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• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  you for being engaged with MIT and our admissions process. This year ... : about jobs, about your ability to pay for college, and more generally about the economic, social, and environmental stability of the world. For

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Christmas Hug [UPDATE: New picture!!!] *squeeze*

  

  . There was Christmas music, a happy atmosphere, and there for all of it was ... and said "Look! Susan Hockfield! I'll totally hug her for a dollar." I ... sniped from across the street? I stood there, looking at her, waiting for

  • by Snively '11
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  fruitful one for me. To recap: Late May -> Early July: Back in Taiwan ... could chemically analyze blood for components/diseases), and us ... , temperature) and translating for doctors (yay Spanish!) These blog entries may

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend of mine approached me with an idea for a ... incoming freshmen and their parents are working on their insurance plans for college, and I agreed. For sake of privacy, though, we agreed that the entry

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in Texas and Arizona Learn about three great schools at once in the American Southwest.

  

  Brown & Yale Universities for meetings in Texas and Arizona. Details ... opportunity for high school sophomores and juniors (that is, rising juniors and ... , hopefully we'll be nearby in September or October. Look for the fall visit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  really great students on the waitlist who we wished we had room for. We ... admissions for this year and let the remaining waitlist students focus on their schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] For the final art blog of the school year, I ... -run art group that focuses on providing an open forum for artists and ... from MIT and Wellesley, as well as faculty from the Center for Advanced

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before ... (clothes, toiletries, super-secret gift for my parents and sisters) or my ... Keep pile, meanwhile, is destined for - surprise! - a box of some sort. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  analysis for the 3rd 8.14 lab (Zeeman effect in Hg). My oral presentation is friday for this lab, but with the 8.06 deadlines this week I'm not sure I ... derive the energy eigenvalues for a hydrogenic atom. Pretty kickass, right

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  For the record, during my CPW, it rained for a little and despite that, I still had a blast; so, regardless of weather, get ready for the most jam-packed days you'll have until you come for Orientation of course

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  account. For those of you who are unfamiliar with tumblr, it's a great site ... registered for CPW each upload 5 texts and/or photos over the course of the ... you used to register for your MyMIT account so I can verify it

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Hey Guess What Guys!” That's what!

  

  want to do is sit still and go online (at least it was for me) but if ... website for you to visit. http://whitehatdesign.com/chat/ This chatroom ... disabled (it happens). I'm rooting for you!

  • by Snively '11
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  just an intro, with future information to come. The main reason for this ... root for Team 9 (also known as Team Awesome). We're in it to win it! Our ... needed for the webcast. What you can't see in the picture is what I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  occasionally go "OMG SCIENCE!" about things.) I just shared that with you for ... one involves what I do all this pipetting for: let's talk about my UROP ... chemistry. I came across the lab's website last year when I was looking for a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  system for freshmen, or any of the wide variety of acronyms that have ... and relatives is that, “Oh, I'm heading back this Sunday for IAP.” If I ... in another language! (For all you pre-frosh out there, just think: next

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  . But that's another story for another blog entry. What am I going to ... . S. Johnston Every major at MIT has a course that's famously hard. For ... Unified. For computer scientists, it's "Laboratory in Software Engineering

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  If you are a senior, you know that you are playing for all the ... college process for most high school students. How important is your GC ... that make them so valuable to you? For starters they: Help you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  'd mention here that the MIT Overnight Program is open for business. You can ... 's an art!) so it can take up to a week for you to receive a response after submitting your ONP request. Thanks for your patience! If you have

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogger Decisions Released Many thanks to all of this year's incredible applicants!

  

  : you guys are amazing. Every year when the call for new bloggers goes out ... and two blogger alums) met earlier today and had to deliberate for hours ... , and we thank you so much for applying. Please remember that it's really

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Incoming freshmen, come to the Activities Midway tomorrow! Find a group where you can continue your hobbies and try something new.

  

  student group on campus (246 of them!!!!) We'll all be vying for your ... -Biomedical Engineering Society table (#33) for chocolate mice and skittles, and the Camp Kesem table (#125) to meet my fellow counselors. For a list of groups

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 30, 2007