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• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  , but also exhausting - I actually fell asleep while writing this last ... 're going to be on Haitian television. (!) I wish I brought something other ... people go without power. I should also mention that many people have told

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  students. I don't yet know what day we will notify students. We'll keep you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  To-Do List for Regular Action Applicants With the deadline a month away, there are things you need to be doing now.

  

  's blog. I hope you're having a great senior year so far!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  /01/08, you're doing it wrong. I recommend clicking submit before the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  we will notify students. I don't yet know what day we will notify

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Enigma Gold Star Winners! Don, tell them what they've won...

  

  To follow up on this entry... Thanks for playing Engima Wrapped In A Riddle! Don, tell them what they've won. Wow! I am impressed by how many of you met the challenge. Initially we had planned to only award one

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I don't know what to say. Today, President Susan Hockfield sent this message out to the MIT community: From: Susan Hockfield Subject: Tragedy at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  As you know, MIT is embarking on a mission to tackle the world's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to check out relating to this mission. First, there's a new episode of Zig

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  Ever find yourself sitting in lab, thinking "What in God's name am I doing? Does this research even matter?" Have no fear! Check out this list of the 20 Craziest Scientific Researches. Some of the Craziest

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  .edu domain (and, I might guess, those on rpi.edu and cornell.edu). Relatedly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  Perhaps the most interesting research is the work that surprises, startles, and really makes you think. On the train on the way back from a conference at Princeton, I read two articles in today's New York Times which

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

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  sites and predict a winner! I'll think long and hard and make my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  sense of how engineering practices differ around the world. (I'd like to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  to be! Here's some general tips and comments I have about UROP hunting that will hopefully make it seem less challenging. Note: I’m not going

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  This past semester I took Intro Psychology at MIT with Professor Gabrieli. He's an incredibly intelligent and engaging professor that has some of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  now, we remember how cool and artsy we thought it was. *m a x i m u m c r i n g e* But we also remember how fun it was to make this type of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  her omgomgomg-I’m-so-excited hand gesture. Then Allan did his omgomgomg-I

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  , things worked out. I asked when the gravity of it all sunk in. There were ... opportunities is an undercurrent of amazing people. “I made my best friends ever

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to ... technological innovation.  Not just to make money, but to change the world.  And I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016