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• Blog / Admissions

  Update from selection We're working through the weekend towards admitting the Class of 2011.

  

  Saturday looked like last year during early action: That's President Susan ... in the snow in Killian Court. This year, it was a completely different story. If President Hockfield and Casey were playing in Killian today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The ratio of people to cake is too big.

  

  !, 2003 (this puzzle, instead of a word answer, has an image for an answer ... another quality stapler in the office for me to use, so all is well in the ... required only for students in U.S. school systems, do other students need to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye ... to be anxious about returning to school for my last semester. there was a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  . (2) n. An inelegant shortcut to get something done quickly, for example ... . (1) Someone with a high level of expertise in an esoteric, usually ... points for using these in your comments, or, even better, as many as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  , which in practice, is an excuse for Harvard and MIT students to hang out with their friends in Princeton for a weekend while getting travel ... lunchtime to look for my friends. Most of the high school friends I knew who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  teacher can download together with an answer sheet for a classroom ... homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  boat. An obvious photo-opp for the "Sophomore Guys." We stared at ... 's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice ... "on a boat." Once on board we mingled for a bit, took some

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  . Then, we sat in the car for half an hour behind a zillion other cars who ... for someone looking both mad and Russian. Along the Blue Ridge Parkway ... for forty minutes in the mud, inching forward slowly, waiting for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  . He didn't come in like a know-it-all. "It was an impressive meeting ... the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals). As an undergraduate, Helfant lived in Burton-Conner, the same dorm that currently is home to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute ... waitlist. We will have more information for waitlisted students in the

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  live in Colorado). So that was cool. I also found out that if I had an idea for an activity while at MIT that all I had to do was write it up ... Hello everyone, prospectives for the coming years and prefrosh alike

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  in immaculately-high resolution? That's all over now. There's an ... sell us an excellent slice of "chocolate moose cake" (homonym for ... 's Taqueria closest to MIT. Now that there's an Anna's in the student center

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  do I have for you? Don't worry if your CPW doesn't look exactly like ... right for you. In particular, don't feel pressured to go to tons of events ... Students' Weekend. Admitted high school seniors flood MIT for 3.14 days and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  of the bezels from '01 to '08. An updated version was published in 2008 ... . Legend has it that it is the third most recognized ring in the world, after the Superbowl Ring and the Pope Ring. The tradition began in the spring

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  entertainment in Sharon Meadow Official SF AIDS Walk website And now for the ... personalized web page and charge your donation. Thank you, in advance, for supporting this important cause and for showing that you join me in wanting to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  Vermont and New Hampshire. In Vermont, for instance, I lived in the ... furthest south I've ever lived (except for one year I spent as an undergrad ... (ditto for your core); and cotton kills (NEVER wear cotton in the cold

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  academics: junior year was so great for me in part because it was the first ... saying any of this in a disparaging way; but for some people, instant ... even when I didn’t know what in the world I wanted to use it for. And

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  's of Engineering in EECS. (Actually, it looks like since then, Colin ... MIT, both involving RFID technology (for those who aren't that tech ... from the San Jose Mercury News - "'Printed Chips' Could be Boon for

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come to MIT Get a free haircut!

  

  interested in learning to cut hair; anyone can email and ask for a cut, but ... It’s spring break! Time for students to stop frantically trying to ... things they pushed aside for psets before. Catherine ’12 was quite busy

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 20, 2009