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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  to lecture. I anticipate seeing people open and close their seats for ... they end up choosing. I know, it's very important and you're dying to ... . Therefore, by MIT standards, it is referred to as 10-250 (ten two-fifty). It

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

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  to take in life, and how we should do things that we like, not necessarily things that we are expected to do, etc.... and then when he spoke ... that there are still no answers to the most basic questions. Physics

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  Campus Preview Weekend starts tomorrow, and for pika, my cooperative ... session, and late-night smoothies on Thursday Soapmaking, screen printing, hair dying, Italian dinner, forkapple*, shoeblade**, a tea party, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT ... or not" contest There's also free pie for everyone! And, you can pick ... its diameter? A: Pumpkin pi. Don't forget to celebrate Pi Day (3

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  wonderful holiday vacations, and here's to a great 2007! I'll leave you with ... LImelight. (I challenge any other admissions office to a Karaoke competition ... Rick. :-) Stu and Matt get into it. Stu and Matt really get into it

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.

  

  Salvador and Amy each read 922 applications, and we received 10 ... February 28.) Salvador takes 5 days of vacation in December and 2 days in ... January, and 1 in February. All else being equal - for applications for

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Alia Burton ‘05 Name: Alia Burton; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

  

  : interesting and brilliant people; students of every major can take nearly any class and do research in any department; "nerdiness" and quirkiness aren't uncommon; people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences Favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Good Luck Jo-Jo!

  

  competition, and went on to compete in Miss America. You can read all about ... serving as President of the Undergraduate Association, and she was serving ... consultant in the medical technology and pharmaceutical industries. Tonight and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  Seriously, I am really, really bad at not tripping and falling over ... on one (1) set of steps in front of Senior Haus and nearly hitting ... -covered sidewalk and falling flat on my butt in front of a group of construction

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  This is a very brief blog post to remind you —  as our announcement ... Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. The final presentations always overflow Kresge Auditorium, and if you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  months furiously writing and rewriting their personal essays to [annotation ... those personal essays. I recall really having to dig down deep into what ... that you've learned a lot about yourself, and we also hope that you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  flashing at different times and then for one moment they're all flashing at ... in different weeks so that you have one or two exams to take every two weeks or so. But then there is this one week that just happens to fulfill

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  struggle between bloggers and prefrosh over whether the "FIRST!" approach to ... This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a ... to take that opportunity away from prefrosh. What they forget is that

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  Musical kids yet, either) Tomorrow, I will get to have breakfast with the ISEF finalists who are members of the MIT Class of 2011, then I'll get to check out the projects, and finally a reception (now with fabulous prizes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  -powered prism and sprays rainbows down the walls. While adjusting my standing desk and settling into my morning routine, I looked, as I so often do, out through the trees, onto the lawn, past the enormous catapult, and across the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  . (Oh, and it's got facts and stuff on it.) With that in mind, here's to ... the only way it knows how: through imitation (as flattery), and a hint ... -styled notification at the end of the Infinite, I challenged myself to find as many

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  yourself, donate $100 to the ALS Association, or do both, and then publish ... and full of personality and they're breaking the stereotype of the university president. My favorite example of such continues to be MIT President

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... . During that interview Hersh - who I think it is fair to say is somewhat

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  additional lift to keep the behemoth and its 400-ton payload aloft while ... prototype and expects to have one completed by 2010. Pasternak says several ... compartments throughout the ship and compress it to manage onboard weight. The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LOOK AT MY NOTION!!!!!! 🌱 my notion is very pretty. i spent 5 entire days on it so pls notice…

  

  ="108321" /] please direct any ardent praise to [email protected].

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 9, 2025