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• Blog / MIT Life

  Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!

  

  'm not completely sold on the idea, but I did see this cow, and the artist ... . However, I did not wear a duck tape tuxedo to my prom. Maybe I'll go to the

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Wir fahren nach Berlin! Bullet holes in the cemetery walls, plus Liv Tyler.

  

  her conception, Liv did not find out the truth until she was 11. We ... , though not quite as crazy as they might have been if Germany had been

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  as physically possible, but apparently you're not. Lean more. Now ... .) More pictures (and special stunts) after the jump! We were not on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  brightest kids in the world on a single college campus means that not all of them will be #1 anymore. This is not Lake Wobegon -- not everybody gets ... . (Actually, I should say that it's really uncommon not to do that.) There

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.

  

  I've just finished assembling and sealing hundreds of packages with the rest of the admissions team. Not my favorite part of the job (I'm not the biggest fan of paper cuts) but it's rewarding in that it

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding Online Decisions A brief update.

  

  yesterday and they seem optimistic. Please note that it's not definite at this ... cycle (and the cycle-dependent status of the MyMIT database), we will not

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  are limited to 8% of the class, not 10%. There's other weird stuff in there (like only Harvard beat us in yield of mutual admits, not Yale

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Upcoming MIT Deadline January 1 is the Regular Action deadline.

  

  that have been submitted. Also, please note that you do not need to ... as possible. I encourage you not to wait until the very last moment to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to ... , like, needlepoint or something: So, just wondering--not for any reason

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Decisive Battle The one examining "Turkey vs. Spam" on the almost-literal level.

  

  . Not quite as environmentally-friendly, but probably a little more ... Thanksgiving everybody! I hope you enjoyed your turkey, or if you did not have a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  cards," don't ask why), but this year, the E-3 cards are not green but rather canary yellow! Okay, so this might not be so exciting to you, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  , not to one of its 5 schools. ------------------------ Zack Yang wrote ... . ------------------------ He-Who-Does-Not-Want-To-Be-Named wrote: "I got really bad scores in my SAT I. A 720 in Math is NOT MIT material. If I do get 750-800 in Math

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Getting MISTI-fied There's a loud boom coming from Lobby 10.

  

  discovered that not only was there the booming, there was FREE FOOD. Cue the long lines of students. MIT students do not pass up free food. So

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Trailer Our road trip will probably not parallel Jonathan's, although I ... 's pretty close to what I imagined the novel looking like. I'm not impressed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Auburn Street when a state trooper pulled them over for not displaying a ... . ``Obviously it's not built for the road,'' he said.   I don't know if they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a nutshell, we're not going to be able to admit anyone from the waitlist this year. Our yield was simply too high - unprecedented, as a matter of fact

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Another insane (in a good way) day! Got to MIT early; checked in with my fellow admissions peeps. Not bound to the Reg Desk today, I made the ... , the right people. Not that I know anything about this. What? What note

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 2

  

  about the students! Decisions are not yet final; the committee's ... message is, relax! College admissions is not the end of the world!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  that - but he wants to be able to prove this conjecture. "It's not easy to do," he says. Dr. Demaine is not a man to be easily defeated by a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  , guarantee admission? I think not. We admit people, not numbers or achievements.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005