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• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  Midyear Report: This online form is required for all applicants, including ... as needed. The Midyear Report also includes an opportunity for you to ... application. Using the Midyear Report for such updates is preferred over mailed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three ... -bars Of soap can last me for five semesters But I say, that's the magic of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’M BACK!!! This, kids, is why you should store your passwords somewhere safe, just in case Firefox…

  

  finished blogs too for that matter). So I started the arduous task of trying ... here is a puppy for your trouble: If you just skipped directly to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 9, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  We’re Linux! "Aha, Linux beats paper!"

  

  . Maybe I'm a little crazy, but isn't that just too cute for words? :) The ... entry, I'd really appreciate it if you took a moment to vote for it online

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of wind chill that eats Jack London novels for breakfast. 10:00 AM: Toast ... writing my undergraduate research (UROP) proposal*. It's like yoga for the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  . I'd been putting off this day for weeks. But it could be put off no ... on Tuesday Night Yesterday I finished two 11-page essays for the same class. Rhetoric is not a HASS I recommend for the particularly faint of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  As I type this it is 3:28 AM. I have to be awake for work at 4:45 AM. At 4:45 AM I will have been awake for 24 hours. This means that I could ... time for BATMAN! I was supposed to get there at 10 but was about five

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  I have nothing but analysis left to do for the last Junior Lab experiment for the rest of the week. I went to the gym today, I'll probably go on thursday, too. Yeah, life isn't so bad. Turns out I'm not nearly as

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  I was just reading Wired Magazine online and came across this. Specifically, let's look at 1998. 1998 Disney has bought MIT for $6.9 billion ... that The Walt Disney Company had purchased MIT for $6.9 billion. More

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  research MIT is so well known for is still advancing at full throttle, across ... level there was never any need for me to see Professor Langer anyway ... Institute Professors go), I decided to wait for the right time to strike

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  This OFFICIAL MIT blog is probably not designed for late-night delirious whims of posting. Oh well. So, it's late (3:00 AM) and I just ... Part II, 4) d?" Me: "No, solving for k was impossible, not even

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Harvard-MIT Student Debate on Pakistan this Friday

  

  , and Saad Zaheer and myself from MIT. We'll each speak for ten minutes, with the remaining 50 minutes reserved for questions, answers, and debate

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  hopefully you're up for it. As you may or may not already know, it's kind of ... ! For hundreds of wide-eyed freshmen who have never seen significant amounts of snow, snow means fun! For all of the upper-classmen who see snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  for this lab: "You just graduated from MIT and are traveling around Europe for the summer before going to grad school. You start talking to a ... building a robot for a robot-wars type of competition, and have been having

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  flags for Freshmen, Add date deadline, and the end of the first wave of ... April/May and none of what I’m doing right now counts? Well, for ... Cambridge, you get a supervisor for every class. You usually share this person

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  I'm often asked about MIT students going off to law school. For some ... , one is a Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, another handles ... an attorney for McGuireWoods, LLP. And I have two more friends entering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  There are always many questions about our testing requirements. For those of you applying this year and for whom English is your primary ... do not have a preference. You should take the tests for which you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  ;*#!$ with your head. Anyway, I don't really have time for a whole entry, but ... so strongly of this that I had to buy it for him. (Seriously, Five ... image below speaks for itself. So, what do you think? Could I get money

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MITHenge Blinded by the light.

  

  years ago and historians still do not know whether it was built for ... occurs semiannually at MIT. For the past four special days, the sunset was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Those of you who are savvy surfers of this site will note that our page on "The Match" has displayed the dreaded "coming soon" message for the better part of the fall. I apologize for this, and thanks to all of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 5, 2007