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  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  still require you to submit the application by the normal deadline, which ... important step. If your EC has not gotten back to you, and it has been a long ... until we post a blog entry saying that we have processed all materials. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Ready for CPW Are you?

  

  , happy travels, see you this weekend! Make sure to swing by Burton ... Costco is officially out of hamburgers, UPS is making 5 trips a day ... , unfortunately, I wasn't assigned a prefrosh this year. :( By the way, Mikey just

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to ... ] alone, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to construct a roadmap of ... explicitly designed as such, I like to use CourseRoad as a quasi-MIT simulator

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago ... 'd say, "Marge, I have a yen to travel." And Marge would agree instantly ... bashed in by the Big Rock Tribe." Thus begins a wonderful book by Dave

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  hadn't ever used a mill or lathe.  I wasn't sure what it meant to tap a ... and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of ... and intensity, and it's intimidating to be told that by the end of this

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  they will be asked for very specific information about you to make sure ... make this process a very personal one (our application, the blogs, the ... 't need to tell you that MIT is very different from all other schools. A

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  (sometimes) funny. A few months ago I decided I wanted to make one for the ... to scripts, a free hosting service operated by MIT students for the MIT ... , before it was bought and subverted by Buzzfeed, was a truly delightful

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  , this class was so fun! 2.008 How to Make A Thing Many Many Times In How ... to! We really had to think about how each step of making a thing can be easily repeated. At the end of the class, we had to make five tens of a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  [by Joan Horvath '81] "What do you DO all day?" There's a certain ... likely to be, or perhaps a sense that maybe it's best not to know. As for ... place called a library to get information. It was, of course, uphill both

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave; this can be as simple as making sure a toilet doesn't overflow or as complex as making a self-driving car follow a set path. 6

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... Make a 100 layer crepe cake Buy some semi-temporary tattoo ink and ... backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a ... excited about CPW! There are far too many events for a single person to attend without the aid of a time machine, so to jump on the blogger

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  first single off their new upcoming album (to be released in October). A ... goes to show that MIT students are all about making things happen. It ... audio is all a cappella sung by the Logs, and was recorded and edited by

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  courthouse. Not very impressive, is it? Every guest had to pass through a ... Saturday at the Moakley Courthouse in Boston. The event was a smashing ... . The roof of the cylinder lobby ring area. A jazz band played for the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Fall Hits MIT In other words: Kate dumps all the pictures she's been meaning to post.

  

  . I'm planning to write a blog post about the Food Coop later this week ... their own pumpkins, so... I mean, wouldn't you make a pumpkin snowman if ... to fRobert '13, seems to have adopted my room as a second home, and my

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  , though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... conflated, it's hard to translate our professional skills to make them legible to a lay audience. I don't operate heavy machinery or conduct

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  's mission to make the world a better place Collaborative and cooperative ... short by a writer I admire to warm up my voice. If you can’t think of ... hopes and dreams? Do you have the initiative and courage to make them

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  ):   Blogger: Me First song listened to in 2018: "m.A.A.d city" by ... year I began listening to podcasts a lot, so maybe I have just been ... ; Blogger: Afeefah First song listened to in 2018: "Young" by The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  away from other people. It's ok to have a jam session all by yourself. It's ok to get a table for one. Make time for self-care. It goes a long way ... . Call up a family member or a friend. Go on a walk. Make yourself a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP ... I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few ... phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008