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• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  This is your reminder that your reason for choosing a college doesn ... identify with. No one at U recognized the Homestuck jacket that I wore throughout the entire weekend I was there, yet two people pointed it out the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  - it is for a class) had been moved to the East Campus courtyard ... No. Really. Finals week starts tomorrow, and my 8.01 final is in ten ... ! Woo hoo! With that said, here are a few of the things I've seen while

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  Gruber is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992.  He is also the Director of the ... is a Research Associate.  He is a co-editor of the Journal of Public

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  EA Blogger Application Decisions The results are in.

  

  I just want to say on behalf of the committee that we are truly impressed with all of the applications (and there are MANY). Your collective enthusiasm is a testament to the success of this project, and Admissions

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Highlights Highlights from the Hunt complete with the first puzzle we solved!

  

  -wiki-wiki-wiki-wiki-forever fresh" Brian: "The answer is shynonymush." Chandra: "I'm reading photon jokes..." Brian: "The answer is SPEED OF LIGHT. Can I spell that? S ... Soon I'll be posting some photos and such from the hunt, but for now

  • by Bryan
  • January 15, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... working on something that you think is awesome. You and the professor will ... believe that you should learn from the very best the moment you set foot on
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  University professor who just won the John Bates Clark medal, which is “awarded ... . Last night: The Relay for Life “is a fun-filled overnight event designed ... the Hokies. Looking back, Campus Preview Weekend was awesome and I was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  painting is by Thomas Gainsborough, and the description written next to it ... was apparently that the poor shepherd boy is separated both physically ... off the internet. Today was one of those instances. And by today I mean

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  News bites from the Institvte A taste of what's happening around campus.

  

  Break. Clearly, three days away from the Institvte is too much for me, and ... mind is on the eighth dimension MIT Mathematics Professor David Vogan and ... ://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2007/03/26/his_mind_is_on_the_eighth_dimension/ 3/23/07: MIT Wants To

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  Hi everyone, The short version is this: please give anything you can ... that may never happen. My heart is broken for Boston and the victims of this horrifying tragedy. This post is about two particular victims - the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  if there is a party near you! Here is a little taste of some of the ... you haven’t done so already), early spring is an exciting time for the MIT community. Newly admitted students have received their

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  TechTV. One of the things I like about the press conference is that it ... reading this know which classroom this is?). I love that the chalkboard isn ... winning the Nobel Prize is that his thesis advisor when he was an MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  - Dread…knowing that January is the coldest month of the year, with an ... River is only a few feet away from most of the dorms, and once you ... The acronym “IAP” usually evokes several feelings, including

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  ambitious and inspirational project is headed up by Nicholas Negroponte of the ... great people to chose from. To answer an FAQ, our goal is to release ... . We will also send out decisions via postal mail around the same time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  ,000 applications. The mean of all guesses was 12,323 (not bad!) and the median was 12 ... Today, MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, published a story with our ... last year's 11,373 applications. So, the results of the guessing game

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  change if you've been admitted; otherwise it will stay the same. The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year. Also, the ... A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman ... , and triples, and the Annex is a fairly recent addition to Mc ... The following entry was written by the very cool and talented Minh

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  [see also: Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory] Last night, after a long Saturday of working to select the class, I hopped on the SafeRide shuttle to attend the Alpha Chi Omega (usually abbreviated as AXO, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  been describing the main character’s [annotation note="This book is about ... morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain ... characters, brushed up on Japanese geography, and drilled myself on the grammar

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  why this varsity lacrosse player is so calm. He tried to reserve the ... everyone here is so chill while studying. (Wow, gotta love the vintage Sam ... visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004