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• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  having dinner in New York with Michel Gondry on MIT money - BUT this should ... (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you ... swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  Tomorrow, we will mail out the first of four batches of letters ... invitation to our meeting in your neck of the woods (haven't yet signed up for ... different member of our staff will visit different areas of the country. In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  all levels of preparation. I've known people whose schools didn't offer ... You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn ... ? Primarily biology? Chemistry? Mathematics? A little bit of everything? It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  read from his new book at Harvard University tonight.” My brain took ... look at one of them— I have no idea what happened next. The world ... burst into tears at once, frightened, certain of impending death

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  -Pants Subway Ride is a 7 year tradition in New York City. Hundreds of people meet ... wearing pants" or "I'm just really bad at poker." Usually New York is the ... ." Not wanting to check at school I simply ignored them and put them out of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  at some of some of the blogging highlights of Ben's 4 years (and 194 ... months, those little blogs, buried at the bottom of the page, were getting ... thousands of hits each week and requests to speak at national admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  elections meeting, an overnight shift, a trip to New York, another exam ... easy, in that order Record for number of grapes held in mouth at one time ... feel like I'm at Disneyland Song used as the opening credits of your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have ... , uncensored posts reveal a lot about MIT students, academics, and life at MIT
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  In the midst of a whirlwind-like semester I promise to eventually blog about, I had the chance to connect to Vaishnavi at one of the ... looking at things from another perspective: the policy side of that science

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  senior year of high school, saw that every blogger seemed to have at least ... -tech stoves. The instructor kept offering trainings, and to supply new materials ... seen the joy of at any other place.

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  calls, I was in general surprised at the lack of service in such a large ... to have Verizon at MIT). Cingular does seem to offer better rates on ... to be offering this $200 rebate promotion on a wide selection of phones

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  . At most of our meetings, we'll see somewhere in the 75-300 people range ... decline our offer of admission). Getting hungry, fruitlessly searching for ... over 600 people in attendance! Of our 70+ meetings that we'll so this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  Two weeks ago was our Spring Break at MIT, and the halls of Tetazoo ... .  We chose to present on the issue of dorm security here at MIT, and ... building needed to pass a "tilt test" with a water bottle at the top of it to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  something new about someone I already know. At MIT, most of the activities ... people at MIT who are working to change the plight of the world ... My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Spreading the word Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference…

  

  Yesterday, new father Ben and I did a presentation on blogging for the annual conference of the New England Association for College ... of admission at top colleges. The emergence of the "national student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 2, 2005
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  studying this or at least one. The Massachusetts Institute of Tea: This one ... : Law school. The Massachusetts Institute of Teenagers: A new pilot ... -Profit Universities. The Massachusetts Institute of Tribology: I don't know much about

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  For all of you that missed the Early Action deadline (November 1st), that's fine! I didn't apply EA either, mostly because of 1) procrastination 2) I was already feeling stressed with the [annotation note="University

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  currently over 1000 axolotls in captivity at the University of Kentucky ... enjoy and I hope you learn something new. One of the strangest, most ... well. Three summers ago, biologists from the University of the Andes in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  reached out for all sorts of reasons—to express concern, offer a monitor ... funny... During lecture for MAS.863 How To Make (Almost) Anything at the ... . In the process of him sitting in my chair, the seat flipped down and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  popular interest in the Higgs. A couple of weeks before, the New York Times ... some extra time at the end of class. Farhi sat on the desk with his hands ... accelerator, where tiny bits of matter smash into each other at terrifying

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015