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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  It is another fascinating semester here at the Institute, and I would like to share it with you. I'd also like to connect my experience to MIT academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2020 Hacks Back

  

  for the pictures)  I strongly suspect the Class of 2020 is trying to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  island sketch with a space for MIT’s new campus. I am glad we are in Cambridge, now, but I am sort of mad that the MIT Pirate's Certificate is a ... running out of space here in admissions, so I think I am going to start a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Holidays from MIT! Images of the Season

  

  you are, I wish you luck and happiness! Below our some cheerful holiday

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  I saw a tweet from MIT News late last week about how some researchers ... a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at the Lab back in June, but had no idea how it worked; at first, I didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  now here it is, as I found it at 3 AM Saturday morning, just 17 hours

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MITAdmissions.org: Now 100% More Clickable also, report any other bugs you have here

  

  you've noticed which I haven't, please let me know! Please note that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  who haven't said anything yet... If you were admitted to a college, I ... 't been granted extensions for financial aid reasons), I'm guessing most of ... the form. I know breaking up is hard to do, but not knowing is even

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  works, you can read a previous post I've written on the subject ... we are not able to offer admission this year. Through this process I ... this decision personally: if I have learned anything in this job, it is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  As I mentioned in my earlier post, I wanted to follow up with more ... successfully submit their online applications. I did mention that we would be ... the same stuff I just wrote above. In a few weeks, after we've conquered

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2012! how is blog formed

  

  warm! I spent last week on vacation on a lake with my family, where I ... you may know, I'm a football fanatic, and since there is no lockout ... Celtics…well… I'll miss you, Ray.   and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Decisions Released Today

  

  students are some of the very best MIT has to offer. I highly recommend

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21W.021 – “MIT 150: Inside, Live” Comics!

  

  I want to keep the intro to this post pretty short because the highlight here is two amazing comics made for my writing class last semester. 21W.021, also known as "MIT 150:Inside, Live",  is a CI-HW (Writing

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  validation is both necessary and appropriate. Where I think the use of ... matriculate. You might say “David, thanks for stating the obvious!” Yet I maintain that if it were obvious to everyone, then I wouldn’t need to say it

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  stuff? (Or, "OMG I sent my stuff before the deadline and it's not showing on MyMIT yet AM I DOOMED?") Let me respond to this series of ... get an email, and I'll post another entry so you can have any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  previously unknown to vegetables. I didn’t try pickles but I heard they didn ... different cheese. Vinegar was drinkable. It had flavor. I liked it. I wanted

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  foster all kinds of creative juice. I wanted to introduce one such example ... in a literary magazine in high school, I knew it was something I want ... a beautiful magazine at the end of the school year. I personally like

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  As some of you may know I am a big Patriots fan. Yesterday the ... - and in between flashbacks to the Superbowl-That-Didn't-Happen - I started thinking. Mostly to distract myself from the pain as I did this over

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  is on boundary layers and laminar external flows, neither of which I understand. Erons ’12, also Course 2 (“I major in Awesome.”), is taking a break ... present to the MIT community. Me, on the couch, taking this photo. I am

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography (whoops!), so here's something you should know: at MIT, I am a proud ... matters to you. To them, I say: please don't let the availability

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011