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• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little ... hosting. Some hosts are very hands-on, being excited to be with you the entire weekend. Others are more like guides: being willing to give lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to know." * Pursuant to legal mumbo jumbo, I am not employed by Dial ... ) Since this blog isn't going to be "substantial," here's a really cool ... to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  -than-the-usual amount of freedom this semester. It’ll be fun to reflect on how I thought ... exercising without the pressure of pushing myself to be better and better.  Dance. I kind of want to try out for Dance Troupe??!! I think DT would be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  Reports do not need to be submitted by January 3; they should be submitted ... admission to January 3. The freshman application can be submitted through My ... application materials, please be patient as you wait for it to appear on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• 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 incline. As a way to help with your tension headaches, I propose the ... the rules: Make sure your question is general enough to be of

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

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  relationship bureaucracy we're in? we had to be corporate with them [MIT ... went back and forth for a bit trying to decide whether our bebe should be ... 's vital and vestigial organs, I got to be lazier with my animations and just

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  A N T S Being off the meal plan has forced me to venture further into ... , trying to get my body to move in ways I never knew it could. The whole ... the way to a ballroom competition at Columbia University. Wish me luck

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  weekend. My parents and my [annotation note="She's now about to be a first ... that I was truly headed to college. Panic. Decide that the best way ... refrigerated because they're required to be washed with soap and hot water before

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  super cool to hear them read off the numbers one by one and get more and ... 'm very excited to get my own copy of this ring in April. It might just be a ... at Ring Premiere; then everyone scrambles to spend their life savings

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  videos on how to be really really evil in various fields, and all the ... Konundrum (during which a wrench was instructed to be thrown at my head) D3 ... came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... bring to this process and your talents can be considered with your other ... "undergraduate application materials" on the envelope. You do not need to be a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  Gorbunov, co-founder at Aikicrypt, a new way to encrypt cloud data. PhD in ... . There's clearly no one required "pathway" to be an entrepreneur as some of ... community. Today I'd like to take a look at Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spreading Santorum around MIT Or rather, just spreading awareness of Santorum.

  

  dissect the cover after all... I think he'd be incensed enough to find ... I don't want to make this blog too political--I will not use Turkey vs. Spam as a stepping stone to the presidency. Still, I must say, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  interspersed throughout this post will be pictures that have nothing to do with the entry but that add color. Oh, and they happen to be stolen from an entry on my personal blog. And they also happen to be t-shirts I just

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  of November, and you justify it to yourself any way you can. "It ... A thug A lumberjack.But it just wasn't meant to be, and as you shear ... tickling my lips as I talk!" "No more beard!" Then, so brief as to be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  ’t pretend, in spite of the last year, to not be excited about 2017. In fact, I ... replaced with the entire bee movie script” which will shortly be followed by ... the point: I’ve decided to drop out of MIT. I don’t need to be an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  . And finally: never, ever be ashamed to be excited by the things you love ... to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read ... Talent Development Institute, or TDI. TDI was supposed to be a camp for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  by the time I get to choose my major, I wouldn't be able to choose ... probably be under 16%, meaning that, unfortunately, we'll have to turn away 5 ... 're not. (This can be applied to all of the other crazy schools that also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do is to blog every day 'til eternity passes away, just to share them with ... to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Toy Design Update How couldn't you enjoy building toys?

  

  ME!" and give you a quick Toy Design update. I haven't talked about Toy Design in several months but that's not to say I haven't been heavily involved. In fact, I'd like to officially propose that MIT move this

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008