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• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  ELEFANTES! Love you, Bryan Now back in the 90s, I used to have to rely on ... answer, so I resorted to sending her an email. I decided that I would ... would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Admissions Released Next Wednesday, 12/21

  

  I wanted to post a quick update for our transfer applicants. We will ... emailing all applicants with their decisions, so you should expect to hear ... the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend reading the profile

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said, "When we heard the best minds were on the case, we expected MIT, not the ... , too. The President has directed Energy Secretary Steven Chu to provide

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  I have nothing but analysis left to do for the last Junior Lab experiment for the rest of the week. I went to the gym today, I'll probably go on thursday, too. Yeah, life isn't so bad. Turns out I'm not nearly as

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Vacation A week of total relaxation didn't stop me from thinking about MIT constantly.

  

  . Here I am, preparing to do an info session for the people on the beach: I even made my wife do some recruiting: To make it seem as though ... utterly ridiculous entries for you all to enjoy: The LiveJournal Survey The

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m not swollen anymore!

  

  stitches out this afternoon -- *VERY GLAD* to be done! I'll be moving into a new room on my hall next week, and I'll try to take some pictures so you ... occupied for the balance of the summer. I have to say -- the weather in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  largest volume of mail you've ever seen. There is a lot of mail to be opened, sorted, entered into the database, filed, and reviewed. My advice to you is to please be patient as you watch the application tracking system on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I started a joke… ...that started the whole world crying.

  

  walked in to find this on the chalkboard: ... math teacher, Mr. Bob Cohen, who had a strange fondness for referring to ... find the roots." "So, similarilarily, we have to complete the square of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Biological Engineering major

  

  Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Engineering to be awarded on the ... proposal of the Biological Engineering Division to offer an S.B. program that will lead to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Koch Institute?

  research facility as well as the hub of cancer research on the MIT campus ... scientists, clinicians and others, to bring fresh perspectives and an interdisciplinary approach to advancing the fight against cancer. This multi
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  posted in response to my last entry about raising siblings to be friends. It's truly something that I'll keep and refer to in the coming years ... and I usually don't get home until after 1AM. Each day, there are four

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  , others I published elsewhere, and the rest I kept to myself, on napkins and ... campus from 10AM to 2AM most days. When I'm not on campus, I am asleep ... , and if I wanted to write, I would. If I wanted to spend an hour

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  to pop culture references, pop music and the like. If it wasn’t for ... around on my laptop and I came across a post on my facebook wall from one ... . Franco? The technical awards go to engineers and scientists that make most

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do I complete the visa section on the application?

  Only students who currently hold a visa complete this section of the application. The International Students Office assists all admitted students through the visa application process in May.
• FAQ / International applicants

  What is the Secondary School Report?

  entrance to universities in your home country. We understand that many grades ... schools do not calculate GPA, class rank, and other statistics, so your ... you submit your high school transcript with three years of grades and
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  I'm often asked about MIT students going off to law school. For some reason, people don't seem to realize that you can come to MIT, major in ... political science and economics), and then go to law school. Actually, surveys

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  Here at MITAdmissions we try to be transparent as possible about our ... contributed by MIT Institutional Research to the Common Data Set (i.e. what ... 've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  rocky, but I could always rely on it to be there for me. After long hours ... befallen us today. The favorite dining spot of hundreds of students on campus ... Center is no more. This past weekend, Subway closed abruptly due to issues

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  people on campus rely on. This really has the potential to revolutionize ... developed this as his master's thesis, and today released the system to the ... a patch to the source code, to generate a kernel module which, when

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  snowflakes on our tongues. except for daniel, because apparently he tried to do ... and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022