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• 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

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  application, get it sent in, and find out if they made it in. Others feel that ... let you in. Some apply early to help space out their applications ... brilliant. EA applicants are more self-selective, but you'll never get in

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  without it looking too conspicuous? When you're not wearing anything in ... first rehearsal to load-in to the first tech to the last night. Just ask ... year of high school. Theater is a wonderful experience in which you meet

  • by ARTalk
  • 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 / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  which are very interesting. In particular, though, 6.033 has two design ... magnetic disk, in spite of the fact that flash memory is distinctly unlike a ... .033/www/dp1/. Feel free to submit solutions in the comments. My one

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  razorblades in my throat (that's how it felt, anyway), constantly having to blow ... it gets any "worse." WORSE?! So I guess I'm not used to being in this ... dean's from S^3 went home sick today, and today another girl in my arabic

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  Taiwanese Students in my inbox a couple weeks ago: Cooking workshop. Oh, yeah ... Verde's. (In fact, the only time I even ever use TechCash is to do laundry. I ... available, both in high school and college, to learn about things outside the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to ... to comment below. ;-) All in all, about 60 students - a record turnout ... sisters. Upon arriving, I signed in with my name, living group, and class

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable pleather chair in my dentist's office waiting for a cleaning while reading the latest issue of Blender magazine (Bright Eyes and Rilo Kiley in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  the workload. This is evidenced by our test subject, Jon, in Exhibit A ... , start locking themselves in their rooms, and episodes of people screaming down the hall in hysterics increase. How does Jon react to the added

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  to because they came in the mail. In tubes. We also walked six miles to ... be scared together because in six days, I'll be six days closer to finals. And that kinda blows because nobody likes finals. (Thus, in lieu of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  them in!) ALL MY EMAILS YESTERDAY (interspersed throughout random times ... true; you only know us. ME: Oh, right. Every year in October, the ... zoo creatures, nobody's quite alive until after 10 AM. We in fact almost

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  So where have I been? Short answer: doing work. Or just at work. I just got a UROP doing chemistry and molecular biology-related stuff in the O'Connor Lab, guaranteeing me the shortest commute to work I'll ever

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New Server As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server.

  

  Hi folks, As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server. You'll probably notice better performance in page rendering right away; commenting is still slower than I'd like, but

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous ... was her prefrosh! I’m also Melis’ little sister in our sorority, Alpha ... another of the wonderful living groups at MIT. I live in McCormick Hall, MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  students we could take at this time, and which students to admit. I sat in ... extremely difficult. In the end, we were very happy to be able to admit these students from the waitlist -- in an email to the office, Stu wrote, "These

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and ... often, is "I don't judge, I just take pictures." In this case, I feel like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  experiences I’ve had this year. When I got into MIT back in December, I ... there, so that’s a pretty good sign I’ll fit in. :) I also ... "meditation room" full of balls, which I loved being in. I spent a lot of

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Boston Marathon has only been cancelled once in its 111-year history, in 1918. That was because of World War 1. So it's not ... out the weather report in mid-April and this is what I get... I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007