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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Call For Bloggers As promised, here's an entry that will explain this year's application process for admissions bloggers.

  

  welcome to apply. In the interest of full disclosure, however, you should ... link to your "portfolio" - in other words, your current blog. This will ... if you're an upperclassman). Let us know which dorm you get temped in

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  Test ("SAT 1") or the ACT Plus Writing. In addition, we require two SAT Subject Tests ("SAT 2s"): one in math (Level 1 or Level 2) and one in ... 're best prepared and best suited. If you have taken more than one test in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... ,000 in the GE / mtvU Ecocollege Challenge (www ... petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  Mission Log 3042007 It's 6 o clock in the morning, and I ask myself ... onto the floor below without awaking my roommate. I put my contacts in ... is leaving" hustle. "STOP!" yells the TSA officer. Everyone stops in

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  a whooping $6 in 26-100 were: Fantastic Planet Courtest of Wikipedia: The film depicts a future in which human beings, known as "Oms" (a ... in shape but ten times larger than humans, with blue skin, fanlike

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  the morning of November 19, 2006, in less than one minute. So Mitra asked me to blog an entry that she wrote in Zambia last night, and I ... she's in a third-world country. So I decided to finish up this entry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  means it's exactly one year to the day when I discovered I got in. In ... found out online this year, which in my opinion is far less exciting than ... it since we had turned in our apps. (When I was YOUR age, we didn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  we're both seniors, rather than get down to business, we goofed off in ... cup of coffee from Au Bon Pain in Kendall Square and drank it during the ... have never before been this prolific in a 9:00 AM lecture. Maybe I should

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  ' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB ... 's birthday, and I honestly had not had that much fun in a very long time. 5 ... interactive puzzle adventure that you do in teams where you go from room to room

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a shocking way, so I'll answer anyway. Look at yourself in the mirror -- there ... research for him for very little in the way of salary. So slave labor works

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  Kalamazoo College. You may also be interested in the other stories from The ... visiting colleges in the Northeast last year, Andrew N. Lazar had the kind of ... morning, a car pulled up and four young men dressed in black jumped out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... author. Morgan, the professor in charge of the lab, gets to be last author ... this week in addition to writing the paper and making figures; mostly I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  glass coverslips (yes, we use some high-tech tools in modern cell biology), but I can't go home yet because I have 7.31 at 3:00 in the Whitehead ... rejoice about an incident that happened yesterday. So I had a test today in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  So in Burton-Conner, you're allowed to paint your room under several ... really. This is what our room looked like the morning we moved in from our ... other things to do, and when I got back to the room around 12:30 in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  this curious flyer outside of the Athena cluster in building 24 (aka "a ... children, Matt is in Southeast Asia, and I don't think that either Spencer or ... . If any qualified man in the Boston area reading this would like to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the ... " in blatant stereotyping by creating this FAQ. Q. Are all MIT students ... . If we spent all our time studying, how would we have time to be in all

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  , in exchange for helping take down what's left of the wallpaper in her ... before term started. We painted all day, slept in the lounge so that we ... back in place the next day. We didn't know that if primer dries on the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  yet, each one of them rocked in a different way, kind of like a charity ... (supposedly) the world's third largest shark fin in its lobby. Thanks to Matt Mc ... time she crashed a bicycle in the mean streets of Boston, Ruth Miller was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  decided to stay here in Boston this summer which according to rumors is ... having a lot of fun, I'll also be interning at a consulting firm in Harvard Square and UROP-ing in the Biotechnology Process Engineering Center. The

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started ... grad dorms are pretty easy for me to forget. Participate in a UROP… or ... freshman year, the first one jointly being in Course 15 (Management) and 22

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024