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• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  to MIT, though, it's gotten significantly worse. Why didn't my mom ... tube, I still don't really believe it. So if you ask me right now what 14 ... , where it's okay that I wear t-shirts and flip flops in December. When it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  doesn't look like this: Well I may not go to see the fireworks today

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  matter) makes me want to throw up or strangle the writers, it doesn't do ... gaming the housing lottery. YOU DON'T NEED TO GAME THE GODDAMMED LOTTERY! YOU DON'T ACTUALLY CHOOSE YOUR PERMANENT LIVING GROUP UNTIL ORIENTATION

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Reunion Weekend MIT alumni return to campus.

  

  This past weekend, thousands of MIT alumni returned to campus to catch up and celebrate. Reunion Weekend is a very exciting time here! I actually was out of town this weekend, so I can't blog about the Reunions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Miscellaneous Admissions Office updates.

  

  A few quick things today: We have admitted 16 transfer students for the fall semester. More info and data on that when I know more.If you haven't gotten the NBM, please email the Orientation Office at orientation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Excitement On The Road Adventures in the Princeton Hospital ER.

  

  So Marilee and I spent much of last night in the ER at Princeton Hospital with a co-worker who ate some shellfish and puffed up nicely. (I won't tell you which co-worker unless he/she tells me I can. :-) But this was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  So I suck at life and haven't blogged in FOREVER. =( But! I'm making ... staffed by BC residents who make sure anyone who doesn't actually live here ... bike, and elliptical machine. But I couldn't remember the combo to unlock

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  for the Dewey furniture survey. (Clearly, I don't have enough work to do

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  professors teach? Call me naive, but I didn't even *think* about this at a top ... can't teach well!! They're brilliant, of course, in research ... , for the record, I don't believe that 80% of Caltech's professors can't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  . Happy birthday, Mitra! Don't eat too much cake; you have got a marathon to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  "yield"), we admitted 1474 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly ... haven't admitted anyone off the waitlist the past three years. What's up ... -- which I am cautiously optimistic we will -- the odds are that it won't be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  Required reading (from folks who are better writers than me): Ben Jones: It's More Than A Job Marilee Jones: Sending You My Best Also: Bryan Nance A Post For Parents and It's All About the Process, Bryan Don't

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  . I can't help but be excited. International selection. Choosing ... at the same time hopeful that the students we couldn't find room for at ... lower admission rate than the MIT freshman class. I don't know when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Maybe later

  

  "eat my words" because Boston weather is crazy. But I don't care. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I ... went to, who you recognize and know by name, but haven't ever really ... don't have to look at them or pause awkwardly to wave because they don't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  Well, as Laura said in her latest entry, tonight was the "telethon" event. I probably called fifty or more people, though many of those calls got me an answering machine or a "so-and-so isn't home." Regardless, it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Television MIT on TV.

  

  out (MythBusters is an awesome show!). This isn't the first time MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  'm still supposed to be leaving for Maine in 25 minutes. I haven't decided ... Adam is the baby of the family and his mommy won't let him drive to Maine ... Jennifer didn't go to the Rose Parade. Unless they like pain. And blinding

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  don't really feel like editing all the pictures I took...) First, the ... awesome questions but I can't answer all of them. When it comes to hacks ... still ran the risk of getting caught. I can't think of any students that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  class that doesn't connect with you.) This will not affect your chances at ... it." We don't need "proof" but it does sound like that letter would be ... .) ------------------------------------- Cheng wrote: "My guidance counselor tells me that she can't send out the

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005