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  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring, check out a previous entry). It was held at the Boston Public Library ... see from the pictures, it was a beautiful venue which I had never been

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend

  

  CPW IS ABOUT TO BEGIN and it's going to be AWESOME. It snowed today...but the snow is now safely out of the way and hopefully the MIT weather ... 'll try to get back to you ASAP! In the meantime...get pumped.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 6, 2006
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  investment. On average, UROPers spend eight hours in the lab per week and a lot ... on biology-related projects at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and a lab in the Health Sciences & Technology (HST) program. Xiang

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Public Art Projects An art piece that captures the essence of the title of my blog.

  

  This was today's surprise as I walked down the Infinite. I think the title of this art piece could be "Hitchhiking across the Infinite." What ... for one of the art classes, but I'm not sure.

  • by Bryan
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  ZBT Soiree A part with many desserts and friends... fortunately, I left before the karaoke part. (9…

  

  (See Bryan's entry for more pictures of and information about the ... . After dinner, I hopped on the Boston West SafeRide and went to Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) for their dessert soiree. I'm not usually the shortest person

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  my first all-nighter of the fall term. Well, I don't really believe in linear time anyway. Apparently, neither do the Aztecs. Wow, this is a really cool article. Then on midnight of the 12th day of the festival, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  I don't really like The Eagles' "Desperado," but it's sure been stuck in my head for the last few days. I wonder why. Last night I did some things and I thought I would relate them to you in the form of reviews. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  ), that I feel your pain on the application deal. I'm applying to graduate ... deal of my downtime at the lab today studying for the GRE, and it sucks ... factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class soon ... ..." Wait no longer! Here are this year's exciting numbers. The MIT ... admitted 1495 of those students, making this the most selective year ever in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York Times, New York Times

  

  Yesterday's New York Times had another article about the new SAT, and Marilee was quoted. Here are those paragraphs: The director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also raised

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist

  

  I'm currently out of the office, but back in Cambridge, it has been announced that unfortunately, for the third consecutive year, and despite all ... higher than we had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  Just got back from the inauguration of MIT's sixteenth president, Susan Hockfield. Both of the office cameras were checked out by others, so I've failed you in the photo department. But I'll try to describe the

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties

  

  Have any of you attended one of the Admitted Students Parties that our MIT alumni have thrown in various cities around the country (and around the world)? If so, how was it? I'd love to hear how it went. Also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there an MIT Flying Club?

  The MIT Flying Club, headquartered in AeroAstro, motivates ... -scale flying for the MIT community. Open to pilots and non-pilots, the club ... -ins to the MIT campus, organizes fly-outs to New England airports and
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is CSAIL?

  internet—CSAIL is all of those things. The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one of the world’s most important centers of information technology
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?

  MIT provides financial aid on the basis of financial need only. We ... , artistic, or anything else. However, we refer to the money given directly by the Institute as an MIT Scholarship, even though we offer it based
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  ="National Society of Black Engineers - An organization that works to support the professional development of people who identify with the black community"] NSBE ... learning about all the different ways that people are using AI in today

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  the "nerd culture" that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to ... does Pi Day look like at MIT? Do students eat pie? Do people recite the ... 't know about. So, I went around campus to get the scoop on how students and

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  care about the enjoyment/impact axis if you’re reading this, like you can ... a books-by-literary-merit list. Here’s how you should interpret the letters, and a list of all the books. S: will reread again and again

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025