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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  a mechanical engineer, decided to address this issue by designing a ... has to go through an experience like mine, and, by recognizing injuries ... creating new things inspires others to create new things themselves, like MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  College Fair! v2.0

  

  from 8 to 10 and am excited to answer your questions. Stop by and say ... . I will, however, be at the computer tonight from 8:00PM EST to 10:00PM EST to answer all of your questions about MIT in gory detail. What

  • by Snively '11
  • March 25, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  We’re Linux! "Aha, Linux beats paper!"

  

  Congratulations to the future class of 2013! I'm looking forward to ... . And now, here's a cute little something to brighten your day ... video, Challenges at the Office, was produced by a alum friend of mine

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  accomplished, and by all that you aspire to do as your lives progress. For all of ... stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  We were all saddened by the news of Marilee Jones' resignation. In reacting, we must recognize and learn from two elements that may seem to be ... don't expect our applicants to be perfect, we do require them to be

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  camer-AHHHHH! redux

  

  about the door to my office. Stop by if you're ever in the area! ... Mitra always has snazzy photos on her blog (though I am sad to hear ... my last trip I took pictures of my Central Meetings and promised to put

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2004
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview process?

  may be contacted by an Educational Counselor (EC) if there's one ... application to contact you, so please monitor your inbox and respond promptly. Interviews are not a required part of the MIT application. While we try to
• FAQ / First-year application

  What should I do if I’m deferred?

  to "improve" your application, or redo/edit/modify your application. The only thing you need to do is submit the February Updates & Notes ... includes an opportunity for you to update us on anything important that has
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT recruit athletes?

  your sport by completing a recruitment form. Depending on your potential contribution to MIT's varsity athletics, they may choose to advocate for you in ... " which they may fill. Prospective athletes to MIT are subject to the same
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  to have no immediate members of the MIT community directly injured by ... about a community by how it reacts to a tragedy. As the news broke ... This was supposed to be a happy post. It was supposed to be one of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New ... the Spanish word that sounded closest to it. Hey, according to Matt ... her logic was that she would have time to hide it from me, figuring I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). As for the admit letter, it is unlikely to be ... 's early acceptance rate so low compared to other selective colleges?" Well, there are two factors at work here. First, we are committed to admitting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  yet (I'll get to it later, I'm about to go to sleep...), but basically ... Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS ... ...it's kind of pathetic, I suppose, that I just figured out how to do this. But

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  "Restistance is Fuschia"... Getting close to solving another puzzle (maybe "X ... a few more of my favorite puzzles of yore. But now, I must get back to ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  easy." And then when you get that problem done, you can say to yourself ... me, "Isn't MIT supposed to be super hard? How do you find time to have fun?" I think this is a very interesting question to pursue. So one

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  check in, watching older students smiling widely when they get to put ... 's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the ... tension of not-quite-capsizing, square dancing, the joy i get when working

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  premises, he argues that any attempt by a governing body to interfere with ... ’s benefit. He concludes by this logic that taxing citizens to promote social ... that (a - b) equals zero, which we divide by in line 5 to surreptitiously

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten ... , I’m essentially an American because I moved down to the States when I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  very impressive. But I have to admit - sometimes I wish we'd get ... someone has a little too much wine and gets up on stage and tries to ... In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  pumpkin. Time to make a stem! Get an assistant to gather a small blob of ... to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... anywhere else! If you’ve ever been to the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch before

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023