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  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now ... , 19,020 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2020. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1,485 students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  on Elizabeth's "Pi-nal Countdown" blog post: Courtesy of my ... Yes, I'll admit that when I first wrote "Pi(e)", I thought of π times ... thought I'd put up a post that collects some of the best pi(e) references

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry. This week, I'll start off with one of my most popular classes, 2.007, Design and Manufacturing I. The basic goal of the class is to design and

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases ... I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  built on top of soil. It’d be a bad look if your newly constructed home ... software. One of these, and the one we’re focusing on in this class, is called Revit. To get a grasp of it, on the first day of class, our

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  picture of me taken on the day my parents brought me home from the hospital ... couple of emails later I had a UROP, working as a technician on a fleet of ... relying on one larger vehicle to do it on its own. The focus of the project

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  on the prodding of a few freshers, I found that I didn't have to live ... -essential employees I said my final goodbyes, hopped on a plane to Canada and shipped off to a land of free healthcare, fizzy lemonade and double decker buses

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  When it comes to MIT you can put everything you do into one of two categories "for classes" or "in the spirit of having fun". While the two aren ... fun?   FIRST SEMESTER   (Panoramic view of MIT from ESG

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  first case of robot hazing on the campus. Last fall, during "Rush Week," a ... Onion: MIT Fraternity Accused Of Robot Hazing April 12, 2006 | Issue 42: 15 CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  row way on the other end of the room. I want to interject here and say ... next to the Page lab on the fourth floor of the Whitehead Institute, so I ... end is on the outside of the cell and the anime group end is on the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  I am not a fan of icebreakers. It already takes a not-insignificant amount of energy for me to psych myself up enough to interact with a large group of people—especially people I don't know. And if, on top of that, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  . And so one of my goals this year is to work on decision making. As the ... shuttle, race a car, finance a project based on limited data in the face of ... did I decide to direct a play this fall on top of a bazillion other

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Testing the Waters There comes a time in every man's life when he has to make a choice.…

  

  worries; at the beginning of summer, MIT will send you a booklet on all the ... then rank your choices based on that and what you've seen of them, at ... 24 hours I finished two problem sets, read four articles (one of which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard ... actually solved any of the questions on the last page. Honestly, it was bad ... SO MUCH to study. Oh, wait, quick sidetrack. On the first day of finals

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the ... ), and the bubbles are thin layers of water on almost every side, maybe it's just the overload of colors that it's exposed to on all those sides

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  it, I was just taking a shower. It came on quickly; I blinked, and then ... to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an entire month’s worth of pain and exhaustion and fear came bubbling up

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Two Sides Of The Coin… For Us Too Watching the people who didn't get in receive their letters is as heartbreaking for me…

  

  I posted a version of this as a comment in the last thread, but ... 've been a bit sad this week, and many of you have been wondering why: "you ... look forward to bumping into them on the Infinite and watching them grow

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  ] and sitting on a lime green couch or on a ledge of building ... I'll be honest, I lost track of time somewhere around the end of ... surprised at it being April, now, it's the middle of May, and it seems like no

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  . I think of all the dorm events, and the time I left a mark on my dorm ... MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... clubs, jobs, and, most importantly, around people. The fog of existence

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  parents helped keep me on task while filling out applications, took care of ... a reflection on the worth of your child. Most often, rejections are ... , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007