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ZigZag Episode 5 MIT's podcast has a new episode.
can also view the first four episodes in the ZigZag archive. They would
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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe
This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got ... in 2019, I met someone very special. Her name is Kidist. You might have ... , in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a -
Blog / About Decisions
Early Action: Decisions Now Available An announcement.
MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the class of 2015 are now available at https://decisions.mit.edu. decisions.mit.edu You can log in ... to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions -
Blog / Admissions
Planned Mail Date: March 11
In case you missed it: We plan to send freshman admissions decision ... -wracking it can be to wait, but please give the mail a chance! If you don't get ... being put together in parallel with everything else going on. If the mail -
Blog / Admissions
Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome
Happy International Women's Day! I've talked before about how MIT ... in the United States. Over 200 of the top young women mathematicians in the country come together to compete for $49,000 in prize money -
Blog / Events
Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You On the eve of Decision Day (D-Day), I bring you three things that adds to…
of sucked, other than Sara Bareilles :p) ----- (2) I'll let Shaq speak for himself: "You wanna go to Harvard? I wanna go to MIT. You wanna study chemistry? I wanna study biology." So yeah, basically Shaq is -
Blog / Events
A Sweet Deal An offer I will not refuse.
I just got this email, and I'm excited. Any recommendations on who we should take out to dinner or where we should go out to eat? Mitra ... Professor Virk teaches 10.301 and I hear he's a fan of Nelly -
Blog / People & Identities
on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman
, sexual harassment. Like many, I’m heartbroken over the shootings that happened in Atlanta recently. I’m heartbroken as an American citizen, but also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia
in Cambodia, Zambia, India, Ghana, Honduras, and Brazil. Janet Li (Urban Planning) ’12 is blogging from Cambodia, where the D-Lab team ... composting bins and a low-cost biodigester under the guidance of an expert in -
Blog / Events
Camp Kesem! It's magical.
raising at least $400. In general, I'm not that great at fundraising because ... Exactly three weeks from today, I'll be done with my freshman year of ... day, when I shelve my textbooks and notes and give it up for three -
Blog / Athletics
Going for the Au An MIT alum will compete in Olympic skeleton.
Today, MIT alum Pat Antaki '84 will compete in the Olympics. He will compete in the luge-like, super-crazy event of skeleton, where he will race ... in the Dallas suburb of Plano, the Dallas Morning News has the full -
Blog / Academics & Research
2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)
, the 2005 Nobels in Economics were announced. Congrats to the two 2005 Nobel Laureates in Economics! -- and -- Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C ... -- he received his Masters and PhD from MIT in Course 18: Mathematics -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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