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  Selection: Day Three A beautiful snowy Sunday...

  

  have been nice to have been playing outside in the snow with them ... selecting the Class of 2010. While working on a subcommittee with Jenny and Mike '07, we spied out the window some folks playing in the snow in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some of the topics Here are some of my classmates' CI-M paper topics

  

  Textile industry and trade Determinants of the price of vodka Access to the ... the real estate market for condos Impact of Vioxx's downfall on pharmaceutical company stocks December 8: The Atkins diet and its effect on the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Video: Friendly Robots! Professor Cynthia Breazeal shows off her interactive robots.

  

  The PBS show NOVA scienceNOW had a wonderful story last week on MIT Professor Cynthia Breazeal, Director of the Robotic Life Group. It featured ... human children: sons Ryan and Nathan. This one, I think, is definitely

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  We've had makers on the mind here for a little while. Earlier this month Ceri blogged about the MIT Maker Faire. Earlier this year Dawn and I wrote a white paper for the White House about technically creative

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  Nobel prizes, proposed changes to the undergraduate curriculum, began ... Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2007. 2006 was the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  This week, the new MIT freshman class begins arriving for orientation programs. (Classes will begin September 7) This year's incoming MIT class is amazing. The students are awesome! Let me tell you more about them... The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  through wikipedia pages and getting information and not doing anything with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! from post-blizzard New Jersey.

  

  , basking entirely in food and sleep. A few days after I got home, the “Snowpocalypse of (dec.) 2010" hit. New Jersey was smack dab in the middle of it. Where I live, we got 2 feet of snow overnight. The blizzard crippled

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  World Cup Challenge Results The answers and winners of the World CUp Challenge of MIT international admissions.

  

  The World Cup Challenge was a lot of fun! No one got a perfect score, but on the whole, people did pretty well. Below are the results, with the name of the country in each group from which MIT received the most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How many Nobel Prize Laureates are affiliated with MIT?

  MIT is affiliated with 104 Nobel Prize Laureates. You could be taking a class with one of the 12 current Nobel Laureate faculty members at MIT very soon!
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Videos Over the Years The 90s were, uh, different

  

  I was going through some of the Admissions archives last week and ... silent film that was almost an hour long! An HOUR! What was it even like to ... fun to see their evolution in one montage of clips:   What video

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Vicious Cycle Why MIT may not be for everyone and IHTFP

  

  EDIT: I encourage everyone who connects with this comic even a little bit to read some of the discussion in the comments; it's an outpouring ... lot more things to consider than I addressed in these few panels.

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  travel and trying to free ourselves from the predicament. ... In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU GOT IN! It's time to You might be wondering, “What’s next?” Well ... ,[/annotation] you’ll receive an email with details on what’s next, so be on the look out for that. In meantime, enjoy the moment and celebrate, because it

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can my school use Naviance?

  where documents are submitted, recommenders must fill out the MIT-specific recommendation form. On the form, recommenders can indicate if they would like to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “MIT Abounds With UROP Students” A photo spread about student research.

  

  The most recent issue of MIT's student newspaper The Tech had a nice spread about summer UROPs. UROP is MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, and is the oldest and most extensive program involving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taste of the Middle Ages

  

  sorry I missed it -- it looks delicious. I'll have to settle for visiting the Met(ropolitan Museum of Art)'s Medieval Art collection --------

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  My adventures from the past month can only really be described, and my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I ... time on planes, so:     Stories to follow.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Varsity Blogging As mentioned in a previous entry, I made some end-of-year presents for my bloggers -…

  

  distributed. Now that I'm no longer in danger of ruining the surprise, check ... some belated b-day wishes when you get a chance... Also - I'm still

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Elephants? I see a lot of weird stuff around here.

  

  Well, you don't see this every day. 10 elephants cruised down Mass Ave and turned left onto Memorial Drive, parading right past Killian Court. I'm waiting for someone to put one on the dome. Coming soon

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 6, 2005