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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  welcome to apply. In the interest of full disclosure, however, you should know that we will be looking to hire almost exclusively incoming freshmen to maintain a balance between new students and upperclassmen. That said

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  reacting, we must recognize and learn from two elements that may seem to be ... don't expect our applicants to be perfect, we do require them to be truthful. And we must hold ourselves to that standard. I want to reassure

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  email to Ben Jones: ---------- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:03:56 -0400 ... though, to meet me, that is. You know where I live. Here a special shoutout to my homegirl Jessica. She was my prefrosh hostee for an overnight

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alive and In London Updates from the Road

  

  Currently writing to you from the London Apple Store. Spring Break has been a blast so far. Once I find free wireless, I'll upload the real entries.

  • by Bryan
  • March 26, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  to Medical! One drawback to the program, however, is that you don't really get to know other MedLinks very well. After training, you see them ... students can choose to go to any available MedLink for help. When Med

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  was worried I hadn't made enough friends, wouldn't have time to travel to all the places I wanted to see, wasn't taking advantage of being abroad, needed to do more schoolwork, etc. Good thing I was wrong

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  heartbreaking stories. I had originally planned to publish one to three pieces ... , Costa Rica I became a Food Channel fan since I decided to apply to MIT. No kidding, but going to college away from home requires more skills than just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  of time (sorry!) and after Ruth's balloon adventure, I headed over to ... door, Bryan was like "Laura! OMG we have to take a picture now that there ... someone else take the shot. Then he sent it to me and I spent way, way too

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  would be fun to read. Be warned - I may (read: will) overdramatize a good ... day tubes made it to South Florida, Neha '10 (that's Mr. Neha to you and ... came, so she drove to school to give her the tube. Kris '10 and I were in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  While You Wait… Like robotics? Like the Rubik's Cube?

  

  Like robotics? Like the Rubik's Cube? Check out this video that someone sent me. Discuss. (Sorry for the short post! Back to selection...)

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  , buckets upon buckets of pieces of your applications to be opened, sorted ... , for the pieces that come via snail mail, we have to open the envelopes ... has to be entered into the database and tracking system. Next, things

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  you'll go to an information session at an ivy league university, or ... AM to start sweating the onions for my award-winning apple cream of ... to present a total of 6 dishes for tasting and judgment. I was incensed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heading back up Goodbye Maryland, hello Boston!

  

  Helllo! Today's the day...I'm going back to good old Boston. Any last minute questions about classes or life??? Post away...

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Redefinitions Name the planet contest REDUX.

  

  http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/pluto-new.html So now, we're down to 8 planets. Thus, the contest needs revision itself. Best mnemonic you can make with MVEMJSUN. Ready, set, go!

  • by Bryan
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this ... it.) If anyone has seen a more nerdy/cute billboard, I'd like to hear

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  2010 (if there was a newspaper article about you, feel free to send a link my way). It's nice to read about MIT MMX like celebrities! Today, we ... a week's worth to follow. At the conclusion of this series, I plan to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what ... to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... I graduate. This is my promise. So similar to the list of parameters

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the ... now, the real stuff A common concern voiced about applying to ... 's going to be difficult for a given student to stand out among his or her

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  Alfred Wallace, who sent a letter to Darwin describing a similar idea one ... destination. In the 36 hours we spent there, I think we got to see about one percent of it. So, if I were to do a full photo entry on all of Berlin, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Vacation A week of total relaxation didn't stop me from thinking about MIT constantly.

  

  . Here I am, preparing to do an info session for the people on the beach: I even made my wife do some recruiting: To make it seem as though ... utterly ridiculous entries for you all to enjoy: The LiveJournal Survey The

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 10, 2006