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• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  a round of 10-hour psets, but turned out to be wildly effective during ... campus, where I developed a module for automatic query expansion based on ... all round. Back at MIT, I randomly decided to paint two murals on my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  Islands with me during spring break. Opened it on the beach a few times and ... caught up but happy about my progress. But went on to forget entirely about a 10-page term paper on Julius Caesar due this past Monday (the sort

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch our robot grow up! Grow robot grow!

  

  omniwheels on him, and gave him a battery + eeePc. He's just now learning to ... -ball-nomming beasty. http://twitter.com/c2bot Definitely be tuned in to the feed on ... important. I've been building a robot for a class this month and it's now

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  HS Juniors/Sophomores: Upcoming MIT Events MIT will have events with Yale and Brown Universities in Southern California and the Mid-Atlantic…

  

  Beginning this coming Sunday, April 26th, MIT will be going on the ... : brownmityale.org These meetings will be a great opportunity for high school sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  attempting to define it, here’s a concrete example. Suppose you draw two points on a sheet of paper. If you want to connect those two points ... everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  see that I too have grown. Here are a few things I learned on my own ...   ★ To think That one year ago, MIT said “Yes, you can go ... it’s been a whole year. Finals are over. First semester is done. Now

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Facebook. Because social networking makes you cool.

  

  linked to here on the blogs (although I wasn't a part of the "we", then ... Hey all, I'm sorry you haven't heard from me in a while; I'm working on passing the aforementioned 18.022 exam. Final in 8 hours, you

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  So where did I decide to watch the fireworks from? C! The MIT ... . Generic picture of the boats lined up on the Charles River for the fireworks ... two holidays that are celebrated with a vast amount of fireworks, why

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  it's Google, it very well might be. Now I'm off on a bus to Aix ... with cream on top, and a fried egg, if you're a lady. But I didn't get ... DID YOU KNOW? Super Smash Bros. Brawl is coming out for the Wii on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2014!

  

  instructions 2) I've setup a WeMo Switch connected to IFTTT so I can turn on my air conditioner with a text message from ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection: Day Three A beautiful snowy Sunday...

  

  It's a beautiful snowy Sunday in Cambridge, and we're hard at work selecting the Class of 2010. While working on a subcommittee with Jenny and ... have been nice to have been playing outside in the snow with them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  without a certain comforting character for those of us old enough to ... Avenue marketing firm, and was taken "on the road" for the better part of a ... visitors to MIT, “The Social Beaver” focuses on the community living and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  Caltech"). We landed in Baltimore close to 7 AM Saturday morning, after a ... . After orienting ourselves and collecting my luggage, we hopped on a shuttle to a Zipcar station where we were greeted by the Volkswagen Golf my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  early '80s, they were doing a big push to get a lot more girls to go into ... a Navy scholarship to help pay for college. From there, I got a degree ... about space exploration: "To me exploring space is just a natural

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  Jebby's so productive"[/caption] Anyway, I'm not going to do a full tour ... supposed to be Ultra Productive Study Session Day. Every two weeks, I make a ... and the unfortunate effects it can produce. I'm going to make a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man ... ones I once aspired to read. Not far away, there’s a path by the river ... the ways we plan to do more. We aren’t aligned on every particular but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  , it can take a week or more to complete all of these steps. The mail is ... application piece is mailed to the time that it appears on your tracking system ... everyone doing? Not too stressed out, I hope? While you're working on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  : Last year, my brother's second-grade class had a unit on Flat Stanley (if ... who get flattened and gets travel to a bunch of different places via ... Having a brother who's eleven years younger than you has its perks

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  My highest achievement at MIT.

  

    [caption id="attachment_104348" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Third to last day of the archery class I took for my final PE ... 's the closest I'll ever get to it.

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2024
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  MIT uses a holistic admissions process, so test scores are just one ... us better evaluate academic preparation. If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our testing requirements, please visit