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• 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  I met sophomores Boris Alexeev and Shaye Storm three years ago at a ... judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to ... ten-year olds (and even staring at the pretty graphs on his poster), I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... for thirty years, and how helpful it had been to science, and then I was ... Even though I am rarely directly asked this question, I know it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  presentations seriously. You know how in most classes you might have one or two ... wall to change in size. I was my team's Information Officer, which meant ... made me HTFP, but in the end, I absolutely loved it. I built this crazy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a ... If you were in Boston sometime these past few nights and glanced ... :   ...or giant bobblehead figures of esteemed MIT alumni brawling in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  I wanted to give everyone an update on our campaign to feed the homeless that I started with my friends last month. On November 11, 2015 ... difference. Over 60 people donated and we raised a total of $275 in just two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  At approximately 4:30pm today, we did something we haven't done in 4 ... determine how many students we could take at this time, and which students to admit. It was extremely difficult! I had thought we were done with tough

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR), which is located just down the road from MIT! I pass this spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  Hello, world. It’s been awhile. Mostly because I’ve been swamped. It ... writing about my life, I'll do a little show-and-tell.   Half of getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018