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• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or dislike about it? How does it compare to (or stand out from) other viewbooks

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  date for documents to show up in the tracking system -- this means there ... to review all of these choices in the high school list from China ... . Due to the large number of applicants in China, we will not be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my ... happened to be in Cambridge for the weekend, called me up and invited me down

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  up, put them in the order that makes the most sense to read, and ... yourself stuck on, say, a college essay - maybe it's time to invest in some ... A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  comments, which I will respond to in an untimely fashion. I'll let you know ... /student interactions happened that I thought I could add to this entry. In 10 ... DID YOU KNOW? Kelly Clarkson is the first artist to have five top ten

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  in the Cambridge area.  The Red Line no longer delivers me to the ... probably continue to check in periodically (as long as I am permitted to do ... college counseling position in Providence, RI.  While I am no longer an

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  got to meet Colin (MIT '10) whose application I read back in the fall ... So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but I was fairly negligent in documenting my adventures in photos. Alas

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Leonard Nimoy. “That greeting originated in Boston,” Nimoy said, to cheers ... astronomer at Adler Planetarium in Chicago had put together a video to ... , “for music that is particularly meaningful to me.” He put his hands in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  eligible to win a prize in the competition. There were three main prizes ... that he's a good orator in addition to a fantastic blogger with his ... 'm looking forward to seeing even more talent in upcoming competitions. Hope to

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower ... free tickets to see the US women's soccer team play against China in NY ... To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... 's pretty inspiring to see all those folks from the MIT Instrumentation Lab ... celebration in the Boston Glove interviewed astronaut and MIT alumna Cady

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad ... traveled to Europe from the US by steamship Times in running events were ... his MIT education in marine engineering to run the very successful

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  understanding. I learned that when William Barton Rogers founded MIT in order to ... making moving forward. In this respect MIT intends for its future to be as ... opportunity to recognize and encourage a new generation of makers and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  .k.a. "Slugfest") hall in the East Campus dorm. According to the Slugfest wiki ... stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  exciting activities. In short, the Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  to no explanation. Feel free to argue in the comments...I'm ready to ... I famously have perfect taste, and with little to do over the summer, I'm left to just sit around and ponder endlessly, refining my taste

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does my transcript count as official?

  Transcripts must be sent in by your school counselor or another school representative to fulfill our requirements for an official ... entity. Our Transcripts page has information on how to have your counselor
• Blog / Hacks

  Invasion MIT! the long war of general jack

  

  battles just as we prepare to defeat our finals once again in this infinite ... As I walked up the steps to 77 Mass Ave this morning I was ready to ... . We will fight to brighten up MIT. Please accept this portrait made

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  and all settled in to my new room. Last year's non-existent view of the ... tonight, just to offset the danger of crying in favor of crinkly laugh lines ... who don't believe me when I say I'm 19 and instead ask to see parent

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Disaster Relief .

  

  I haven't been able to focus at all today. I didn't really understand ... When I describe Sichuan to people I always mention the food, and the ... one day to this place. If you feel compelled to help, I've been looking

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 13, 2008