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• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  .716" is way too much for me. How do you even say that out loud? Isn't it just much easier to call it "Spanish Lit" or something? Really now ... feel slightly attached to it. But don't worry, I'm definitely more happy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  easier? Not to mention your most special friend, or "friend^0" is "the one ... adopt exponential notation to denote level of friendship. I.e. A "friend", or "root-level" friend is one that you personally know and like. A

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mr. E. Hunt In which I return to blogging only to learn that I forgot how to blog,…

  

  deliver* a sandwich to the first person(s) to solve it from scratch**. *The ... processing is invaluable. The answer is one word. PS: Need to change my page ... Truth be told, I have no idea how to use the MIT admissions web

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  awkwardly inline. As fun as it is to play outside, the time-honored sport of ... have a massive summer reading list that I cooked up... although it is ... way back to our dorm. And that's why a good day is often a day when, at

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  , ha. i guess i think it is good to normalize discussion of mental health ... 'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I ... didn't make it a bad semester, just less bloggable. To touch on some of

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  ." A cute story, no? Surprisingly, Levitt did not re-tell it to Stephen ... to Professor Levitt -- the "Economists do it with models" t-shirt. ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this ... video. I did and they liked it so they flew me out to film! I can only ... the meals were catered and it was all pretty good stuff tailored to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  reset it. Simply visit MyMIT and click on the lost password link. There is ... enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early ... ET). To check your decision on the 16th, visit decisions.mit.edu and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  time to visit. And if you really can't make it, no worries. I lived ... yesterday, Jeanne's phone rang and we went to meet our overnight guest (who ... my floor after an effort to microwave a bagel pizza went terribly

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  lot of great students we weren't able to admit. It's true that MIT admission is tough; with a 6% admit rate, it's especially true for transfer ... We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now

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

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  planning committee, I feel it is my duty to share with you all the exciting event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among ... We held it at the Boston Sheraton In this picture, the Sheraton is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  that good. Californians constantly tell me that it is, but I have been to a lot of burger places, and it is not. Instead, In-N-Out is to Californians what Dunkin Donuts is to New Englanders: it is so familiar and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  you.) Then it was time to start (START!!!) packing. I frantically threw ... back and get it. So, we turned around, and pulled into a 7/11 to take a ... AM I GOING TO TAKE??) -- and before I know it, I will officially have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  Fall Formal, which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a chance ... any photos of the food, so you'll just have to take my word that (a) it ... One of the most common misconceptions about MIT is that the Institute

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  August that is so beautiful and soothing I'm going to embed it right here ... /production process, and 100% of it was conjured by Loren, who I have come to suspect is ... figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  that Jeremy was able to experience a part of recently. Jeremy: It’s a ... of the Paige Universe (or Pagi-nation, as she prefers to call it): math ... been to Fresno, so it’s time we return in search of the next Paige,” I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  it is in the current Ring Committee's and the 13th member's best ... . Now, it is our hope that the selection process for the 13th member will ... , Congratulations on completing your first year at MIT! It has been a tough year

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  classmates. The transition to college is hard. There's no need to rush it. I ... application and have chosen to defer it to our Regular Action review.  I didn ... left 70.77% of applicants, or 10,673 applicants, to deferral. This is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  the bottom line to this story is that MIT values openness. Besides the ... to openness; it was something I could sense from my very first visit to ... I'm back to work tomorrow, hopefully posting a new Questions Omnibus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  and I'm tempted to cross the room and hit snooze, it's like a little ... ." So far, the voice is compelling enough for me to immediately get up ... enjoyable to do) than psets and exams, so it all works out nicely. This term

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009