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• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  office, where it will be available for a second read before going to the ... down to read my applications, one at a time. I start reading the ... this on the Part 1. Where are you from -- a big city? a rural farming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  factor" . The weight assigned to each feature depends on how much it ... There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper tomorrow) on a bit of Media Lab research called the Jerk-O-Meter (?!), which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  . Chris Peterson bravely volunteered to take on all of the remaining pies ... . We had a lot of cleanup to do... The geese on Killian helped! For ... Even though MIT decisions are released on the same day every single

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  cultures should happen on the day I was getting ready to leave one for the ... , "The Man With The Screaming Brain," and what better place to premiere it ... starring in "The Man With The Screaming Brain," he also found time to write

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... about this course, just the level of independence, the extent to which you were on your own. But where you really needed help- mainly the theory

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  , doing the Vanna White move to point out my hometown on the map. Because ... kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on ... actually pays off. In today's Doonesbury column, Alex comments on the Stata

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  the person sitting next to you on the bus. We’re strong and beautiful ... over you, and all you can do is pass the ball. It’s hard to see past the ... psets, more emails to catch up on, more laundry to do (a very real problem

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  to the House Committee on the Judiciary Telecom and Antitrust Task ... people using vehicles that have the technical ability to drive on highways ... on infrastructural power. Instead, it gives the FCC power to regulate

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad ... traveled to Europe from the US by steamship Times in running events were ... . Where do you think George got the money to buy the team? Well, Henry used

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  I'll probably never have the opportunity to visit. For the counselors ... collegial idea-sharing, I've returned with some thoughts on how to improve our ... #1: improving the international student information on the MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  big, in fact, that the following email was sent out to the MIT community ... employee requests, and due to the historic nature of this presidential inauguration, on Tuesday, January 20, cable viewingof the inaugural swearing

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  enough experience to work as second riders.) After a lot of exploring the ... 's still just a requirement. On the other hand, I got to pick whatever I ... ? =P So Momchil, here are my thoughts, short sweet, and to the point

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  great about being a Bomber. Being able to feel at home anywhere on the ... with the people on my floor, I feel equipped to tackle my next 3rd years ... uninformed, this means that I 1) live on the third floor of the Burton side of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day with love

  

  welcome on the mit blogs. to distract and enliven you, the students here ... music and a breeze of spring from the courtyard. i’m talking to a ... actually, whatever the header on decisions.mit.edu displays tomorrow, you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  advice on the Internet and ended up bricking it, and then had to go to MIT ... trying to submit the attendance form on my last few percentage points of ... most developers use. To the point that on my old ThinkPad, I had

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row next to Ceri, spill my coffee on my notes and myself, and copy over the ... Hayden to grade problem sets. On the way there I run into Geronimo M. ‘16

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player. How to cheer very loudly on the sidelines. I remember the only time I ... began understanding the game more and more. But I still needed to work on

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  , because it lets me refer back to pages for notes I took on the same subject ... to mention it shows up better on the page and doesn't fade. My pen of ... it out first to get the rough shape and dimensions down and also have a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  the lobby on the first floor. The lobby is open to the public during the ... problem sets and projects before they get to the students. That second chunk ... week we move on to standing). The focus of the class is on leaving stress

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  year, the San Jose meeting is likely to be the second or third largest ... looking to hire MIT students. Getting stuck in traffic on the 101 Freeway ... to catch up on questions and other business here in the blog over the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006