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  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  , please remember to fax in your Medical Release Form ASAP. The form came in ... the website as a PDF. You can fax it to 617-253-4076. If we don't get it, you'll have to get your p[arents to sign it and fax it to us at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  of excellence in math, science and engineering will tend to fare well ... Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... found the secret on guarenteed [sic] Admissions to MIT This comes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  quite busy here in Admissions lately. In addition to the requisite 4 ... entry, I'll be going home to relax tonight. Things are starting to get ... me. This morning was a meeting about our new viewbook, discussed in Ben

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I ... , with no Central Meetings to do, I'll get to catch up with some friends ... crowds. If you're in the South Bay, I look forward to seeing you there!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  . In the fall, one of JPL's Curiosity engineers gave a talk to the Solar ... . One way to bypass this limitation is to launch a telescope in multiple ... , but orders of magnitude bigger. To put it in perspective with today

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  it’s like to live on Conner 2, or plan REX, or UROP, or decide how to ... It is summer in Cambridge, which means that: I am growing an ... 's a million fun things happening in the Kendall/MIT Open Space it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  carefree hours devoted just to think. Now, I ponder how the lives of these ... there is so much to be explored. Can we truly model that moth flitting in ... lightning snaps Boston in two. Most people had already run for their Back Bay

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  possible in these situations. When you’re able to do so, reach out to us at ... you need to apply in the timeline that works best for you and don ... ’re getting the support they need, and we’re individually trying our best to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  staying up until dawn in a cold November, talking to friends. I remember ... rise from Killian Court in my pajamas. I remember my soon-to ... space robots. I remember friends teaching me how to handle liquid

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  warning: wherever you happen to be, it will get real dusty real quick once ... auto parts store. It doesn't get much foot traffic anymore - what ... and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  taking catnaps and eating cookies. I've managed to get a few experiments in ... Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only ... . You would sort of think that kind of time would inspire me to study 5

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  time in the last eight years that we have not been able to go to our wait ... sending in, and truly appreciate the time and effort you have put in to ... students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  this that makes me so proud (and in awe) to be associated with MIT ... !), I'm looking forward to yet another interesting year. In my plans for ... this summer" post...) Meanwhile, as the summer comes to an end, how was

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  a very challenging year in which to select a class. Nevertheless, I ... . We won't be able to confirm 100% until we're a bit farther along in the ... ,000 of the "$100 laptops" (currently coming in at closer to $150). One

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  , Helfant lived in Burton-Conner, the same dorm that currently is home to ... ) before he got appointed, to sort of get the definite okay," said Federer ... blog readership will be excited to learn this fact. Adam Helfant, MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  binary star passes in front of another binary star, you get an eclipse. The ... with scientists in Chile, Arizona, and Hawaii (if you want to travel to ... UROPers hung up their lab coats to head home, Shaye and two other undergrads

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  Angus(!!) who lived on 1E and graduated in 2018   To be honest I ... excited to share them with you First is a mounted snake skeleton, look how ... night I wrote this post and forgot to click publish so I'm going to add a

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  among "Outstanding Faculty" in the Business Week Guide to the Best ... -foundations of institutional change. In order to change practices that comprise ... coming to MIT, Kate spent six years in consulting at Bain & Company and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  now that I felt at ease in and around the water. More to the point, I ... how I might be able to take it out to the ocean, perhaps letting it sit ... in the dock, my wandering thoughts continued to hang on each new sight

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  favorite character in the novel. Still, I don't get what's up with all these ... Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I'll finish up this entry when I'm safely and comfortably back in room 224C

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005