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• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, all the way from Madrid, Spain, I bring you: a totally useless sneak peak of Orientation. This is what my desk looked like as I planned out BC's REX schedule. It's going

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Disaster Relief .

  

  speak with a flattened dialect, like this, I say. And I say I'll take them

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  early; providing us a mobile phone number we can reach you at during CPW ... enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  life. Going wayy back... (1988) - I was born on a leap year, but I guess ... -9-9-9." Went to sleep at 9:30 every night because staying up past 10:00 was a ... .01 (economics) pset. (ever want to know what a study room looks like at four in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  . So I did a lot of traveling and therefore didn't make much money. So no

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Match Our thoughts, and a request for current MIT students to weigh in.

  

  updated, and I think it's a good overview. I'm hoping, however, that current

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 5, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.

  

  i was going to write a post about Thanksgiving and Drop Date and not dropping 18.02, but it was boring. So I deleted it. Don't complain; I've spared you the trouble of reading something you really wouldn't have wanted

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  , the Admissions Officers had a "mail opening party." In reality, it wasn't much of a party, but the title at least made the task of opening envelopes seem more fun. We are now receiving a deluge of mail each day

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

  MyMIT Status Deadline to schedule interview for EA applicants extended.

  

  As you've likely noticed by now, the MyMIT site has been down since yesterday due to a hardware issue - we apologize for any inconvenience. The tech gurus have been working around the clock to fix it, but they're not

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  graduation. Luckily, the situation at MIT is much better -- I spent a few hours ... the men). Let's take a closer look at a few departments. Nationally ... being a woman in engineering here. I had female friends in all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton Hospital with a co-worker who ate some shellfish and puffed up nicely. (I won't tell you which co-worker unless he/she tells me I can. :-) But this was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  Two of my friends from UCLA are visiting, and we have had a busy first day. They both flew in early this morning, and we spent the whole day walking around the area in the glorious warmth and sunlight that

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tomorrow is MacVicar day! Tomorrow is MacVicar day. See poster presentations by MIT students who have made an impact…

  

  I got an email today about the MacVicar Day event this week that showcases student research in our labs here on campus and in the field worldwide. It should be…

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Meets The OC Be sure to watch the April 6 episode!

  

  Oh, so good. Joanne witnessed the convergence of two of her loves a few days back, and now it's my turn. Just received email from my friend who works in MIT's Publishing Services Bureau: Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 To

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  VSEPR Google News is the best.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? A jurassic beaver once ruled the riverbank. I've had an extraordinarily busy (and short!) week that I will describe to you all in detail soon enough; for now you can check out the awesome article above which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Television MIT on TV.

  

  students have done cool stuff on the Discovery Channel. A few years ago, my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions Beginning To Arrive How are you guys doing?

  

  Hi everyone, It's been one of those weeks here in the office - I can't seem to get anything done. I'm working on the big Q&A thread that I've been promising you for weeks. I also owe you my post-EA thoughts. Both

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  4 8 15 16 23 42 If you already know what those numbers mean, this entry is for you.

  

  So I'm a Lost fanatic. Long-time readers know that Alias and The OC are my two favorite shows, but Lost is positioning itself to take the lead. I had lunch with Axiak last week and gave him the numbers. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you who were admitted, CONGRATS. You completely deserve it and you should be very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  To tell the truth

  

  application process, and financial aid. And in order to have a good amount of time for audience Q&A (which really is the most fun part), I'm constantly trying to do a balancing act between telling the stories that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2004