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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  MIT, being at the forefront of a lot of things, is a very neat place to be. It's also a really dangerous place to be. No, no, don't freak ... . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  let you guys know about a competition that she and fellow MIT undergrads Jennifer Sim and Di Ye have organized: Introducing a great opportunity for ... Competition! MIT Technology Fair - a group of undergraduates dedicated to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  I've been reading a lot of the comments about the applications that ... graduate school, and there are a million questions running through my head, but I got hit by a jolt of admissions reality just now. 1. The deadline

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  had to work, I walked to and from school most days. I kind of cry a tear ... ,000 resident city-within-a-city, so we rarely had to leave. For my sophomore through senior years, I spent it at a less-exclusive high school where there

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  Meet Edmund Jones, a member of the Admissions Office staff (and Sam ... photo (notice the tupperware! what a friend to the environment...), and ran away to a meeting. Here's what he emailed me today: Mitra, Where

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  I've been working with Daniel on advising a group of freshmen this ... with a large table awaiting us. It was a great opportunity to catch up on ... home. We have a varied group with one hailing from Alaska and another

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog (Naval Open Source Intelligence) to a relevant MIT OpenCourseWare course, 21A.217: Anthropology of War and Peace, taught by Prof. Hugh Gusterson

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  There are a few questions that I've often wondered if people were ... . I have only a few days left in Switzerland (I will post pictures at some point!), so I'll kill a little time by answering them. What's the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Update from Kentucky

  

  This entry doesn't have much content, it's just a placeholder while I come up with real things to write. In the past week and a half I've gone through a bacterial respiratory infection (started before then, peaked

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap ... Press has a nice story about "gap years" that has been picked up by news

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  at Torino. All photo credits go to Matt Peddie '09. A pretty nighttime shot from far away. Note how the medal design has a hole in the middle just like the Torino medals. A much more close-up shot. You can see the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The New MIT Viewbook! Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton of work) we saw…

  

  Taking a break from reading today, I saw Matt's latest post and had to chuckle. In looking back a year, he references this post, in which I ... entire year. Last week, after a year of intense introspection (and a ton

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in ... after pulling an all-nighter on a Boeing 757. Way too many dangerous chemicals and worth-more-than-your-life machines.) A grad school interview is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  year. So, while I'd really like to write a really long and complicated ... circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what ... However, the good news is that it should be a fairly eventful weekend; MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jenkins has played a leading role over the ... squarely into a historical context of artistic and creative activities. Much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  Just got back from interviewing design firms. We're embarking on a redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  Meet Riri Williams.   Riri is a fictional 15-year-old black ... recreates a rough version of an Iron Man suit using parts "borrowed" from campus. Presumably, she spent a lot of time at the Stata Loading Dock

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  help us get a better understanding of your mastery in a subject. We ... confidence you have the minimum proficiency in a course to successfully pass ... has impacted your performance in a class, or a decision to take a course
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  schedule, here it is: 6.1010: a.k.a Fundamentals of Programming! I mostly ... )weekly recitation + weekly pset class format, this class only meets twice a week in ... a total of 18 open lab hours a week that you can go to if you need any

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  dream the whole thing. I get a little bit jumpscared when I get an alumni ... career pivots, self-discovery in a new hobby, or newfound interest in ... apartment hunting, and figuring out how to use a dishwasher. Not entirely

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025