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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  do the work we do. And for all the fun we try to have on the blogs, we ... members of the Class of 2018. I'll be closing comments on this post to ... to welcome them to campus to join the 4,503 outstanding undergraduates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all ... your questions for the last 9 months as MITAdmin, but I am grateful to ... to colleges. Obviously, if you're reading this blog, MIT is on your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  a sports car because I'd jump to the end of a problem instead of being ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... level of education on a footing equal to my new classmates by simple

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  to be traders on Wall Street. I think the class of 2012 t-shirts say it ... brought to you by, well, Harvard. Two days ago I was chatting on the phone ... sight to my father on the other end of the phone: "Wait, there

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  -viral on Facebook last semester. The caption was: "Death came to personally ... and longer as the semester goes on, and I don't expect to finish everything on it. Still, it makes me look past the psets/tests to come and look

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  . I'll be closing comments on this post to focus the conversations ... using the same username and password that you use to log into your My ... to welcome them to campus, where they will join the similarly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  greatly helped. Actually, Lee was on his way to Harrisburg, which, as the ... happened to be reading the article about the Battle of Gettysburg, which was ... of commercial failures of the 20th century which, in addition to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  BREAKING NEWS! Find out about your life of pi

  

  up on the banks of the Charles River. It seems that famed tiger, Richard Parker, has been trying to reconnect with his old friend, Pi Patel ... Mar 7, 2013 Yesterday, researchers from the MIT - Woods Hole

  • by Richard Parker
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year Everyone! See you in 2006.

  

  2006! :-) B. P.S. A big thanks to Timur for the Santa Banners on Matt ... I'm outa here until Monday, January 2 and I won't be able to respond to email or blog comments until that time, so I just wanted to wish you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  rest of the students by allowing them to build great labs and dorms and ... privilege for the advantaged.” For you to receive legacy preference, it means ... advantages of learning, who had the means to go to college in an era before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  ’t end here. As snow began to actually build up on the sidewalk, I went to ... consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the film Meet the Parents, geniuses choose the color green. In addition to ... why this varsity lacrosse player is so calm. He tried to reserve the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  solar astrophysicist at Harvard. The AAS has a whole website on how to ... Representative Katherine Clark. Now, I'm normally very happy to pick up the phone ... (possibly caffeine-boosted) confidence resolved to finally make the call. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... awkward situation. While it didn’t want to appear indifferent in the face of the atrocities that were occurring – atrocities to which

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  't even think to think about. things like the one class i took on a whim ... Today is May 1, the conventional deadline for admitted students to ... from the archives related to this decision, the one you're nominally in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  Wild I also went on a rock climbing trip with the MIT Outdoors Club to ... MITERS alumni have gone on to do some cool things related to the advancing ... out" but that's a tough philosophy to motivate yourself on. As astute

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  research lab on the planet. And I can return, at the end, to the job which I ... This Friday, August 10th, will mark three years to the day since I ... buildings east to the Media Lab, where I will spend a year as a graduate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to Do While Waiting for Decisions Like elevator music, except without the awkwardness of standing next to a stranger whose priorities…

  

  A couple weeks ago someone asked what I did to pass the time while I ... can get it off your mind completely; after all, you're on the MIT ... . Learn to cook a new dish. (Like those spam recipes you get in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  collection of black and white shapes. on the other hand, to me, it appears ... on three black circles. in particular, the triangle can look even ... it is difficult to return to the previous sensation, of seeing the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  on. Right: Mari and Gisele watch the serenade. Also related to ... finest memories of walking to class in the morning from my dorm were on ... ? Check. And a serenade? Check! Thanks to our secret admirers, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006