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• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  admissions.  Even though I have observed many changes, including the transition ... -necessitated innovations like the now ubiquitous interactive virtual information sessions, I remain most interested in facilitating the reflection and investigation

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  up with decisions; apologies in advance!] Okay, it's 11pm and I haven ... I thought I'd take a tiny break to post a little something. I've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.

  

  Did any of you notice today was a square root day? I didn't, until I ... ." This is part of why I love MIT - people here actually appreciate this kind of joke. (In related news, Pi Day is only eleven days away. Get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  New Server As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server.

  

  (and much faster) server. You'll probably notice better performance in page rendering right away; commenting is still slower than I'd like, but a forthcoming software patch should (hopefully) fix that. I think the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  ... check it out! Let us know what you think, either in the comments section ... came up last semester over a lunch meeting at the Forbes Family Cafe in the Stata Center. I was chatting with the folks at Academic Media

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  hide no longer–I was in it for good, and I wasn’t going to stop. And that ... I don’t know how it started exactly–a nice lug of canvas here, a floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  yes, that's my math pset in the background - the math pset that I ought ... essentially live at Hayden Library, one of the few places on campus in which I ... Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... /25 (Thanksgiving). The calendar, I think, reflects the fact that MIT students really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Disappearing (or life goes on) .

  

  I feel like I owe it to those (few?) who've followed me closely these last few years to come back and say a quick and proper good bye. I ... finish them up in a timely fashion, and now it's just way too late to go

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  Last week, I used DC's subway/underground train system, called the Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  -on in the MIT community - so much so that I generally find out about ... my fellow freshmen and I when we arrived on campus in August, only to ... Because my roommate is in a sorority, she receives a whole slew of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  I, along with 25,000 other people, found myself in Golden Gate Park ... "thank you" statemets I have written in this entry, but I mean each and ... generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  whole thing got started. Laird, Tim, and I found ourselves in a room full ... gingerbread houses for their children to decorate in school the following day. My wife and two of her close friends whose children are in my son

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  influential in society," she said. "I want to do something for the world. I want ... prompted her to study hard and earn good grades. That hard work paid off in ... junior. Pounds will graduate from Crystal Lake South High School in June

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  You may track the progress of your application in the application portal. Materials submitted through sources other than the application ... MIT, and we'll check to see if it's been included in your application.
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  intense craving for home/family/my mom's food - none of which I'd had in ... into queen-size beds at night. I'm back in Boston now and missing Texas ... career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  is the first time in my life that I've participated in Lent. For the ... of chocolate. I bite in. Me: Oh crap. I'm not supposed to be eating ... happening lately. I get an invitation to interview at a school. I confirm. In

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2006 Day 1 Campus Preview Weekend has begun! [photos]

  

  of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Performances included ... many familiar faces! Mitra helps to check in one of the first students to arrive. Hundreds of families checked in during the first several hours of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  this blog in forever, I know you only took that picture on your second ... , it's such a cool class!" I was enrolled in 8.02, and I was very ... tested out of physics but not calc, I wasn't eligible to take the class in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  're not used in all exams, and actually, I think I use them more as an ... Today I am hijacking Laura's entry on tests, because a) it's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005