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• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  session, I am asked a question like this: Is it true that MIT has the ... ; in fact, MIT is better than the national average1. However, this is a ... hair-pulling by even the brightest students. But in the rare cases of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  yourselves. In the past, the commenting system has been relatively simple ... from the general hubbub of the comments. The comments, in other words ... only those who don't have a Facebook account, but also those who would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/15/16, at 6:28PM ET

  

  .mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password. I recommend you do this ... I've stopped watching this sneezing puppy long enough to ... decisions online next Thursday, 12/15/16, at Tau Time (i.e. 6:28PM ET). To

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application now available Apply now at MyMIT.

  

  us will be scanned. I recommend that you consider things like staples and binding, and ability to be viewed in a 2-D environment, before ... in the Application Forms section of MyMIT with your materials. If you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  more you need to do. I assure you we will have your scores in plenty of ... have completed the processing of the materials submitted, I will post ... , it will be appropriate to send in an additional copy of this missing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  So here's a sneak peek at what I've been working on all summer... the new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1 ... guesswork out of what's in each section by providing drop down menus with

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not your stereotypical sorority girl Tonight is the first night of sorority recruitment!

  

  for you (in fact, I think 50% or more sorority women didn't see ... are nothing like what the media portrays. I'll try to dispel some popular (and untrue notions) a little later on. First of all, I should just

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  applications. Unfortunately, I missed another classic IAP event last night: the ... .70/2.007 robotics competition, 6.270 throws in an interesting twist: the robots must be autonomous. The competition is so popular, they hold it in the 1200

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... offered early admission to 685. Though they are all different in their own ... undergraduates already enrolled at MIT.  We [annotation note="I know this looks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... admission to 697. Though they are all different in their own way —  sailors ... enrolled at MIT.  We [annotation note="I know this looks like a large number

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  For the last five years, I have started this post with a jaunty list ... summer in Cambridge, it is still true that: my neighbor's adorable and ... prefrosh and Selam I have built a pandemic platform for lockdown

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a ... appointments who live in dorms alongside undergrads or grad students. (Maseeh, Ashdown, and iHouse also have Residential Scholars.) When Shannon came to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  It's been nearly two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and I ... at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the " ... time in the last eight years that we have not been able to go to our wait

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  Wikipedia, is when: On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with ... Newgrange and Maeshowe in that the sunlight passes through the mass of the ... is also the site of other activities, which, in that MIT way, manage to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  cool system that I think some of you might like. Ksplice is system for ... , Jeff has in the past used Ksplice to keep this server up, which many ... 's what Ted says in ZDNet's article: Top kernel developer and Linux

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  of the interdisciplinary nature of MIT. In 2005 MIT Professor Emeritus Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun ... unusual but relevant introduction to MIT, I highly recommend this video on

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  offered during overlapping time slots -- which one should I take? Don ... Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended for students interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because ... account! The contest was hosted by OnStar, GM’s in-vehicle operator, which ... Innovation & Design (EID), a class in the GEL program, together last fall

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  always has been) where I reside at MIT and where I spend most of my time of ... Tetazoo. Last spring, I joined Tetazoo on an adventure to Rumney, New ... on a rather painful hike in the snow. This camping trip was a little

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  not THAT bad. This craving is just strong enough to make you go off in ... treat that you could ever dream up was in this case, but one item ... it belongs in Plato’s theory of Forms; it exudes the very essence of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014