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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood ... admitted. I've responded to each email with a slightly different version of the same answer, because it's the only answer I have to offer. And here

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  addition to sending out admissions decisions via postal mail, also release ... much to add beyond what you've already read elsewhere, but I do want to strongly encourage you to use the verification functionality at decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  I'm flying to San Francisco for the long weekend -- hope you kids in ... !! "Pulse: Waves From the Motherland" is a demonstration of the extent to ... having a book signing to promote his latest book "I Hope They Serve Beer In

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  the new car smell. My first leg of the trip brought me to Lawrence, MA ... Humanity. The two tasks for the day was to remove from siding from the ... opted to paint. Over lunch, we were approached by a nice old man who asked

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  that I need to have written by tomorrow, I spent the afternoon in the ... Princess Leia" and "When You're Good to Jabba" and "City on a Cloud" and "One ... to see The Aristocrats at LSC next weekend, I'm afraid that this may

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  It is clear to me that I COULD NEVER WRITE ENOUGH ABOUT THE ... to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For this entry do you mind if we don't discuss applications? I need to switch

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is really domestic. The other day, our GRT, Chris, took her to Target. When ... putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all ... absolute perfect answer to this question. My freshman year, I went to Sigma ... 's nearly impossible to come up with just one distinguishing interest, habit

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel, referred to by some as one of the "Seven Wonders of the Modern World". It's certainly interesting to travel

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ this weekend, and enlisted me to help organize. My main contribution ... . Had I first gone to Party City, I might have realized that all the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if ... ). First and definitely foremost. I like to make lists. And spreadsheets. And

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Of the 29 Clark medalists to date

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More CPW Pix

  

  I'll start off by linking to some of your photos: Anthony et al ... , as we finally get to put the face with the application. Sometimes, it ... -awesome)! It's also a time to see some folks we haven't seen in a while. It was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  write moving your mail closer and closer to your mailbox. We have mailed ... over the phone to the applicant only. People have asked about the ... of the early pool, I must say just how difficult it was to narrow it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  . Yesterday was also the deadline to schedule the early action interview. What should you do if you missed it? Well, obviously, you first need to know who ... .253.3400) and we can tell you who that person is. Also, you need to contact that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  confident to face the world, knowing my strengths and weaknesses a bit better ... of thing much more now! I tried to do research really hard. I grinded, and developed, but I struggled. I am trying to finish the projects I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... , currently one minute early! currently listening to: a baby crying (nothing ... Bureau as part of the Midwest, seems much more suited to the moniker

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  orientation[/annotation] was to write a letter to our future selves with FutureMe, to be delivered at the start of the fall semester. That reminded me of ... middle school self had sent a letter to their senior year self, making some

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  path to nor desire for avoidance. [annotation note="At apparently one of the worst times in American history to do so."]I've started doing ... undergraduate research, also what this happens to be about."]UROP[/annotation] at

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... parents used to drive me [annotation note="bless them, it’s not an easy round trip to do in a single day"]down and back[/annotation] when I first

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025