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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  I've been trying to think of a good way to kick off the new ... consultant (Did you know that your name tag should always go on the right? Do ... our annual admissions retreat yesterday, an all-day event that took

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo terrasaurs, quetzals, and portal cows, oh my!

  

  appear that some hackers decided to turn the Infinite into a zoo, featuring ... student groups. I'm happy to report that -- arguably unlike regular zoos ... , and that none of them were harmed in the making of this hack.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  snowman experience below: (Note: I promise that I have a non-snow related ... snowstorm tomorrow? You know what this means….Battle #3!". Dan and I are in ... be made into snow fighting artillery. When I met up with Dan in Killian

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  '; this is the one I'm studying. It is a joint program between Course 4 ... MIT, fabricated a house featured in a MoMA exhibit last summer (there I ... might know from the handy banner above, I am a Course 4 (Architecture

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Review Photos from the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair.

  

  & Engineering Fair in Indianapolis, Indiana. On Thursday, we had a reception at ... , I went out to dinner with a dozen of the 20+ MIT 2010s at Intel ISEF ... ISEF is a huge fair, with nearly 1500 students from 40+ countries. On

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  a fistfight (I believe that's Feynman trying to knock out Packard ... , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a ... If you were in Boston sometime these past few nights and glanced

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  my class, the MIT Class of 2000, when we were admitted in 1996? [answer ... any information session are statistical. What is the average SAT score? How many students were admitted Early Action? Luckily, I can refer most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sam Videos Hurry, read this entry before Sam comes back from Maine and forces me to delete…

  

  ridiculous things my friends do. Here are two videos from freshman year that ... the hell the Biot-Savart equation is, and make you work harder on your MIT application than on any other. (And that last reason, my friends, is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  to experience things that we thought we only saw in movies. At 5 Wits ... were sad on the ride home that they wouldn't be returning for a while ... photos. Lastly, to everyone who lives in MA, I definitely recommend going

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that ... female fighter pilots. She flew the F/A-18 Hornet. At MIT, she is the ... (pronounced kohl-bair rə-por – the t is silent in both "Colbert" and "Report

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt in progress

  

  The Hunt is on! I'll be back to regular blogging, and application reading, and sleeping when it's over...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match between Germany and Costa Rica on the big screen with a huge and rowdy group of MIT students, and I'm looking forward to watching many of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  associate with Jimmy - aluminum cans in a plastic bag, clanking away. I cried ... and Senior House. Big Jimmy was a legendary figure, someone I only met briefly but who many of my friends counted as a confidant and friend. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  Sailing Pavilion is the oldest university sailing facility in the country ... On sunny days, I like to wander through MIT's gorgeous campus. Below are some images I've collected over the course of the month. Enjoy

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  , grades, and other examinations. Test scores are not the single factor that determines an admission decision (there is no single factor), but they do help ... MIT uses a holistic admissions process, so test scores are just one
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  be for the next few days and weeks. So though I've got a bunch of ... , who was admitted to the class of 2015, is a professional yoyo-ist. Yoyo ... ) account and his own channel, but that didn't stop him from filming a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Everybody’s Reading Applications!

  

  reading application files today at the Diesel Cafe, I realized that a woman ... school; she works in their admissions office. As it turns out, I had just ... (hence the low post count this week... luckily Mitra has a couple new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran into someone in vienna today… hi nisha

  

  [annotation note="the dark&stormy is an s-tier drink."].[/annotation] [annotation note="believe it or not, us being in vienna at the same time was completely coincidental."].[/annotation]

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  . I am never savvy about picking classes. Adam is disdainful, for ... what I had due this week: Monday -- nothing Tuesday -- 21A.260 paper on dualism in Western thought (7 pages), 21A.100 paper on cultural relativism

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  camer-AHHHHH! redux

  

  entry the other day, which I won't steal outright but will link to: a post ... Mitra always has snazzy photos on her blog (though I am sad to hear about her recent camera issues), while mine, so far, is just text. So on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2004