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  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  worried." "The New York Times is like the Yankees.  Lots of people hate ... unemployed college freshman."  And the best part of being a prufesssional riter ... famed statistician Nate Silver is one of them. Nate Silver needs no

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  my count) presidents of other colleges and universities - including ... anthem. Alison Richard (Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University), speaking ... Just got back from the inauguration of MIT's sixteenth president

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  life and the universe instead of vector cross products and tumor ... Fridays are sneaky. Theoretically, as the last day of the week and the only thing standing between you and two glorious days of freedom and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  Yesterday's New York Times had a nice piece about MIT alum Pat McGovern '59, Founder & Chairman of International Data Group (IDG) ("the ... -by-step book on how computers work, written by Edmund Berkeley. It was one of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  third floor of Building 36. To allow for these kinds of circumstances, MIT ... before the hour. On Wednesday, I had every intention of going to zumba, but two thirds of the way there I realized that I had forgotten to print

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  developed the strange habit of reading all the back issues of the Tech online. It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... similar amounts of laziness but fewer of my friends on campus), tons of fun

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  (and advocate for universal acceptance of) the “pset” standard, unless I ... The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... common unit of homework assigned here at MIT. Excellent, in-depth high

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  the life I could’ve lived it’s like one of those “what if” episodes

  

  University of Michigan (Umich). It’s not that I didn’t know about MIT ... weeks ago, my friends who went to the University of Michigan invited me to ... a common example is the University of Michigan lol"] definition

  • by Hala K. '29
  • April 12, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  exorbitant amounts of Chinese food, and watch a variety of different performers ... with the arrival of the eastern seaboard’s very own polar vortex, so the ... degrees Fahrenheit. For perspective, I saw a chart on the internet that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  exist, I can confirm). It is the one form of art where I am perfectly ... that music is one of the most relaxing things, ever. Whether you’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no particular order, of things we’ve been up to recently:  Studying for the GRE ... really liked a lot of the songs, and dance numbers. Memory was amazing, and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  out the sun over a path that included the states of Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. For the rest of ... Kresge Oval on MIT campus. The MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  the University of Cambridge for a change of pace. Now that I'm back ... write a math blog, Annoying Precision. I'm interested in a lot of ... what I know a lot about is math. I almost wrote one of my MIT essays

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  Institute of Technology, where she majors in mechanical engineering and minors ... institute. Her senior thesis is in the use of micro-electro-mechanical devises in tissue engineering. She also is editor-in-chief of the M

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  course of the day. I'll update this entry whenever there's something to ... stack of admit letters in my hands; it was sublime). I was on the team ... universe knows that something is up. Oh wait, something is: the letters are

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  nearing the tail end of your paperwork. If you're applying regular action ... of idealized MIT. The more I read, the more I learned, the more I ... of the world's technology research, with the world's brightest minds

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  and ponder the distance to the next star and the age of the universe ... Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Last week I, along with most of the admissions team, attended the IvyPlus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of-years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  that I don't want a job that comes out of a poli-sci degree, but instead ... just any degree and a passion for it. Part of me still feels weird not ... , but in sophomore/junior/early senior year of high school, I told

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... have been actively building up a portfolio of technically creative stuff ... scary and a lot to ask of a teen whose brain is not yet fully developed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019