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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You Heard It Here First Short Skirt, Long Jacket

  

  Band Party Plus. Each year, they host a big concert in their dining hall ... Sleepwalkers My freshman year, the headlining band was Piebald. They went on to ... . Another big concert coming in April will be Cake and unnamed opening act

  • by Bryan
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  stayed in place despite its best efforts to escape. MIT's victory ... Oh look, how interesting. MIT seems to have won an Olympic gold medal at Torino. All photo credits go to Matt Peddie '09. A pretty nighttime

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Lunch

  

  and guests from 2:30 to 4pm on Thursday (May 12th) at Majerle's Grill. Majerle's has been named the "best lunch spot" in downtown Phoenix, and we are excited to provide their yummy lunch for the ISEF finalists and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  2,822 applications

  

  So, after two entries that seemed to relax people a bit, I do need to ... was also reported that we plan to take fewer students this year during the early action round than we did last year. In 2003 we admitted 438

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Weather Machine We wish you were still here!

  

  Maguire). I've been so busy sitting out in the sun/getting my official EMT certification (I'm now a certified EMT in the state of Massachusetts, which makes

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  Office to the Undergraduate Advising & Academic Programming (UAAP) office ... fewer questions about admission, we encourage you to start reading and ... folks are super-excited to help answer your questions as you transition to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  NIGHTMARISH THOUGHTS fear of technology

  

  back to Massachusetts Institute of Technology in less than 2 weeks. What ... Hello all, I interrupt the great back-to-school flow of these blogs to deliver a semi-personal, semi-existential rant. I am THIS close to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  , it will be appropriate to send in an additional copy of this missing ... more you need to do. I assure you we will have your scores in plenty of ... action. We do not expect to have finished processing these materials until

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham Allen, President of the Class of 1929

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  to stress. MIT is a difficult place - but you already knew that.  The ... 's okay.  You don't come to a school like MIT looking to coast through all ...  combination of classes, psets, UROPs, sports, and trying to maintain a healthy

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  Ansari X PRIZE, catapulting society to frontiers in space and other ... -5; this is their second stop in Boston this tour), Dave Matthews Band ... Thomas the week before, and Ludacris is in town tonight) Last entry, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  pixelated designs on my laptop to recreate in fabric. I couldn't stop. I started measuring time in units of how long it took me to knit a headband ... in neck trying to see who can outsmart whichever trashing algorithm we

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2021 taking on the legacy

  

  the grip Spotify Wrapped has on society is truly astounding. time to contribute to the buzz with another year of blogger wrapped! minutes spent ... listening to Spotify constantly. this is not true because i am at the lower

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  in Bedford, New Hampshire, home to inventor and FIRST founder Dean ... ...Heliport? Heliport? Did I read that correctly? Yes, Kamen has, in addition to a garage (for his cars), a heliport (for his two helicopters). In addition to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  . In an attempt to alleviate confusion, I sat down with my colleague Mc ... tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this ... message is this: there is no wrong way to fill out this section. Don't worry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  experienced them. I am so thankful to be in Gymnasium Untergriesbach, and this ... to say before I leave...In the words of the Governator Arnold ... -Germany Global Teaching Labs Program As I write this post, I am sitting in the teacher

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  was 14 weeks pregnant (and stopped in to use our aid station's restroom ... way the trees look from my dorm room and exactly how long it takes me to tie my shoes in the morning. There is no EXCUSE!" I have no excuse. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yet Another MIT 2010? Alex Doonesbury needs to choose a college.

  

  In the comic Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau, the character Alex ... cartoons indicate Alex will take a gap year, either to "consult for a nanofabrication start-up" in Bangalore, or "following around an influential Seattle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi from Cambridge

  

  time to put together, and I haven't been in front of a computer much ... -service restaurant in the Student Center serving Mexican cuisine. Once I'm back home

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 29, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT ... -game undefeated regular season in MIT history. The Engineers captured their first ... garnered a lot of press from coast to coast, with announcers pointing out