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• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  my eye on the most is ice climbing. If you want the technical ... answered with my pack and boots. We left Saturday evening to get to the MITOC ... , and some of my first ascents in ice. Hope you enjoy it! (take a close

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  available on MyMIT in January. On the Midyear Report, you will provide us with ... on your MyMIT account in January and should be completed as soon as ... . Should I send in a whole new version of my application, or all new essays

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  feeling rising in my mind that I've forgotten how to put in words. Fu ... familiar* Enhance it further: Oh my gosh! That's me! And the ... 'm in it. And as the Systems Integrator for my team section (Pink A

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  in place of my usual verbosity.    

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You On the eve of Decision Day (D-Day), I bring you three things that adds to…

  

  jealous of my life. ----- (3) Recently, there was a College Confidential

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Sabrosura! ...yeah so some variation of deliciousness/tastefulness

  

  to dress up for it!! (Me in my new red dress con mi novio; Photo

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  While I may lack Ben's ability to speak to the heart, Matt's wisdom, Yan's vocabulous wit, and Anna's inspirational eloquence, I can offer you a byte (or a few) from my bottomless cache of labyrinthine analogies

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  tears of frustration, they crystallized on my cheeks and shattered one by one against the concrete, like my heart at the mention of coats. I ... alleviate my rejection of conversational redundancy (but mostly because it's a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  Yesterday morning I was quite surprised and VERY excited to see a trio of my favorite MIT students featured prominently on an online magazine site that I visit daily called "The Root". The article was a feature

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  processing. The current status of your application is now shown on your MyMIT application tracking. MyMIT Application Tracking This is a good time for you ... considered for Early Action. If the tracking system on MyMIT indicates that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  Side note: Am I the only blogger who still uses a paper planner? Am I the only one in my programming class who takes notes on paper, not on a laptop?? Does anyone else still read books, or do you all have Kindles

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!

  

  18 is a fine number, especially when it counts years. It's an excellent age for wine, or so I'm told by the sommelier app on my phone. It's an excellent age for video games - Mortal Kombat was released 18 years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT Media Lab, which is great for me because it gives me an excuse to go visit what I brazenly call The Birthplace of All Things Good and Awesome (I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  most of the tour guides, several live in my house and I appreciate seeing their helpful faces at the end of my information sessions. The time had ... bridge on my way home. Well, I ran into her on Monday night and mentioned

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  ... fortuitous signage come back soon! One of my colleagues had a much

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  Haiti, but I'll do my best to try to summarize. We just got back from a ... though my feet are aching and my vocal chords nearly destroyed and I really ... out of the rubble, but his mother wasn't so lucky. "His wife, my mother

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  I love being at the most (a good thing since I spend most of my waking hours here – most of my sleeping is done when I'm on vacation =] ). It is ... even to explain, but I distinctly remember my first week real week here I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT goes APE. Not your average Sunday night.

  

  took both of my calculus finals. But on February 21st, the building was

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  In my continuing quest to obtain a teaching certificate through MIT's excellent STEP program, I am taking two teaching courses this semester. 11.125 focuses more on theory and 11.131 focuses on practical issues. For instance

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  MIT community each day. My personal favorites are the Doc Edgerton high

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010