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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  , travel, do service work, or just recharge and have some fun. While that ... ) because there are research opportunities year-round, and we get to meet ... graphing calculator or Petri dish* and you can hear the distant sounds of

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  speak for themselves, and our friends over at CalTech have helped us out a ... impressively precise description of MIT's external IPs. Naturally, I saved and ... . On the other hand, it may reveal nothing and serve as nothing more than

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  grades. If we are missing your midyear grades, and they have not yet been processed, and we have a question about your academic performance, we will be ... come in, we will review them, and the decision will be reviewed if there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Freshman Application: Live on Monday The MIT Freshman Application will go live tomorrow (Monday) on MyMIT.

  

  Registration for an overnight visit at MIT and more... Here's this year ... contact your interviewer and set up an interview November 1: Deadline for ... interviewer and set up an interview January 1: Deadline for Regular Action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  Application Tracking System and what makes an application "complete." Let me try ... monitor the tracking system and make sure we have your application materials ... information. ...and now, I'm off to go see the Bollywood film Om Shanti Om

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.

  

  12 hours and counting until CPW. Here are some places where I'll be ... Course VI (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), 3:30pm, Friday ... , Saturday Activities Fair, 1-3pm, Saturday CPW Closing Remarks and A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  to say that I work for her, and despite her achievements, she's really down to earth and easy to talk to. Professors at MIT are not foreign to incredible distinction, and one of the best things I've enjoyed at MIT is that

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  honor society) social chair and a generous invitation from a biochemical ... and Shannon "Optimus Prime" '05 -- remember their engagement party last ... Star Wars trilogy, the Indiana Jones films, the Harry Potter films, and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  and (b) I can blog about it. (By the way - while I may write ... "Q.E.D." and then went back to kissing me. So... Q.E.D. (Cue laughter ... here, post 'em and I'll, er, ask my sources. More episodes to follow

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holmstrom, et al.

  

  to take in life, and how we should do things that we like, not necessarily things that we are expected to do, etc.... and then when he spoke ... ! Nice. Professor Holmstrom's economic research focuses on incentives and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Activities Midway Each year, MIT exhibits its 300+ student activities. Friday, I checked them out for you.

  

  recognizes and governs MIT's student groups. I love that students have so much ... , including Hillel, the Logs, the Bhangra Club, and OrigaMIT, but I did find the ... BEEF, and 75 other groups. Enjoy!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  and prevent cancer. [...] The project, which might end up with a ... with one another and with sequences in healthy tissue, it should be ... take his class) and his group on the Human Genome Project, perhaps your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  grades) note, and reconsider it as soon as we have received and reviewed ... in, we will review them, and the decision will be reviewed if there is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  , I had dinner at a Spanish restaurant, Iruna, and tonight, I had dinner ... trivia with Jeff and Chris (Prof. Morse to you). Sadly, we failed to win ... ") and Crowded House ("Don't Dream It's Over"), in addition to naming 5 of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  tracker (because I am crazy and put a really old tile on it) and saw it was ... airport, and have since heard nothing. Legend has it, the bottle is still ... place. Layers and layers have built up. I like how the less

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  , Sorority, and Independent Living Group) system. My house is called WILG ... called the fire station. The firefighters came and unfortunately sustained ... few weeks ago, a friend and I decided to figure out what had happened

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  decade-plus: I graduated from middle and high school, I got into MIT, and ... that the next time the Tiger Year arrives, it will be 2034 and I will be ... school and honestly, maybe Nicki Minaj will still be on the radio. The

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  yarn, and restocked the fridge. Though my physical surroundings are ... technique of choice is to delete files en mass and never look back. It is also ... clean note, type, close the app, and never look at the note again. This

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we couldn't accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  for the first time this year,[/annotation] and, as a person who is very new to puzzles, I am both very scared and very excited. This year's hunt ... Scientific Theories: Expanding Reality & You", and therefore it will start

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021