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• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  .) What should I do now? Should I send in extra materials? The only thing ... . Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all new essays ... additional tests in December or January, you can include MIT as a score

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alaska Where I am right now.

  

  I have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in Alaska. Not because it's cold or anything, just because it's a change of pace. Your thoughts on Alaska are welcomed.

  • by Snively '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  in my closet until I got annoyed at the exposed screws; I’m not sure if ... right wall. This door leads to 335s, the room I lived in during my first ... soon as it is empty. You can barely see it in this photo, but this room

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  hope in some small way I might have touched theirs. ... Almost three years ago, I wrote an entry which was very special to me, talking about two people at MIT who had touched many lives. I entitled the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  /250/600. * I get lots of questions along the lines of, "In my country ... very, very competitive. I can tell you from experience that making the decisions on international students is very, very difficult. I can also tell

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

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  sponsored a Pi Day Celebration of sorts. This was the email I received advertising the event.   This Wednesday, 3/14 at 5pm in room 2-102, the UMA is celebrating our favorite constant in style with the following

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  . Ho was named Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1996, and was the recipient of a Presidential Medal in 2001." I will post photographs of the poster session once I can steal them from the MIT News Office. I know for a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  There is such a thing as a free event Collegefest is going on this weekend, go get yourself some free junk!

  

  Another busy week of classes has come to end! To celebrate, I went with a few friends to the Collegefest in Hynes Convention Center (it ... Advantage Card and $10 if you don't. Anyway, if you're interested in getting a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  ! (for concerned parents, I can pretty much guarantee you there will be no lightning sparks involved in the playing of music, though it's totally ... the people I polled about CPW, the one event they said meant more than

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I ... , where I had come up with the great idea that unpacking everything I owned ... was currently in a state of 1.2 class squalor. That warning was all I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  ." is from a musical written by MIT students that I performed in. The ... semester: Blogging This. French House Cooking I live in French House, one ... cooking team. This means that, every Friday, I show up in the kitchen at 4pm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  of higher learning and crawled out of their rooms to stand in awe of the hack's serene majesty. Naturally, I was no exception. In spite of ... , hackers erected a giant statue of Athena, the patron goddess of wisdom, in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is 10 times the combined weight of all the humans in the world. Confused ... vacation in Scotland. From a train window, they saw a black sheep in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  those has got to go. I will probably keep drumming if I make it in ... It was as bad as I suspected it would be. Turns out I have 5 hasses ... interest in learning how to make forceful arguments in written form. Studies

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  be turned in on that same day. If I start sounding unintelligible, it ... Two weeks ago, my life was studying. On three consecutive days, I had ... .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  ; I know a few friends who have never seen snow in such amounts, let ... instance, I was lucky to get one or two of them in a given year, presumably ... conditions here in Cambridge. The good news is there's not much that you can

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had ... with the sharp point of an axe (hey, can't blame it. I don't either). So ... A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  it is final. I know this can be a difficult decision to receive. Take a ... available at > > > decisions.mit.edu < < < You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  .mit.edu < < < You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim ... before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. 6519 students applied for early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I, Robot "Turn it, leave it, stop- format it. Technologic." IAP Robotics competitions wrap up.

  

  .370: Robocraft Now the one I'm most familiar with is Robocraft since my roommate ... strategy (hopefully those extra hours will pay off). So I entered 26-100 after exiting lab and found the lecture hall in a standing room only

  • by Bryan
  • February 2, 2006