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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  waitlisted students and transfer applicants are feeling a little left out. So here's a quick update. Waitlist It's still too early to know whether or ... letter, or a phone call. Keep us up to date all the way through May 1 and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... (here are a couple). And every new year, I find his musings to be just as

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few ... community involvement on our website via the blogs several years ago. But ... , and especially on Facebook, across a variety of groups maintained not by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  the hologram, artificial intelligence, "pharmacy on a chip," stop ... classmates a unique chance to gain valuable research experience and insight ... slipping into a lab coat. In high school I was fortunate enough to spend two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  order to have fashion diversity on a day-to-day basis. But that is ... back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my ... regardless, moving is a perennial part of my back-to-school experience, so this

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  , right now, writing a blog post on my too-high new house bed, with the kid ... solve this new reality. After about a week, I finally texted my friend to ... I’ve been thinking a lot about how I would want to structure this

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  given all of our supplies and an objective. We then had a month to build ... Who knows what course 6.270 is without having to look it up? Anybody? Anybody at all? 6.270 is a LEGO robot programming class that takes place

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  SAE team. (Once upon a time, I was on MIT's team.) Walking to the BART ... comic book store was a Half-Price Books, where I was able to add a few new ... . Nearly every single person on the tour stopped to take a photo of this sign

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Update The Waitlist Committee has finalized decisions and has emailed all waitlisted applicants.

  

  We are writing with a quick followup to Matt's recent entry. The ... waitlisted applicants. A brief overview: Of the 629 students currently on the waitlist, the committee has chosen to admit 35, to keep 64 on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  ’d like to tell you a little more about Cracked. Cracked is a student ... the scene. The table, first of all, had to be made. We used a roll of painters tape to build a flat-three-dimensional table in the middle of the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  tickets sell out quickly the closer one gets to Chinese New Year (this year ... ventured out on a weekend between classes. (This didn't afford much time to ... --out to the village/tourist resort. Coming back I found myself on a bus

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  planned out courseroad. I would have to find a new training environment and ... friends, find a new community and living group, and adjust to an entirely ... new group of students and professors, and have a chance to study and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new ... ninjas, but this takes ninja to a whole new level. Julie is a senior ... about hacking at MIT." Julie: "I've been looking to write a musical! If

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  a warranty on it that was close to expiring so I took it to Geek Squad ... gave me store credit to buy a new laptop. I'm now typing from my brand ... was able to get $150 back on my laptop because it had a student discount

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

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  am nowhere closer to having an answer. This Monday I put on a nice ... Wednesdays and Fridays I take a bus to the WGBH (PBS) offices and work on ... weird to be a senior. It feels weird to be a senior while excited

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  it. On the way, Hawkins '12 thought it would be a good idea to dare ... institute of technology went back to class for reals on February 3rd. Before ... calculations to derivate the coefficient of friction on complex surfaces and sum

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  's some orientation to be done. A quick blurb about what an RLAD is: he has ... some country of my choice to do astronomy research in a new cultural ... our new freshmen, Sarah '17, is amazing and cooked a few batches for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  completely new - seemed to last forever, but once I settled into a rhythm days ... a mountain, on a motorcycle - crutches strapped to the back. In the ... I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  MIT website: I'm an AFFILIATE now. No longer a student! Maybe that ... observed that "your last name* maps to a rare earth element whose compounds ... wandered around for a bit to calm my nerves. Finally, I walked into my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  who saw it and that we expected better from a website who claims to be ... deep down they really just want to study alone in their rooms and go on to be traders on Wall Street. I think the class of 2012 t-shirts say it

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009