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• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  with you, write a report, and submit it as part of your application. With ... be reviewed and added to your application when we receive it. Remember that our alumni interviewers are volunteers and have jobs, families, and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reality TV My former dormmate will appear on Queer Eye tonight.

  

  Science and Physics at MIT. After graduation, he took his skills to ... poker player and currently is an author. He has published three books and ... develop the analytical and communication skills he needed to write about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Next Big Mailing is out Choosing your email address, and more.

  

  ): they're the firstyear and Orientation folks. What does the NBM include ... final coursework and grades. Information from the ARC. A letter about the Communication Requirement and Freshman Essay Evaluation (FEE). The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  , talking to you, your parents, and more. After a ridiculously competitive ... -qualified applicants, because we truly believe in you. And, in the process, we grew very attached to you, and not just for what you'd bring to the MIT community, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones Sam is the funniest, though... BOTB and CPW Feedback.

  

  you can ask him. 4. We got to rock out to the Joneses: Ben Jones and ... the people who admitted you to college, rock out on stage, and then bid ... to see Tim the Beaver crowd surf and listen to Marilee on the

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  is Parafilm? Parafilm M is a unique self-sealing, moldable and flexible ... , impressive water vapor transport properties, and is resistant to many common ... thickness of all Parafilm products is 0.005 (127 um) and although we are often

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  fall out of the sky and WEBSIS doesn't let you pick your own grades, you ... sometimes this semester I wanted to throw my hands up and give up, but in my ... drink from that firehose and you get it done. I can say that this semester

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  scanning tunneling microscope that operates at very low temperatures and in ... they work. Vivek Venkatachalam, a Senior in Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has worked on this project for two and a half

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I ... the lab, participating in cheerleading recruitment and tryouts, and helping with Macgregor rush and in-house rush for my entry. Somehow I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike ... great weather and explore for a couple minutes. By the way, it's sunny, warm, and breezy 9 months a year in Boston, just like in Southern

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  . Unfortunately, I got back from a 60 mile bike journey throughout Vermont and New ... myself doing entertaining things (and about twenty pictures of my friends ... started biking. Well, now my laptop is toast and I'm having immense

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  cross-register with Harvard undergraduate courses, because MIT and Harvard ... MIT's schedule and Harvard's schedule are pretty much the same (MIT and ... between MIT and Harvard, as Harvard is contemplating moving to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  anxiety, it also brings many events and traditions celebrating the ... the festivities that Mitra did, and the "MIT celebrity"-served midnight breakfast, starring President Susan Hockfield and Dean of Admissions Marilee

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we ... unexpected growth. We adapt and continue onward. Some of you may feel happy to ... have complicated feelings; that’s okay too, and this is an open forum to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  of you who want to talk with us, shake it off, and get back up again. We ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, even ... blogs and our whole process. Remember that you will survive, even

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  major) and a CI-H(communications intensive class in humanities) that ... ’t have any final exams so I got to go back home early for the break and ... blogs and didn’t have too much content left in me. Next semester, I’ll be

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  supervisor, past mentors, and other people whose advice I value, I decided to ... (masters of science) students first, and you only officially become a Ph ... MIT’s early action round. And today, I’m [annotation note="it's due

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  sunlight subtly and softly trickles into the room just like it did all those ... over blue examination booklets, and stops at me scribbling away at my ... this feeling (that I can't quite pin down), and I say that I love it or

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  week on the blogs. *cue all of the sad faces and crying emojis* Writing on the blogs, sharing tidbits of our lives at MIT and hearing from you ... , that we realize just how much more there is left to be written about and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021