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• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  Today. I. Joined. Quidditch. The awesomeness is still sinking in ... for a while. I bike year-round, but today was the first time since fall that I went on a bike ride for fun, instead of just to get to class

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  ...Heliport? Heliport? Did I read that correctly? Yes, Kamen has, in addition to a garage ... allowed at the event (or I would have taken pictures for you and the blog ... applications, I grabbed a Zipcar Prius and set a course for New Hampshire. After

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East ... (Course 18). I’ve sat transfixed in random places in the hallway many times ... Institute in this post, and will return to the topic in more detail soon. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  committment to diversity. In fact, as early as 1917, the Boston Daily Globe reported that "few, if any institutions, in the United States have a higher ... start in the 20th century. It started in 1885, when the first MIT yearbook

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  If I'm not mistaken this is the time of year when you begin in ... gracious to send you. I know that most of you will put it all in a big box ... socialscenarios. Do you offer the academic program that I'm interested in? What

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  Spanish speakers anywhere else in the world would fail to understand, found ... constituents, a worthy cause in today’s political climate. I met MIT people I ... It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  friends, in the order they asked. Scretious Scretious is… I guess the best ... inspired by Banti G. ‘17) Life 1.   In a stunning turn of events, I declared ... Media Studies or Course 17 - Political Science. In a year, I went from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  I participated in the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program ... which is in one of the entries (would any MacGregorites care to clarify ... attend a one-week session where we work in small groups, along with a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  events!!!! But first I want to give you the scoop about how gay things are ... super cool events, but I’m not involved because I’m not affiliated in any ... are not all of them, but the ones I am involved in/plan on attending

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... My story begins a couple weeks ago at Career Fair.... As I attempted ... difficult to navigate where all the booths were. But eventually, I stumbled

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  -fats. See how much time I saved you on the treadmill? Be sure that you can use ... Action Applications. Can I be frank with you? (As apposed to Bob? I'm so funny! I crack me up!) I am stressed! Reviewing admissions applications is

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  about the show in yesterday's New York Times, I learned something I didn ... . She sounds like someone who would be interesting to meet... I'll have to look her up the next time I'm in Southern California. Anyway, the first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Simmons (I just moved, again), I noticed something floating in the air ... line connecting the roofs of MacGregor and Simmons. How did they do it? Woooo Sochi 2014! If you're interested in previous hacks, MIT hacks

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  ;re here to answer your questions.  How can we help?  Answers below in the comments.  I will try to update this post with FAQs ... period, but I strongly suggest you submit your application well in advance

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little ... weekend, but as long as you understand that coming in to the weekend, I ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  Gratitude in Berkeley Their menu has dishes with names like I AM MAGICAL ... Ayush wrote: "How about a Clown Parade around the MIT campus? That might strike as perfect after circus school and this show." Haha, I don

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  operator, I take other people's answers and call them in, so I also get to ... headquarters. There's my laptop in the middle, where I watch what answers have ... 't have right answers to those! Anyway, I'm only posting just now, because

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack ... Cheese During in-house rush, I was told that the G unofficially stood for ... through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100 ... prepositions at the ends of sentences and phrases. See how annoying I sound if I ... ’t write about your time in prison.” I heard this in a video once. There are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  roofs. I like lists. Here's my happy list of things to look forward to ... Better Next Semester Cats So let's take this one by one. Mighty Mugs I'M GOING TO MAKE MUGS!! I was having my favorite caramel hot cider at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015