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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT football team completed its historic regular season with a 24-13 victory over ... -game undefeated regular season in MIT history. The Engineers captured their first
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Weather Machine We wish you were still here!

  

  certification (I'm now a certified EMT in the state of Massachusetts, which makes ... So supposedly, there's a weather machine that comes around every CPW ... , its timing was off by a week, but fortunately (for me, not for you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  Seattle, and many places in between (not to mention Puerto Rico and Hawaii). If you have registered for MyMIT, have replied to a letter/email we've sent, or otherwise affirmed your interest in MIT, you will receive an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... has a reputation for being stagnant or tense or squandered time, but it

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  , who was admitted to the class of 2015, is a professional yoyo-ist. Yoyo-er. The man has serious skills with a yoyo. He's already got plenty of ... be for the next few days and weeks. So though I've got a bunch of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pick My Halloween Costume! Mm, crowdsourcing.

  

  feel like finding a new costume. Fortunately, I already have a bunch of ... ' Guild). Unfortunately, I'm hosed and indecisive. Conveniently, I have a blog (and a penchant for adverbs). This calls for crowdsourcing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  have a *great* view from my window in lab. Until 9:57 AM: Finite element modelling of a new version of the device I'm working on in lab. 10:05 - 10 ... Student Center for a glazed stick. 11:25 - 12:54 PM: Party in lab where by

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk ... understand that this may be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk ... understand that this may be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk ... understand that this may be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day, Tau Time As the admissions decisions approach...

  

  on Pi Day, at Tau Time (that is tomorrow, March 14, at 6:28pm EDT ... , check out this video from Vi Hart: (Did you know that Vi Hart is Khan ... 60 Minutes?) What do you think?  Are you sold on Tau?  Or are you a Pi

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  knew it was somewhere in my bag and so I stood, flipping through a never ... . Ten people that stopped in their lives to help a disoriented, highly ... . Subconsciously, I've been feeling a lot of feelings. Sadness. Despair. Hopelessness

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  oftentimes embark on library crawls, during which I visit up to 3 libraries in 2 hours. You really should try one. (That is me.) Dewey is the ... minutes sitting, slouching, kneeling, and wiggling around in various chairs

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  left before 8pm), but in the end, everyone was matched. You have a host ... . Many of you will receive a call or email from your host in the next few ... to see many of you in just a few days! CPW Weather Watch: Thursday, 50

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script to help me keep track of ... realized that I was in the lower half of the distribution of blogs by various metrics, meaning I myself had been a bad blogger. I'll spare you the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  World Cup Challenge Results The answers and winners of the World CUp Challenge of MIT international admissions.

  

  the name of the country in each group from which MIT received the most freshman applications this past year in bold. Group A: Costa Rica, Ecuador ... The World Cup Challenge was a lot of fun! No one got a perfect score

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  the three day week that should have been ten days long is forthcoming. This puzzle is courtesy of my friend Evelyn, '07, Course 6. Prima Donna "How do I get to New Amsterdam?" "Just follow that road and don't be

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  We’re Linux! "Aha, Linux beats paper!"

  

  . And now, here's a cute little something to brighten your day. Maybe I'm a little crazy, but isn't that just too cute for words? :) The video, Challenges at the Office, was produced by a alum friend of mine

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  Today, MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, published a story with our current number of applications: 12,440. This represents a 9% increase over ... ... Guessers within half a percent either way [12378, 12502] were Anonymous (from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007