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• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  of the votes from making it into the poll. The idea of outing the main ... on the updated version of his hack site, "only keep one instance of the ... overcome ("It would be entirely unethical of me to stuff a ballot box, or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  ), please do so ASAP! CPW is my favorite time of year, as I get to meet so ... 's where you'll find me over the course of the weekend... the events in bold ... registration desk on the second floor of the Student Center (La Sala). You all

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  The February 13 edition of Time Magazine had an interesting article ... keystroke away. There was one part of the article that made me feel a bit ... , "by the time your roommate is out of grad school, you've been promoted

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of 2003, the MIT News Office did a series of these articles called "Hometown ... MIT. Most of these students were those "normal students" people always

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  here's the thing: most of my MIT friends are currently in the ... to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current ... , but is it enough? should I be trying harder, given that the majority of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I made at the beginning of my freshmen fall. I run from the people I ... it's you. At the end of the day, you are the common thread in all of ... the pits of your stomach. And so you start to overcompensate for that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  never heard of anything worse. Just the idea of a virtual office hour ... . Ah, bless the liberation of burnout-born apathy! So I left it half done ... writing thingies. 11 out of 17 cases was okay because, y’know, the world is

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  as part of the admissions process. You can read about our revised ... discontinue the use of subject tests starting with the 2020-21 admissions cycle ... grades and coursework, are predictive of success in our challenging

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  (RA). Many of you may still have questions so I'm posting a quick entry ... EA but ran out of time. If you are retaking tests in December or ... sense of your chances of being admitted to MIT. However, in the last few

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  -cranked generators, and a few other circuitry elements. The purpose of this lesson was to learn about power distribution and to gain a sense of the how the ... small group discussions about online privacy and a range of other topics

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  Tomorrow is, yes, the First of May[?], which means those of you who ... ), I've prepared the following list of guidelines: Your username must ... nicknames of a sort for people, so consider whether you'd be comfortable being

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who ... end result? A HACK!! It was raised from the ceiling of Stata the night before the one-year memorial of Officer Sean Collier. It was such a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography ... member of the Theta Xi fraternity. Last Friday, with Rush winding down, we ... MIT with all sorts of misconceptions about fraternities. We're all

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  . Well - story of my life. At the turn of the new year, I posted a number of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to ... edged into those rare un-mathematical intervals of time. To start: I had

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  If you've visited the MIT campus you know that throughout much of the ... however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of ... across the room. There were looks of surprise, happiness, and even some

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have wondered where the rest of us were during IAP, if not building snowmen, solving brain-busting puzzles, and taking classes on the other side of the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  So...there's this Mystery Hunt thing...you might have heard of it. It's awesome. It's lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or ... tells me that there are 115 people!), and probably 1/4 or 1/3 of those are

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  telling you about my bitterness? Because it's an important part of my life. No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who ... of the year when life explodes in your face. Currently, I am in one of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal ... of admissions decision letters. Joanne writes: Having worked in the admissions office for a million years, currently serving as the director of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  write 6,000 words of blog entries on an 8-hour train ride, if you just ... the form of a McDonald's in Marseille, France. Seriously. As Samuel L ... of their sandwiches is called a Croque McDo, which I guess must be some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007