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• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  . Career plans: Wants to be a chemical engineer working to make breakthroughs ... during a class barbecue to celebrate the success of their woodworking ... , too, with a penchant for chess and crossword puzzles. He's headed to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  , check it out! Join the Facebook Group: Facebook is a great place to meet ... 'll find a bunch of stuff only available to admitted students, including ... guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact information securely with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... 'm special: I run around making plans and getting excited about a million ... everything I try to say sounds like it isn't adequate enough of a description

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to visit a variety of ... It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of ... pass that advice on in the posts to come. A visit to Boston to visit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  have a discussion about that applicant. Things are by consensus -- we ... discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare ... early to tell. After we finish with selection, there's still a lot of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.

  

  teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in our office by ... “sent” to MIT, not “processed,” by the Nov. 1 ... , email us to let us know. Make sure your MIT ID is in the email

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 31, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  members of the former convene together to celebrate a 10M concentration of ... show off their unique cultures, get to know you, and help you get a ... has a group, and many will be there to talk to you about what they do

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  more than a full year since we could make any in-person contributions to ... so far learning from it! Layal B. I wanted to make a mural that in some way represented a little bit of what makes MIT MIT, it was going to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  Snively! So, you want a fun activity to blog about (since we all know a good ... was likely to empty out during Spring Break so a pillow fight could help ... Snively?" So much for pretending to be a prefrosh. It turns out that the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  getting by on a netbook since, an Eee PC does not make for a good primary ... things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast ... I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  organized by the Alumni Association, which features a bustling community of ... with the Alumni Association to create externship listings that might be a ... (s), while others make their decision based off of a resume and cover letter

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• 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 ... lot about how to make a successful campaign, from contacting newspapers ... product that today’s young athletes need. I want to make sure that nobody

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  ; Computational Photography a.k.a. How To Make Photoshop) - The second lecture ... 'S STARTING TO LOOK LIKE A TRIPLE RAINBOW Prof. Durand: By the way, human color ... most awkward conversations I'd ever been...well, witness to. There's a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  given prior to this (animate with sand, animate a perspective shift, use ... get the opportunity to do a more prolonged project where we get to ... ’s really a great capstone to a truly amazing and fun class. 2. We went to a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  to a vocational high school to study information technology. There I took computer repair classes to prepare for the CompTIA A+ certfication ... business at home to raise money for college. Choosing a laptop for college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  employed by writing new blog posts, and I hope to do about one a week from ... -intensive, and thus require a set amount of writing. MIT makes taking four of these ... . Sometimes I'll consider a personal project I'm not attending to, or even a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and ... critically about the games I'm playing. I learned to view games not in a vacuum ... since you could often make nerdy references to really niche indie games or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  , can't just be normal or content. I always have to make a scene or be bothered by something. I always have to be just a little different. I always ... my opinion, and they work with me to make change. As I talked with my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... coming to MIT for a day and wanted to see how our research on the thermal ... , Professor Modell, and Morgan, a postdoc in my lab, had all headed over to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  You see, the thing about Halloween is that it gives you a reason to ... ? Go ahead. You wanna go to class as a princess? No problem. Go trick ... going to class as a princess. Let me explain. I'm a fan of the TV show

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013