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  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  . We'll be working throughout the week, making decisions and preparing to release them on the web and through the mail. This is what Selection ... Hockfield, her daughter Elizabeth, and their golden retriever, Casey, playing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  shall provide. This list is not intended to be comprehensive by any means ... , and some friends. You have been warned. Freakangels A beautifully-drawn dystopia set in post-apocalyptic England. Penny Arcade For, by, and about

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... Medical Students Association, and it took 2 ½ hours for the food to arrive ... better, the nice library staff gave us cookies, coffee, and tea.) There

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  of a week-and-a-half of them, running from 9/10/19 to 9/19/19. While ...  English, and you can read it on the web here. Or, if you come to MIT, you can take 21L.489[J]: Interactive Narrative with Nick and learn how to make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  ". translating from corporate to normal speak, it means the toilet is clogged and ... change, a real gate change, and at least two more hours to go before i get ... they want to cancel and switch flights. nobody's having a good time, but

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  compelling. I went down the list, and orange felt just right: rare enough to be interesting, common enough to take us all around MIT. To inform our orange ... lag and low video quality"]livestream[/annotation]showing the Class of

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  at. And generally, the programs that I'm applying to accept around ... 't blogged in a while. Life, we'll say has been a little exciting lately, and by a little I mean a ton. I was invited to interview for my PhD at my

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  Boston. Now, after a lull in posting over the holiday and during yesterday ... remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates A post about not having any news (yet).

  

  be using the waitlist, and, if so, how many people we'll be looking to ... . Regardless, if you are on the waitlist and hope to be taken off of the waitlist ... The Class of 2010 is beginning to take shape. We know some replies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  letters and packages to be mailed. I'll keep you posted. Decisions will ... sadness - because we were not able to offer a spot to SO MANY wonderful people. This seems to be the case every year. You'd think I'd get used to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 Already?!? Back to work tomorrow... wow do vacations go fast!

  

  Hi everyone, Just wanted to say hello. Having been out for a week I am presently inundated with email and related communications backlog; I will respond to everything but it will likely take the better part of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  stick figures and Crayola crayons to communicate my daily adventures. I ... So my mom and I are pretty tight. I do call her every day courtesy of ... answer, so I resorted to sending her an email. I decided that I would

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  applied 1,495 admitted We use the exact same criteria to evaluate and ... are deferred to regular action are considered again and equally with ... will give you credit changes year to year (this is set by the faculty and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  /IAmA subreddit."]AMA ("Ask Me Anything")[/annotation] on April 18 (9 AM EST) to ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT ... comments section and ask us your burning questions! You can also upvote other

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  need to decide on a major (sometime during sophomore year) and then study ... , think long and hard about what you want to study before deciding where ... was still not what they wanted, and left again for good. So there

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  had some great meals. I love traveling to try the different foods and ... itinerary (stay tuned), so I'm looking forward to it. And later this weekend ... (...as opposed to other OCs) I'm in Orange County California, in a

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

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  -night delirious whims of posting. Oh well. So, it's late (3:00 AM) and I just ... ). Here's when you know it's time to go to bed. Roommate Jon: "Did you get ... Mathematica could do it." Jon: "I know, the same thing happened to me. I think I

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

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  awaiting your Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) video introduction to MIT's dorms, you can watch the trailer here: 2005 i3 Trailer ... lottery will run June 1-17. As a historical note, I helped to secure the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... uncommon for exams at MIT to be open book; we don't want to test rote ... to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  school and to get accepted into a great college. Sometimes this dream can ... valedictorian at Lucy C. Laney High School. He plans to major in electrical and ... to tell you it was not always easy. That's because Terence and his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009