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• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now ... Beta Kappa inductees, admissions interns, and more. Thanks go out to ... any to do so. The numbers for this year look remarkably like they did

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  were not able to offer admission, and I am feeling equally sad about that ... to pass the time, and you haven't read this already, check out this ... -decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  time to peel, and forget about it in a 350 degree oven for 90 minutes. As ... . SPAM POLL If you were describing an integral in words to somebody and ... DID YOU KNOW? The new wave-y pop song "I Should Be Allowed To Think

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  career fair haikus this post contains your Daily Value of sodium

  

  😤   I approached the stand  $old my self, car, home, and soul To ... , we're going shopping." *Drives to career fair*👕   Push through ... handshake A spit shower 🗣 and quick talk This is all I got

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Videos Over the Years The 90s were, uh, different

  

  I was going through some of the Admissions archives last week and watching old recruitment videos and HOO BOY, have times changed. (And hoo boy ... silent film that was almost an hour long! An HOUR! What was it even like to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Vol. III Everyone gather 'round the laptop 'cause it's movie time!

  

  poopy situations, and Anna has been dancing the night away in Cambridge, I've been going on to Facebook, enjoying plenty of potty humor and having ... entries to come involving my research and other jobs, but until then here

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • July 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  similar to her other stories, but it was still insightful, entertaining, and ... , where about thirty-five students got to speak with Lahiri and get their ... alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.

  

  i was going to write a post about Thanksgiving and Drop Date and not ... to read. I will, however, grace you with this: It takes up more ... , absolutely worth it. Our first show was tonight, and we all enjoyed an awesome

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  off, free street parking, copious amounts of barbequed meat, and ... doesn't look like this: Well I may not go to see the fireworks today ... ! I love Italy's amazing Roman ruins, gelato, pasta, and shopping, but I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  Commencement and MIDAS (a.k.a. the party button). Check it out. Marsha Bolton hosts this episode, and it features some interviews I conducted with ... to check out the view from up there. Nice work on ZigZag to producer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  Yes we dew. I am not very shy about my love and affection for the MIT library system. (See here and here for evidence.) On Saturday afternoons, I oftentimes embark on library crawls, during which I visit up to 3 libraries in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  got me an answering machine or a "so-and-so isn't home." Regardless, it was pretty fun, and there was a lot of free pizza and stuff to drink ... life in the city, and my friends. I should get on that. At least I got

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  4 8 15 16 23 42 If you already know what those numbers mean, this entry is for you.

  

  So I'm a Lost fanatic. Long-time readers know that Alias and The OC are my two favorite shows, but Lost is positioning itself to take the lead. I had lunch with Axiak last week and gave him the numbers. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 11, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  , classrooms, and labs radiate from here. Whatever you do, stay to the right when traveling the corridor and note that pedestrian speed increases dramatically when classes let out. In mid-November and in late January every year
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

  semester of biology, a semester of chemistry, and a selection of courses from the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. During your first ... subjects to help you explore your anticipated major. MIT’s GIRs ensure that
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, but with the advent of You ... first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  Weird and/or neat things I saw around campus this week, brought to ... entrusted us to level set and record using a massive set of equipment ... , lustrous, white beard waddled across my path and stared me down for a full

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  Well, I'm back from Atlantic City and have 3 million things to do in ... to 1.5 million things per day. Which is why this entry is short. Sanja said: I think I would just die if I were you... No, really, just to stand

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  trip brought me to Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan ... protocol? And you can't go to Thailand without seeing some of their ... to examine for a long time, and photograph. Hong Kong After

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Mystery Hunt Puzzle A Taste of Things to Come...

  

  handwritten solutions took you 10 pages, and you're very fed up with drawing molecular orbital diagrams. You still have a 14.01 pset to do, before the sun rises - and you haven't even read the textbook yet. Suddenly, these images

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2008