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• Blog / MIT Life

  He Zigs, He Zags MIT's new video podcast.

  

  the cellphone ringtone competition and IAP. It's fun to watch Zig ... Production Services (AMPS) would love to hear your feedback about ZigZag, about ... feedback! What are your thoughts? Would you subscribe to and watch this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  Some of you may remember last year, when Caltech students came to ... decided to have a little fun with Caltech. You see, Caltech has this famous cannon, the Fleming Cannon (belonging to Fleming House, naturally). They

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Best. Hack. Ever. The title says it all.

  

  www.mitcannon.com Hats off, hacking community. Hats off. For the record, this is absolutely my favorite hack of all time... Amazing. -B P.S. I dedicate this to you. ;-)

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions are in the mail Decision letters are in the mail.

  

  At 2:52pm today, the postman arrived to take away the decision letters. Decisions will be posted tomorrow at decisions.mit.edu at 12 noon, Eastern Standard Time. In the meantime, Evie the dog wishes you the luck o

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.

  

  provides a bit of closure to an important part of the admissions cycle. It won't feel real until Mail Services comes to pick up the packages later today. Matt likes to blog a picture of the mail folks leaving with the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Indra Nooyi presentation A presentation from Indra Nooyi, President & Chief Financial Officer for PepsiCo.

  

  This afternoon I went to a talk on Diversity in Action by Indra Nooyi. She spoke at Sloan (MIT's school of management) as part of a series that will host the following speakers later this semester:

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  eerie, as I've never seen that before. But it's good to know that MIT ... knew that. I need to get back to it - more updates when there's something to report. Enjoy the rest of your weekends!

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  at Star Market. They cost $2.99 plus tax. Upon starting to address them ... affection--they all feature sentiments like: Anakin: "To a most powerful ... have my allegiance." C3PO: "To a splendid counterpart!" R2D2: "You can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I ... final proofs next week - and then it's off to the presses! I can't wait to ... that our office has ever produced. Bravo to everyone involved

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Superbowl Discuss.

  

  's going to win? And most importantly: who will have the best commercial?

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…

  

  summer programs. To that end, here is a further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors to consider. All of the ... /Mathematics/Engineering Program (HSHSP)Minority Introduction to Engineering & Science (MITES

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update The title says it all.

  

  the adventure. I just took a quick trip back to my room so I could grab ... other teams are still working on it! But it's so awesome to be working ... I knew, someone had shoved the phone into my hands to give the answer

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  Happy 2006, everyone! Before heading back to the office tomorrow ... stock market," according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The new ... Blog Squad, Technology Review Colleges using blogs to attract students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only ... . You would sort of think that kind of time would inspire me to study 5 ... calendar, which says that it's five days until Christmas and I deserve to be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to ... big screen in our floor lounge. Anyway, thanks to the apparent lack of ... time to do, including mural painting, knitting, and now... apparently

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Admitted Students A quick update.

  

  Beginning today, admitted students can log into their MyMIT portal for new content, including a Class of 2010 guestbook directory (post your picture!). And also, feel free to use this fresh comments space for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Check Is In The Mail As you know from Matt/Ben's blogs, the decisions are in the mail, or as they…

  

  decisions to bed. The weather here was so bad that nothing moved on Friday. As ... office) and will be making their way to your mailboxes accordingly. (For ... automatically begin to spaz as soon as you read this. Don't. Just wait and see

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Blogs A quick note on admissions blogging.

  

  applications of the year, I note that I'm getting a lot of new traffic to the ... non-student visitors to the blogs (including parents, MIT students & ... props to the only other admissions blogs I know of: first, the mawrmawr

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  Hahn 1999) of hardcore text, I thought you'd like to look at some ... polo game against Iona. I mean, it's kind of hard to take pictures at 1 ... will limit myself to 12 words in each caption. By the by, the entry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab space in the gorgeous new building, but it's taking longer to get the lab up and running than everyone thought it would, so I decided to come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005