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• Blog / Admissions

  State of the Mail We're processing a lot of mail.

  

  is to please be patient as you watch the application tracking system on ... is more than 40,000 application pieces to be processed in a very brief ... As I write, our terrific Records Office team is processing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  colleague in London who studied the Y chromosomes of ancient Britains to infer ... something, because everyone else in the room went "mmmm!" very sagely, to ... site (didn't catch where). The guy next to me jutted in to ask how many

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  The Proposal One part hack + two parts romance = Lobby 7 love!

  

  . For example, last week, some people constructed the following to ... "hacks" (if you can call it that) occured on May 20th, 2004 -- right in the ... his true actions: designing, building, and executing the most

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

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

  

  Infinite Corridor is perhaps too aptly named... After finding the Wikipedia-styled notification at the end of the Infinite, I challenged myself to find as many ... stepping down from the position. (I managed to cite my source there, at least

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. Two nights ... from my house (according to Yahoo! Maps) is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new ... Bostonian perspective to try to extend the Boston sort of consciousness out in ... This year MIT is celebrating a century in Cambridge. "Boston Tech

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  will unmistably help in my attempts to tame the beast that is MIT. I mean, I didn’t even think I was going to come here in the first place ... year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Not admitted

  

  This year was the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting fewer than 13% of applicants means we had to turn away many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  mentioned in her entry, IAP 2010 is about to begin! People are doing all sorts of cool things: one of my floormates is studying abroad in Madrid, another is implementing a project in the Philippines, and yet another is in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Looked outside my window, and what did I see I probably shouldn't be surprised, but I am.

  

  This is probably one of the last things I was expecting to see when I went to my window to investigate the staggeringly loud noise I heard ... impossible to try and capture it all in a blog. Never fear though, I'll figure

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have changed a bit, though not as much as you would think. In preparation for the ... principles. Later in the course, we are going to study nonideal solutions

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

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

  

  discourage procrastination. The closer you send in your application to the ... the holidays, I'll try to field some questions here. Please remember that January 1 is the submission deadline for students applying for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended ... ? Should we leave it to the NGOs? Where is the best place to intervene? How ... From the comments on my last entry, the mean is 3.21748954013248 and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  The streets are paved with slush, everything is cold, and my pajamas ... , strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music ... of the week's events; read/watch this if you want to know more about

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of student support services are available?

  talk to, S3 can help. The S3 mission is to promote the academic success ... hose and Student Support Services (S3) is available to help you manage ... something going on in your life, you feel too ill to take an exam, you
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  final show, where the viewers have to call in their votes. It would be ... to vote! The judges have chosen the six finalists, and the race is on ... . The advantage to the device is that it activates by just pushing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  is to bring together global experts in areas ranging from cryptography ... managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to distribute $100 in Bitcoin to every MIT undergraduate as his final project for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  me up in the MIT ambulance. We proceeded to the ambulance bay, where I ... that answer: Yep, it was good (despite the to-be-described misfortune, I ... images of injuries requiring the use of these resources often danced in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... honored in the strip." The strip has not yet run, but as of 12:58am this ... who wrote scripts (computer programs) to "stuff" the ballot box. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Got Questions? I have answers.

  

  Hey guys - sorry for not blogging in so long! I've been up to all sorts of things in the past month that have distracted me from blogging. Specifically: finding a UROP for the summer (I'll be working in the Lang Lab

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 23, 2009