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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  taking a crash course in conversational German in preparation for a trip I ... 't studied for? Femto-cool. You could even apply it to those tricky end ... to indicate your level of understanding. For example, I'd say I have a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  registration page comes offline. Which reminds me… Have you registered for CPW ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life-changing event I wished I’d registered for but missed the deadline because I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Are YOU Up To This Summer? click me! click me!

  

  with MIT (year, or year of application for potentials) anything ... your picture sizes reasonable! (so it doesn't take forever for me to load ... : There is a physical prize for the picture I deem the best. The actual

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  Blogging, for me, has never been about immediacy. Life as it happens ... for dessert after you've poured it into a mold and refrigerated it for 4 ... blogging in real-time for ten minutes: 10:23 pm: I cough for approximately

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  heat into heating for surrounding buildings. Yay! Where was I? Oh, spring vacation. I used to go home for spring break, but since I don ... write a post about my awesome room in East Campus for you. :) Happy

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  ENGLAND IS JUST A TEASE FOR WHATS COMING TONIGHT. SIX TO 12 INCHES IS FORECAST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE WITH 5 TO 10 INCHES IN THE ... OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS NEAR OR

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard ... deviations below average. After that moment it was just a constant struggle for life. That struggle for life culminated on Wednesday last week with a 3

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  weekend before finals. There's other days, however, for which you would ... :30 AM I was sort of fascinated by the sun. Tip for the Successful and ... important piece of information that you will need to memorize for any test. I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  blogged for AN ENTIRE MONTH. tsk tsk. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. Truth is, I ... memorization randomly in between) Me : MIT :: Linguini : cookingFor all you ... the vision of iHouse and the events that we have planned for the coming

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  posting with an artist at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, who was interested in working on an floating sculpture by Marta Pan for an exhibition ... Philbrick, from my small apartment in LA and set up a time for a meet and

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  efficiently. Power Electronics is, for better or for worse, about as time ... lab -- how exciting! I've also been working on assignments for my other

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hello, Layover I'm stuck in an airport. Ask me things.

  

  . I know this because I have been sitting beneath said scale model for ... for a small instead of a tall? SMALL IS A RELATIVE TERM, mmmk?) Let this possibly-doomed-from-the-start experiment begin. Edit: For '11

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  think that it's the most beautiful thing on earth. The reason for this is ... colleges, like Harvard and CalTech, strive for uniform and regal architecture ... , MIT has its fair share of boring buildings as well. Take, for example

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  any to do so. The numbers for this year look remarkably like they did ... admission is tough; with a 6% admit rate, it's especially true for transfer ... and facilitating things for the transfer admissions committee. Congrats

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  threat and are confused by the need for a chainsaw in a box. They will be ... chainsaw and head for the small dome, we'll fend them off and wait for rescue

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  looked around for prefrosh. None. We headed towards Dunkin' Donuts for some ... Snively?" So much for pretending to be a prefrosh. It turns out that the ... we grabbed our hash browns and coffee we headed outside to wait for

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  's battery had completely drained. I wait 20 minutes for the shower, and then ... Cambridge, to meet some friends for breakfast...only to run into them walking ... classic what-classes-am-I-taking-this-term post. I'm signed up for 66 units

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  is at an absolute standstill. We had an event tonight for the American Medical Students Association, and it took 2 ½ hours for the food to arrive ... some pictures from this evening: I'm ready for the snow...

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

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  probably an easy decision for you (at least it was for me.) Hopefully you ... , business), get a “real” job, take a year off to figure things out, work for a non-profit organization (Teach for America, Peace Corps), work in a lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  're available; this is mostly for the Regular Action selection committee ... . Decision day: We have not yet announced a date for early action decisions. We will make an announcement later in December; watch the blogs for more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007