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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  it for yourselves in the next six months. I can hardly wait. The ... probably went to bed at 3 AM the night before and can't believe that I just ... have happened once during a particularly boring dream, but I can

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  then I'm trying to clean my room, so that one day I can take pictures and

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  Hello! I wanted to take this opportunity to provide an update on the admissions process. We have received approximately 15,600 applications for freshman admission this year. As you can see on the admissions statistics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  many times can get a little repetitive and even confusing (after about

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  back and answer the questions that I can (please limit your questions to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  warmth. American Airlines, you can take away the sweetness of my freedom to travel, but you can't take away the sweetness of cookies, which contain ... neurobiological sensory wiring, which you can't alter by canceling flights. I rest

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  this point, but maybe later I can tell you more about Honduras (There

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  Space Weapons" and everything in between. You can check out some of the ... events which happen more quickly than the human eye can detect. (WARNING: PDF...written by my 2.009 instructor, actually!)You can read a biography

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  It's been a busy week, and I've still got a lot on my mind. As long as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  plug for current students - if you want to be involved in iHouse, you can ... . I can't even count how many people I know in the current undergrad ... Splash! (plug#2 - Splash! is amazing - you can teach ANYTHING. ANYTHING you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  they necessarily know better, and you can't just tell them to shove it ... have been done. The biggest favor you can do for yourself is to treat pass/no-record as if it did not exist. Blow it off just because you can

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  's something to avoid if you can. It's unlikely to be the difference between

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  ? How many students were admitted Early Action? Luckily, I can refer most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  did my best. What can I say, I suck at goodbyes. Things I am grateful ... important, and the hardest to put into words. I can be a pretty big critic of ... verano! [red wine and lemon soda] Well, you can make it in the US, I guess

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  clothing with the help of TechCash, but since I can't do that anymore I find ... nondisclosure agreements I can't tell you about them. I'll try to write an entry about work shortly and fill it with as much stuff as I can but I'll have

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: You can also listen to a more serious

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  Majors You can't do everything at MIT. But you can do enough. Laura: Tests ... ... Humor Laura: Mechanical Sense of Humor Sometimes engineering can be fun ... , any questions we can help with? That's part of why we're here, after all.

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  writing for me, I can't force myself to write something within a given ... essay the best it can be. This post is called "discovering yourself ... out what matters in your life, transferred it to paper, and can only

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two Cool Projects

  

  individually. Sinchi Warmi can choose to ask its members to contribute a portion

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  that you can get a sneak preview: Next, a hearty round of

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008