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• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  in recent years deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do ... right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly suggest ... , too, can request a deferral any time right up until Registration Day in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  examples of how MIT students are already involved in making the world a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the Colbert Bump MIT's Riley Crane talks DARPA Challenge on ''The Colbert Report''

  

  Remember when MIT beat out teams from around the world to be the first to find all 10 hidden red balloons in DARPA's balloon challenge? Well Dr. Riley Crane, the team leader, was interviewed on "The Colbert

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people ... profound blog post, so I’ll go ahead and zoom in on some the crazy things ... You know what’s the best part about going to 3.091 [Chem.] at 11 in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  TGIF! After a long week comes...a FEAST!

  

  . This week, we went to Buk Kyung II, a Korean restaurant in Allston. So

  • by Celena C. '12
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday! (a.k.a my first video blog) vlogging? MEAT CAKE!

  

  that died in transit, brownies, and most importantly- Steakon!

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 30, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  on the waitlist to 454 people, in the possibility that we needed to go ... are fully satisfied with the class. Last year, we admitted students in ... how this year looks in a few weeks. The waitlist committee has been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  stood in the middle. *boom boom boom* Ahhhhh sh**, get your towels ready ... , and do my duty to the Lonely Island. Everybody in the place hit the ... -white (but still mostly white) gangster I can manage, and join in. That's right

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Calm Before the Storm After 6+ months of planning, over 2,000 prefrosh and parents are headed toward Cambridge, Mass...

  

  amazing acts at the show (in alphabetical order): - Bhangra (dance, Punjabi ... actually used to be in the Chorallaries, and I used to be in the Logs (back in our undergrad days). These are, of course, just a sampling of the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.

  

  kind of joke. (In related news, Pi Day is only eleven days away. Get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all seriousness, maybe this post is giving people the wrong impression. The first thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  how weird would that be? Instead it died in the much more subtle Bso ... his homework when he should’ve in high school, I wasn’t. I was a goof, I only worked hard in inconsistent spurts. I didn’t take notes, I never

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Final Push Who needs sleep?

  

  This is it, MIT is in the middle of finals week and the final grind is upon us. My last final is tomorrow morning (exactly 12 hours from now) and I have not yet begun studying. That's right, not even looked at

  • by Snively '11
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  costume. So, here I am as a duke: Note the plume in my hat. Hats with ... my friends in Senior Haus. Note the mural of Death (from Neil Gaiman's Sandman) in the background, which is one of my favorites, out of all the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  repercussions turned out to bite me in the proverbial butt. Thus is the beginning for the tale of the midnight tool: Prologue: Having taken BC Calc AP in ... figured 18.01 would be a walk in the park, I took one look at the p-set and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  Reformed Church (though I was technically born in Detroit, the not ... best color in the box. From the ages of 3-10, my life goal was to be ... myself when I wake up in the morning because I can hardly believe that I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  that "no one" at the Institute appreciates, let alone participates, in ... involved with. In fact, there are over 50 different music, theater, and dance groups on campus, specializing in everything from improv comedy to jazz

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  on the waitlist to 739 people, in the possibility that we needed to go ... admitted students in two rounds of waitlist admissions. We'll know more about how this year looks in a few weeks. The waitlist committee has been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  in the bible and there was something going on at that moment. I stayed in the Alpha Chi Omega (AXO) sorority house with my host, who was also on the tennis team (nice matching job!). I was interested in finding

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  Class of 2011 deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do intensive ... time right up until Registration Day in September (though I strongly ... , too, can request a deferral any time right up until Registration Day in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008