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  Fall 2018 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live may the 4th be with you

  

  else. Either way, I wish you the best of luck wherever you go, and ... those of you who were admitted: welcome to MIT. For those who weren't: keep on trucking. I transferred, but if I hadn't, things would have been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  surrounding Briggs Field: Helicopter flyby: Thousands of people packed Briggs Field on a beautiful sunny day: Students who couldn't make the memorial service found other ways to pay their respects: Rest in peace

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  's worth of work into today and tomorrow because I'm going to SXSW on ... I learned on the first day of Stats is probably one of the most ... valuable insight on what kinds of experiences work best in VR. While I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  different ways. It's kind of a fun place, unless you happen to be under the ... with bittersweet. Trust me when I say that I deal with all kinds of insanity at that place on a daily basis. (I'm a lifeguard at a waterpark, for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  bin. I could have scored more if some nuts on the side of my robot had ... about the contest description on Bryan's blog. The four years at MIT are ... . Basically, this class was one of the reasons I came to MIT. Most (maybe all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  indicative of true MIT students. They’re the things that aren’t necessarily true of all MIT students, but are certainly not true of people anywhere else that I know of. They’re the kind of thing that serve as a dead

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  play on the MIT Alumni Club of Boston team. As I like to say in my ... While I was busily at work on your Campus Preview Weekend (April 7-10, register today on MyMIT!), I came across this article on the MIT Athletics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling ... support. people here are so painfully kind. within two months of staying here, i already feel indebted to nearly everyone on hall. when all is

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  burrito from Anna's Taqueria in the Student Center on my way home. My very ... from 10.302: Transport Processes. "There are two ways to look at this... let's do it the harder way." Still, it wasn't a day to remember. I didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  pretense about the amount of work that still had to be done on the trip, I ... under wraps until the end of the semester, it's safe to say that we're on ... I'll be honest—I had never really planned on going abroad during

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  on at MIT): 6. I'm in Europe because of 21F.782, which is a Spanish II ... ¡Buenos días! from Spain! While these festivities are going on at ... scope of a semester-long language course, which means 3 hours of class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  than a sledgehammer, its collective love of the song "The Way I Are" by ... worth the look on Roe's face when he walks in to a room full of 20 people ... 'm now a resident of Burton 1, and unfortunately for Snively will probably

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  ."]zonotopal[/annotation] tiling—a way to dissect the zonotope into pieces, each of which are a ... these lines on top of each other:Notice that when we read the colors of ... have a way that turns a series of wires into the reverse order, where we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  of Simmons, so he’s constantly on the run. The first time I tried to ... , and Celevator also has a strange habit of going all the way to the first ... . All three elevators have a board full of posters, and the floor

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  future, remember that: You should focus on taking care of yourself, your ... order first. On behalf of everyone at MIT Admissions, I want to reassure ... deprived thousands of  people of power and property across the American

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  , studying 2.001 for my final on Tuesday. For that final we get 4 pages of ... throughout the course of the day so come check in on me and see how I'm doing. ... This is it, finals are in two days. One of the things that scared me

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  students now have a whole bunch of stuff on their MyMIT portal, including ... A few updates for the Class of 2011... Tonight MIT students will be ... students around 6pm Eastern time, and working our way west until around 11pm

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  .03 (Ordinary Differential Equations): A bad grade on one of the midterms ... around the concepts, and I struggled to come out of the class with an A. On ... massive amounts of studying yield minimal return in terms of performance on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  was floating, ruminating on a series of fairly disjoint memories. It was ... , although very little in the way of concrete thought. Here are a few of those ... thickets of trees. Vast expanses of green, morning dew accumulating on

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  , no, I am not one of those people. Not just because I’m busy and ... simulations on an MIT-inspired neural network (i.e. after thinking about it for a few seconds in my brain), I deduced the entire plot of the film

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022