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• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  the easiest way to test divisibility by a number using automata. By ... applicants and students are quite a talented bunch. As such, I try to look out ... wanted to share it with you

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

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT -- MITES, RSI ... open exclusively to high school juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is ... Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) is a rigorous six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  Judging by the facebook group "I Wish I Were Your Derivative So I Could Lie Tangent To Your Curves!" with 42,000 members, everybody loves a ... ...here's one she loves to tell (copied from an article in the American

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Nothing beats a wet beaver! Except, in this case, a wet Iona. Pictures!

  

  will limit myself to 12 words in each caption. By the by, the entry ... Hahn 1999) of hardcore text, I thought you'd like to look at some ... polo game against Iona. I mean, it's kind of hard to take pictures at 1

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  limited availability relative to the significant demand, for the exceptional opportunities that await. Since our desire is to make the best possible admission decisions, we utilize a wide range of sources to help confirm and validate our

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  happened to be on a business trip to London so he decided to stop by. Anyway ... The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here ... tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  first day was, but also by how similar it felt to my first day as a ... comedian. The room is so large that he has to have a microphone. By the end ... I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  then actually get to spend a lot of time and resources working on it, and ... Have you ever wanted to feel happier and thought, hey, maybe if I eat ... "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  these commercials, I really don't know what to tell you except turn on the ... , however, is about making the switch from high school to college. If I had to make a shortlist of the changes that I made or had to make when

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Want a bike? Get a fairly decent bike at the Next House bike auction

  

  I'm done with the MCAT! Well, at least for now (we'll see once I get ... 3rd week of school, but you can usually get something ridable for ... can't wait until then, I suggest going to http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2006
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  being shaped by the Institute's ideals, but also to the rest of society ... have power to alter societal ethics, and stated that the College of ... . One rigorously publicized teach-in, ‘AI Can’t Fix This’, organized by MIT Students

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  Scientific Researches: «Blink-Free Photos, Guaranteed» (2006) Presented by N ... Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost ... . «Fragmentation of Rods by Cascading Cracks: Why Spaghetti Does Not Break in Half

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

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  to my Valentine who will get her Valentine's day kiss when I'm no ... infection rendering my voiceless and without a desire to eat. So I think my ... Medlink. Enter Medlink, Mike. Medlink Mike: What seems to be the problem

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about applying to college. Not just applying to MIT, but the entire college ... excitement, the same fears, the same pressures. I'd like to provide an outlet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  . I'm going to head home and finish unpacking. By the end of the week I ... morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my ... to New Hampshire to spend the holidays with my family. As I've posted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  ! Brother 3: Shut up! Mom: Do I need to get out Emily Post? If I had this ... So the annual no-problem-set-fest known as IAP really comes to an end ... the first day of classes is Tuesday, YIKES! But I didn't get through

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  , couples (yes, there is dating at MIT!) will get all dressed up and venture off to some of the many romantic restaurants and sites in Boston and ... MIT performance groups give students the opportunity to buy a serenade

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  up, move the fruit around with a utensil to get some air and space to ... open the food processor. You move the fruit around with a utensil to get ... even when you get all the way to the sorbet. Even as you change what you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  followed by a one-day sale the next day, to benefit the lab and its ... created by a team of about six artists. In this blog post, I want to convey ... is annual, put on by the MIT Glass Lab (the people who make the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  happy ending, she was able to get back to sleep later and woke up at a ... So I'm trying to figure out a matrix issue while studying 18.03 and, realizing I have very little idea how to do it, I let my eyes stray to the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008