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• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  I begin this entry with a photo of the aftermath of one Saturday evening. Here, try this physics problem on for size. If I have a pumpkin ... chunks go in the radial direction when it crashes to the ground? Answer

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  -date on their classmates' developments. This summer, I was elected to a ... can be harder to figure out what you might be doing only a few years out of college. I hope this entry is a somewhat helpful introduction to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Very, Very Important News That title is written to tantalize your RSS readers.

  

  Hi folks, Today was the 8th day in a row of selection committee. Everyone is super tired, but we'll all get a bit of a break soon and we ... in the next few days; in the meantime I really need to say something

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 24, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  , a reference to Stonehenge. ... , classrooms, and labs radiate from here. Whatever you do, stay to the right when ... . (As viewed from a stationary point on the earth, the path of the sun
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Concourse?

  Concourse is a unique community of first-year students committed to learning in a small interactive group environment with dedicated teachers ... possibility of finding true happiness. Concourse has unique facilities to
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are GIRs?

   (GIRs). Basically, you must take two semesters of math, two semesters of physics, a semester of biology, a semester of chemistry, and a selection of courses from ... subjects to help you explore your anticipated major. MIT’s GIRs ensure that
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good ... my schedule was a bit tricky is that I'm applying to the Course 2 ... seems like a perfect fit, and I look forward to analyzing Snow Fall or

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  brings me to hall rush! Each hall in East Campus has a different culture ... convince the freshmen that their hall is a good place to live in. We bought ... Hi friends! I'm Jamie and I'm a new blogger. I'm a senior in 2A-4

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how ... applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don't just see them ... admissions selection process. During that process, we notice a lot of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  . As a double-major, I've generally had to take between 60 and 75 units ... , just to give you an idea how a few of my friends and I are spending our ... In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  's good to apply to a variety of schools at varying levels of selectivity to improve your chances of being admitted to and receiving aid from a US ... away with many good options and a way to finance it. Best wishes!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  Junior year was a milestone for me because it was the first time where I actually got to work with machine learning models. I just got some code to run on my computer for my UROP project this summer, which is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2020 Hacks Back

  

  As you probably know, we've taken to sending our acceptance letters out in little silver tubes. Every year we enclose something different. A few years ago, for example, we challenged students to hack their tubes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  the weekend to have such a terrible end to it - see Anna H. '14's post ... I wrote a blog post about how excited I was for CPW last week.  Other ... be different - but I didn't expect everything to be so weird.  It made

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  system into a photoluminescence imaging system to analyze the benefits of ... Vivian Dien Class of 2013 Materials Science and Engineering w/ a ... renewable energy is still something I want to pursue and taught me to always

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Harvard-MIT Student Debate on Pakistan this Friday

  

  Harvard and MIT have organized a panel discussion on Pakistan's current state and future prospects: Date: Friday, 2/8 Time: 6:00pm to 7:30pm Location: 4-270 There'll be four panelists, all of whom have a strong

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Intermission Summer job: just kickin' it. And working at Pixar, too.

  

  Sometimes taking a little time to recharge is really all you need. I ... you guys, though - watch for a pretty important entry coming up about ... month, they're releasing Ratatouille, which my mom never fails to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Reunion Weekend MIT alumni return to campus.

  

  . Instead, take this time to read up on a few MIT alumni that I have ... This past weekend, thousands of MIT alumni returned to campus to catch up and celebrate. Reunion Weekend is a very exciting time here! I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create a silly thread. I ... of decisions was ages ago (due to the fact that last week felt so very long). Sometimes quiet is good. A lot of the snow melted this past

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What is the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  Our MIT QuestBridge Supplement is a way for us to gather some ... MIT will be contacted directly about how to access the MIT QuestBridge Supplement. If you are a QuestBridge Finalist that did not rank MIT, you can