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  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  admissions for a long time, and (finally!) here goes. First, an important definition. For purposes of MIT Admissions, an international student is a ... geography. That is to say, many international students live in the US, and

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

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  President Emeritus Paul Gray, for its work in picking Schmill. Schmill said ... been named MIT's next dean of admissions, Dean for Undergraduate ... done a "remarkable job" in that capacity. "Under his committed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  Kendall used to park next to Building 66 in an alleyway that led to Main ... in touch with MIT, I signed up to be an Educational Counselor, and I ... blogging. Which will be a sad day. ---- So I'm now living in THE NYC, on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  academic administrator, she talked to me for over an hour about all the ... . Skills I developed in 17.803 alone qualify me for data science or analytics ... makes no sense for an MIT student to be a HASS major. Give MIT School of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... set in 3009, an epic-scale, unspeakably convoluted mash-up of sci ... flaunted in our admiring, frustrated faces. Examples included (1) an Apples

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcome our new bloggers! Huzzah!

  

  so much for taking the time and effort to apply. Writing for an ... hometown, and has much to tell you about the virtues of serif fonts in this ... finds unfamiliar paths in familiar places to meet new friendly faces. (Hey

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  well-organized spreadsheet. I'm always looking for ways I can improve ... to avoid doing this in the future. For a while, I've been trying to ... . A few weeks ago, I realized that the word I was looking for was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  figure out what classes I wanted to take. I was registered in 10 different ... in the HCI Engineering group at CSAIL led by Prof. Stefanie Mueller who taught the 6.810 class I took last semester. For the past few weeks, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  If you weren't aware, REX (Residence EXploration) is going to be in full swing soon, and for East Campus, that means lots and lots of stuff in the courtyard, which temporarily becomes a sprawling playground of 2

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  in Boston, conveniently 4 stops down on the red line from MIT, that ... concert. There was some tie-in with Verizon's release of a newer ... plumbing thing, and the crowd went WILD. Well, not everyone in the crowd

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  was born and raised in India but for the past decade or so had worked as ... musicals), as usual. If you live in an area with a large South Asian ... , the theater was packed. The last empty seat in the house went to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  .   ...arranged flowers, I got off the waitlist for an Ikebana ... with an Olympics dataset and learn data viz for the first time. My dream ...  and take some fun classes and do some fun things here in Boston. ...cooked

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  ended up getting drenched in an unexpected deluge of rain. Yes, you read ... picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for ... nothing else) that all MIT students live in dormitories for their entire

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  , unhappy with life as an unappreciated housekeeper, the neglected baby in my ... was leaving my home, not headed to it. In four weeks I had developed an ... interpretations of the world. As John Whitehorn writes in Education For Uncertainty

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  ’s sailboats in the foreground. (Click for larger versions.)   And me and Cory ... during my MEng, I’ve fallen hard in love with this city—Cambridge, then ... past Saturday, our first warm weekend that I’ve been in town, on a path

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  , wiki, blog, or webpage. Another option for the project was to engage in ... you an idea of what MIT projects could be like (at least for ... since 2001 (in fact, each of the past few years have broken records for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  in voice; a volunteer for MIT’s Violence Prevention and Response as a ... writer for MIT’s student newspaper, The Tech. I took a gap year in Cairo ... . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  turn of phrase used in an article last winter -- that MIT undergrads are ... in a suitcase and not unpacking everything else for a week. Unpacking ... So the presentation that I was making Photoshop slides for last time? I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  I conducted my first of ten meetings this fall in Hartford this week. I think the meeting went quite well; the ~250 people in attendance ... during the Q & A section that had me flummoxed. A young man in the front

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  ’t just go to for the food. But in all seriousness, this event is super fun ... We are very sentimental people. Not like the keeps-every-birthday-card-in ... -the-potential-value-of-a-random-reciept-sentimental-types. We’ve always kind of been like this, and it wasn’t a problem in high

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017