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• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  ), but rather the students who are the best matches for MIT.     ... its students, and we admit the best matches for MIT wherever they may ... ; we'll admit the best matches for MIT based on our process, regardless

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  everyone's... but mine. In mathspeak, for all MIT students not equal to Kate ... people who were on campus for Family Weekend last weekend. And not only ... here for what is now over nine weeks, the longest I've ever been away

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  anything I can play on piano at half-tempo will be no problem for an ... was the music for "All In Green Went My Love Riding," my final project for 21M.303: Writing in Tonal Forms 1. The class is traditionally taught

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  -expensive restaurant engineered for tourists. It was filled with Americans and played CNN ... loud, very grand church bells, then couldn't find anything for breakfast ... just over 15,700 ft (~4.8 km). Feyi joined us for the cable car ride

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  Kresge lawn playing ball, and a few minutes later we had formed teams for a ... . Harder than it seems--beanbags are not aerodynamic. But after playing for ... This weekend, in some order, I: 1. slept for twelve hours straight

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  ) light bulb; 12 to play with the iPad (sigh), a few hundred for the fanfare ... from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and ... rest of this worse. Before I get fired for writing a blog post

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I ... ",[/annotation] but for the purposes of this blog, I will not be worrying about this ... . An infinitesimal part of. As it turns out, for some reason, this is a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in ... for ending the evolving pandemic, an Institute-wide webinar on Thursday ... learning algorithms developed for language to predict SARS-CoV-2 mutation and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  friend Kristen made gingerbread houses for hall to decorate It's rainbow ... can have food I made meatloaf and Kristen made a fritata for ... ! 🖤🖤 Conversations about death are important but censored by society so thanks for enabling

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  . It's one of my favorite things ever. For more, watch the below MITnews ... . Bonus! While digging through old photos for this blog post, I found completely unrelated footage from one morning last October of me playing with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  'm almost there. I actually think I'll be ready for Monday *crosses fingers ... . Step 2, get really excited and head back inside for my camera. Step 3 ... , so I've got two more pictures for you, one from farther away and then

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  : Outline for Today's Lecture Oxidation Reactions of Alkenes ... 's the bottom line. Works for me. In other news, since I last posted, I ... them when we play. How about you guys? Who are your favorite characters

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

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18 ... years at MIT, I was always able to make time for the American Idol ... last two shows nearly started a war for control of the Conner 2 floor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  more to tell, but I have to go play a show at the middle east. Look for ... new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1 ... stuff you need to go dig through all the blogs for it. The new site will

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  candy, and playing puzzles when clouds obscure the view -- sounds like ... systems are found in binary star systems, so they looked for eclipsing ... Emily Levesque for more information) that is a great introduction. Shaye

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  already work for Admissions, so I wasn't subjected to such an interview. I ... ) Lex lives in a house called "Malkovich." Coming up with a name for a ... is that it's a play on the town Duxbury. Anyway, this is a long way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  annoying because I have to get out of bed for a morning meeting >< The ... discuss how we felt about this semester and plan for next semester to be ... plans for IAP and the spring semester, and talk about how their fall

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller ... food item for the denizens of East Campus. Tetazoo takes FACs extremely ... Much FAC," where we made personalized cakes for each of the ten halls of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  started the afternoon before the conference. After getting Indian food for lunch (all paid for by Questbridge), we set off to unload some stuff into ... weekend started to kick in. It was genuinely fun to meet the other Quest

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  Fun fact! Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo ... what do I do? I work on a brand new satellite mission planned for launch ... design task-- coming up with a strategy for sky coverage and modeling each

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007