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• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... system. The room numbers make the most immediate sense, so I'll start ... shallow jerk. I heard a visitor say once that the people at MIT looked

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  competition's website or the MIT team's website. I thought I'd jot down a couple cool things that I learned while researching F1 cars and talking to the FSAE team members: - I had the chance to sit in this year's FSAE car

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  then move on. Right now, I'm taking Mechanical Engineering Tools (2 ... complex objects. Here's an example of an iPod that I drew on the second day ... program. I'll try to post an example of something made on SolidWorks soon

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... material unless the application did not sufficiently show who you are. I hope ... classroom. Some helpful extra recommendations I've seen have come from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be honest: I was bummed yesterday when Prof. Alan Guth '68 was again shut out ... widely seen as Nobel-caliber. So, coming off of that disappointment, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  I do. Well, the academic sort, anyway. ;-) Here's what I'm taking ... the class or a 100 in the class. I'm not terribly crazy about chemistry ... ) 8.01: Physics I (Classical Mechanics) Taught by one of many

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  geeks, and thus you might be asking yourself, if I went to MIT, what would I be doing for the big release? Let me tell you about some of the ... other things) the film 10 Things I Hate About You (yes, I can't believe it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the ... since I was an MIT sophomore. It had been performed annually between 1972 ... given that today, Friday, is Earth Day, I thought I'd take the opportunity

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  Welcome back to another tour – and I hope you're excited, because ... total! A lot of my friends ended up joining frats freshman year, so I ... (Back Bay) And with that, we wrap up our Tour de Frat! I hope everyone

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  enrolled at MIT.  We [annotation note="I know this looks like a large number ... decision has been made with care, and it is final. I know this can be a ... members of the Class of 2028. I'll be closing comments on this post to focus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  undergraduates already enrolled at MIT.  We [annotation note="I know this looks ... it is final. I know this can be a difficult decision to receive, but ... 2027. I'll be closing comments on this post to focus the conversations on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  enrolled at MIT.  We [annotation note="I know this looks like a large number ... decision has been made with care, and it is final. I know this can be a ... , congratulations to the newest members of the Class of 2026. I'll be closing comments

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  For the last six years now, I have started this post with a jaunty ... inside my house now. i love it, but fear for when it a w a k e n s a ... to be bloggers (i.e. no prospective students or students at other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  For the last five years, I have started this post with a jaunty list ... prefrosh and Selam I have built a pandemic platform for lockdown ... bloggers (i.e. no prospective students or students at other colleges). If

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skullhouse CPW chicken waffles fire smores volcano steak shake

  

  the best steak in the world, guaranteed or I'll give you my diploma ... the past few CPW's I also made time to go to some of my other personal ... Cream (2017) I finally finally finally got to try liquid nitrogen ice

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  , I sat down with one of them, Kevin, to talk about his room, which I ... fitting microcosm of the larger spectrum of things MIT tries to capture. I previously mentioned Kevin in my blog about snow antics. I built my first and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  't allowed to take photos of most of the things we saw. So I'll take it from ... , and exams together. So I have a feeling that the coming semester is ... rolls in in February, and I think we'll be ready to take it on--as a class

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  Life (he also oversees their Instagram and tumblr). Kellen and I are ... @MITStudents, which I myself follow and often interact with. He offered to send ... matter, what DSL is), which I wanted to post here. What do you know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  Silicon Valley and beyond. The MIT students (or should I say former MIT ... harmful effects of inflation. I can add a little more about each. Laura is ... to MIT in two years, I wish you all the best for the future

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  not use it for anything other than the leaderboard. A bug! I found a ... email admitfbookgame-dev [at] mit [dot] edu. I should also probably ... 's essentially where I post admissions updates, important blog entries, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011