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  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  Dear Admitted, Current, and Former MIT Students, Now that the full MIT Class of 2021 has been assembled, it’s time to welcome them to the Institute! Over spring break (which…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  at/around mit i've been --

  

          i’ve been spending a lot of time away from mit. i’ve been going to lincoln laboratory in lexington once or twice a week (running experiments for my…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  I’m taking a somewhat lighter course load this semester. I signed up for the header software design class that assigns 15-hour-per-week psets, so I decided to compensate by only taking…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I’ve been chugging work from such a consistent, ever-so-slightly-bulging firehose for so long that this fact surprises me.…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  “It’s not just a working tool. It’s a thinking tool!” pronounced the award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the Festival of Learning Hackathon. Snipmap’s slogan can…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2021 are now available at     > > > decisions.mit.edu < < <      You can log in using…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! CELEBRATE! BE HAPPY!      

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would…

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students. For those of you who fall…

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my senior year of high school. I’d tell myself not to worry about college admissions. I was a…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  How many biological engineers does it take to make a motorized butterfly that chugs along the top of a giant golden cardboard stag head?     On Saturday, February 25,…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics. Michelle has already written a lovely post about Course 14 (economics); I want to also talk a…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  A couple of months ago I got an email saying that Leslie Jones (from SNL and Ghostbusters and others) was doing a show at MIT and that tickets were being…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  MIT is really cool. MIT has a glassblowing class. I took the glassblowing class over IAP. It was really cool (wait actually it was really hot lol). This blog post…

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Not all heroes wear capes – but some carry tubes. 2021s are happening

  

        MIT Regular Action decisions will be available online next week, on Tuesday, March 14 at 6:28 PM Eastern Time. Next week, when decisions are made available, you…

  • by Riri Williams '20
  • March 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  This IAP was my first time ever outside of the United States! El Mirador del Valle–the most beautiful view of Toledo. Photo credit: Rachel Lily Terry, the amazing photographer of…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  MIT classes are divided up into units. The average class is 12 units. The average MIT student takes four classes per semester, so usually around 48 units. Still, imposter syndrome…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  Wow! It’s been a while since my last blag. I couldn’t blag during IAP for some logistical reasons, and then the start of the semester was crazy + some other…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i’ve been a huge fan…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  In a public high school with about 700 people per class, there was barely enough room to walk in the hallways, let alone room for much creativity. Therefore, I was…

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017