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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo terrasaurs, quetzals, and portal cows, oh my!

  

  There was another hack on campus this morning! This time, it would ... student groups. I'm happy to report that -- arguably unlike regular zoos ... , and that none of them were harmed in the making of this hack.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  serving the community - entire communities can pitch in, too. "I grasped the ... Amanda David, a sophomore at MIT majoring in management, had in mind when ... societies at MIT to serve the community at large. "Kristi, Sally and I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  are reading this, I hope you'll say a quick "hi" in the comments section ... more about options for international students. Coming in, I knew about ... (behind the camera: Ben) I'm in the office in Cambridge briefly again today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  I was just reading Wired Magazine online and came across this. Specifically, let's look at 1998. 1998 Disney has bought MIT for $6.9 billion ... MIT homepage. Hey, anything's better than trying to work in an Athena

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  Happy Thanksgiving! My friend Jennifer (MIT '01) is an artist/baker extraordinaire. This week I got her annual Thanksgiving comic in my inbox: Dear ... Thanksgiving group, including how to fry a turkey. But the awesomest Thanksgiving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  institutions, I often wondered how to give back. In Fall 2023, I joined the ... school counselor handed me the microphone after her warm welcome I was in ... the Grand Tetons[/caption] This spring, I had the chance to reconnect

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  useful as that button seems to be, I'm not sure how much it could actually ... . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder "What could possible be in that room?!" Some are pretty easy to figure

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  (I should note that I stole this title from a People article on Kate Hudson's wedding in Aspen, Colorado.) Last weekend, I went up to Seattle ... during Class of 2005 Orientation in August 2001, and they've been

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system ... to pick a place you feel most connected to the people in. I can ... . I don't actually know much I can in conscience say about it. Near the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  't have a smartphone. I sure wasn't going to spend all day in agonized ... . I'm talking about you, /massachusetts-institute-technology. In my ... ...don't freak out. 1. Prepare Your Wifi I applied early to MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  down the hall in hysterics increase. How does Jon react to the added ... I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn ... the workload. This is evidenced by our test subject, Jon, in Exhibit A

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  9:30am: I'm not blogging about admissions today, because at noon the 2007 Mystery Hunt will begin! I'm going to try today's entry as a ... about the Hunt, one of my favorite events of the year. In short, Mystery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  before 11AM. Go ahead. Start throwing things at me while I rub it in. I ... fellow frosh were in the same “MIT IS TAKING OVER MY LIFE AND I WANT TO GO ... Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions: Thursday 12/16, 9pm EST On Thursday evening, our admissions decisions will be online.

  

  , simply visit decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same username and ... before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. To ensure that you will receive a ... mail, carrier pigeon, or Nekobasu special delivery (though that would be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  just what one would expect to see at 11:30am on a Sunday in the MIT ... one of the breaks today, Stu, Amy, Mari and I headed over to the Student Center to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR 4th Mix Plus, in this case

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , and, as I wrote in Early, it would not have been possible without the ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... so much time speaking with so many students. Nor would it have been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space? A. Up in space we use a vacuum. I always tell kids it's not something ... 11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  committee worked hard over the course of several days to determine how many students we could take at this time, and which students to admit. I sat in for a day before leaving for Albuquerque and I can tell you that it was

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

  And here I am!

  

  Well, I'm back in the States. I thoroughly enjoyed everything but I ... five thousand miles of fishing line and a solid hook? :-) I've long maintained that one learns more in a week of travel than in a month of high

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  !) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort ... . I start in a few hours. Now ordinarily, the trainman wouldn't be ... 's life. I'd never driven that far in one shot before, and certainly not in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007