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• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  This is more of a mini-entry, a blogget if you will. I know that for a good portion of you, the pressure is on, as there's officially ... backs guys, if you've done your best walk away from it now. It's out of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack or Treat A time for tricks.

  

  To celebrate the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, MIT hackers left a special treat (or perhaps a trick) near the Great Dome. I saw the hack ... administrators) dressed up. Walking around campus, I spotted a member of the USS

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  was an extraordinary year across the admissions landscape, with some of ... schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  at least four entries that are in various stages of being writ. I don't have a whole ton of time for an awesome entry right now, but I do have some time to share some MIT funnies. These are examples of things that

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  Competition! MIT Technology Fair - a group of undergraduates dedicated to ... we are inviting YOU to be a part of it! THINK (Technology for Humanity

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  anecdote about my first encounter with technology or science. Most of my ... (gasp!) and spent the better part of a year not always understanding what ... ... Anyway, I had a lot of time to think about ways to spend my life that

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  case you didn't know, the GC is the guardian and gatekeeper of the ... ? Outside of your parents and teachers, your GC is one of the most important ... for you and your parents. Write letters of recommendation for you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  'm actually officially no longer a freshman (woo!). The amount of things I have to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I ... day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT TechTV: Incredible videos from the MIT community YouTube has nothing on us.

  

  of their Tech Video Showcase. Watch the videos and judge for yourself ... — http://techtv.mit.edu/file/31/ Most “MIT”: The Making of Mens et Manus

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Party!

  

  , which people later eat. It has other food, and bands, and two nights of ... , backed up by Campus Police. My good friend Erik '09 was the head of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Weather Machine We wish you were still here!

  

  course of writing this entry (and all I wrote about was something about a ... certification (I'm now a certified EMT in the state of Massachusetts, which makes

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  University of Zambia (UNZA) before we begin our trip to the community of Mwape

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  Happy holidays from the admissions office! I'll be leaving in a bit for a week of vacation (YES!) - back on January 2. I hope you all have ... it out. The requisite embarassing picture of yours truly. Marisa

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  Meet Edmund Jones, a member of the Admissions Office staff (and Sam's freshman year advisor) I ran into him yesterday in Lobby 7, snapped this ... with mother of pearl pickguard, ash body with maple neck and rosewood

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  to Yale.) And WAIT! This really is not just a rivalry of two schools, MIT is in the mix too. MIT has a long standing tradition of hacking the

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  you out of your reading chair and into an adventure, each applicant's folder is a story. When I'm "in the zone," I don't notice the monotony of

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  even told it at a Harvard party that we went to, with an audience of ... American Mathematical Society Journal, called Foolproof: A Sampling of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  ; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a sign that reads: "Mr. Bryan O." I wanted to take a picture of him and

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  ZigZag 10 A new episode of MIT's video podcast, hosted by me. And there's mariachi.

  

  Episode 10 of MIT's video podcast, ZigZag, has been released. It contains a piece about the annual Freshman Photograph, the Kendall Square Bio ... valedictorian). Anyway, "White & Nerdy" is a parody of "Ridin'" (Ridin' Dirty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  to the right, you'd see MIT and the Cambridge side of the river), and ... 's Museum of Science, which features a lightning show by the world's largest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006