILER ALERT! This entry assumes that you are up to date on all three shows as of January 22nd. Proceed at your own risk... Battlestar

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  come to that conclusion on your own. As you know from some of my ... , passionate people. Go figure - I just described the vast majority of the ... how/why decisions of other admissions officers - it would be impossible

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I’m having a hard time completing the recommendation requirement?

  knowledgeable letter on your behalf. A few sentences at the top of a letter ... We require letters of recommendation for our application. We strongly ... compellingly on your behalf, whether or not they have taught you the most
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  Analysis of Algorithms) exam this past Thursday. Once it was over, my brain just kind of shut down and didn't do anything productive for the next 96 ... , post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  I don't think it's a good idea to be on 72 units, for the sake of ... lines of, "On behalf of the Admissions Committee, it is my pleasure to ... -to-shoulder with the sun, The world is waiting on me for change. I am never scared of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  're really in a state of shock at the loss of our leader. To make a long story short, Marilee Jones, our Dean of Admissions, misrepresented her credentials on her resume 28 years ago in 1979, when she applied for her first

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at ... and without chocolate on top. They fill the puffs with your choice of ... on our journey, one which would take us across Boston and involve the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  options can be hard on both sides. That can be emotional. To those of you ... This post is for those who are moving on from this blog today, May 1 ... admissions process, we chose you from the thousands upon thousands of super

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  stack of admit letters in my hands; it was sublime). I was on the team ... Today is mail day. I'll save my emotional post on this topic for a ... course of the day. I'll update this entry whenever there's something to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist ... This afternoon, we notified the 64 students remaining on the waitlist ... really great students on the waitlist who we wished we had room for. We

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  on Wednesday night. And it's not like any of those miserable all ... of the day and long into the night was spent on my set design project ... at all. On Friday and Saturday Sarah '09 and I played a lot of Zelda

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you relate them? Some of my favorite guesses? "MIT is obviously installing solar panels on the dome in order to conserve energy while the T

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  . This, I never picked up on, because throughout the last 1/3 of the class ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... concentration, sitting through an hour and a half of lecture without being

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008