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  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  Marilee Jones was featured in an online chat on TIME.com, following up on ... college for everyone in America. There really is a school for everybody. My ... you understand what characteristics they are looking for in order to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  come to a section about a student coming in for a mock college interview ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles ... down to the fact that we don't have room for every excellent student who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter two Week two of school away from school as I learn about and work on transportation…

  

  , eight hours in an office sort of fly by if you're enjoying what you ... trains and the sorts of performance aspects one would be concerned with in ... -functioning conference rooms used regularly for business purposes! There's a network of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  headquarters was located, and started pitching in. For about the next 48 hours, I ... JR explained to me, "We are looking for aid in writing a mystery most ... putting in roughly 40 hours of work a week for the past two weeks. And I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  TLDR: PLAY MY ACRONYM QUIZZZZ As a school best known by an acronym ... show up in my inbox and in conversations regularly, and even if I don't know the exact words that they stand for, I usually know what entities

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2025 and taking part in tradition

  

  an entire year straight! (I was about to Google "minutes in a year" but ...  (though, in his defense, he doesn't only use Spotify for his listening; more on ... had them on repeat while i was traveling in china but i love them so it

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 1, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  An Enigma Wrapped In A Riddle A prize will go to the first person to unwrap this mystery.

  

  Noah and said construction in not an ark. Good Luck! P.S. A prize will ... -time mathematician. John is my neighbor, and for the last few weeks he has been constructing this "structure" in his front yard. I know that many of you are

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pie Day at the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology the Institute Has The Finest Pastries on 3/14 at 1:59 PM ET in the year…

  

  Science in Food Technology. This food-centric program lasted for decades ... explanation of, and degree requirements for, a Bachelor’s of Science in Food ... taste for MIT's classes by enrolling in our foundational General Institute

  • by Ratatou-Ellie F. '28
  • March 6, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I ... field. I donned my Rooney England jersey that morning, in the hope that it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  fisherpeople in Maine to find responses that could be used to argue for a whale ... my podmates, a MechE major, disappeared for hours in the middle of a ... ="265"] Bert and his bros[/caption] In the quest for my perfect major, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  Before You Graduate", which varies a slightly by academic year (for example ... Simmons (I just moved, again), I noticed something floating in the air ... ? Woooo Sochi 2014! If you're interested in previous hacks, MIT hacks

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  ... "Things I Discovered About Myself as it Relates to the Artsy Stuff I Have in My Life...". But "Life as an Artist" has a better ring to it, don't you think?? lol As usual, my thoughts come out as bullet points so in the

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  that you cannot respond to emails in your inbox when I know for a fact ... a student didn't respond to an authority/higher-up we would be ruined ... note="An interdisciplinary major for computer science (6) and molecular

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  An Online Going-Away Card for Ben Jones Today is Ben Jones's last day at MIT. Comment here to wish him the best.

  

  the comments thread in this post to leave your best wishes for Ben as he ... fantastic new job (Vice President for Communications!) at Oberlin College. If ... in at least some small way. He created this community and made it what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head ... it felt elitist to speak in a code no one outside MIT could understand

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  Patricia McKillip (an author I've been curious about for awhile), and Uglies ... . (Free admission! If you're ever looking for something to do in San Fran ... rearranged it in their own personal way. It's just an awesome building with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  , 1 Megapixel." The plan is to initially roll out the computers in a little over a year to six large nations. Negroponte has identified China ... skeptics. People peppered Negroponte with questions in both English and

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

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  in my career? Bro, am I an adult??? How do I vote? How do I become ... decisions for me and suddenly I miss the innocence my parents had wrapped me in. At the same time, this new independence has been exhilarating. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship for future engineers Chance to win $2,000

  

  ? Want to be an engineer? Then consider applying for the 2008 Future ... Chapter website (ashraeboston.org). They are awarding 14 scholarships in the amount of $2000. The deadline is May 30, 2008. For more information: http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  overview in my last post. It’s an event that happens the weekend before ... that uses these answers in order to find a new answer. For example, if ... , and organize an event for thousands of people. To my knowledge, though

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020