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  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to ... can be a difficult decision to receive, but trust me: it works out okay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  Professors," a trip to Six Flags New England, and Tech Night at the Pops. And today on this blog, I also begin a weeklong celebration of our seniors. I ... that I know who replied to my request for a profile =) As such, some non

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  hoped to meet you in, but since I’m already stuck in a staring contest ... dampened unease—like I’m watching the local television news on mute, a ... fight to outrun a faceless threat. It’s been challenging to feel creative

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  actually loved a ton! It was basically just a writing class on how to write ... campus I can definitely do a blog post on that too! When it comes to just what I did in my free time there was a ton of things to do. I was on TV

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while ... on puzzles for a while that night, and there were good puzzles! great ... happened, and it was okay, and there were a lot of new players and it was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at ... told me to not spend a dime on food, which I, sadly admit, did, and I saw ... to this place. I went on a UROP tour (Sign up early, they’re super cool

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  Shiny new computer Since my grad program gives a $1000 "educational allowance" to incoming students, I decided to apply that money to a new laptop ... depends on where you live. In MacGregor, it's fairly rare for a student to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train ... probably the 5am walk to the station; it sounds a little torturous/scary but

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  ABC has a new reality television show called The Scholar, which is a ... ultimate American prize. For the chance at a full ride to the college of ... , a prize that could be worth as much as $240,000. They will have to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  approach would be to just use a random number generator on each square meter ... wouldn’t be able to swim across it. so i crafted a boat, hopped on, and ... developing minecraft, notch (the creator) started working on a new game. it was

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a ... not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor ... am unlikely to see a castle built for me anytime soon!) While big

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  surprised by how quickly my students caught on to code. These were students ... , and a few even expressed interest in MIT. In addition to my pitch on MIT ... of a suitcase any more. Soon I’ll be on my way home to MIT, and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  -Eritrean Students’ Association, and we had our first transition of power to a new ... construction robot I work on for my UROP--more on that later!) attached to a ... Sarah A. ‘18 (who lives down the hall from me in New House 4) to an aerial

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably ... collaborated with MIT professors to improve their curricula and published a book ... derived with a diffusion equation which, according to Prof Mahajan, is a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  ="someone decided i should be a director. what?!"]new job[/annotation] and I was just ... ="Think of a mix of Audrey’s angsty vibes mixed with Cami’s willingness to call ... delusional confidence, audacity, and a healthy chip on my shoulder.  Does that

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  bring a new philanthropic challenge to MIT's living communities ... ideas down on the comments! I'm always looking for new things to explore ... 's working on a thesis right now, but the pre-finals frenzy (read: cramming

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had ... probably the simplest thing I ever had to do on a computer but hey! It worked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  air and sometimes I invite friends to chat on air or just to hang out in ... —it's a time where I'm forced to sit down, relax, and enjoy music. And you ... a radio show, such as having full access to the entire record library

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  all back with new entries. Cool. On the topic of blogs, does anyone ... 's going to be at least one team with a dozen or so admitted members of the ... week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  few hours ago. I found a place to live this January when I'll be ... after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of ... language lab, meeting with a fellow EC resident and software developer to put

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006