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FAQ / International applicants
What if I’m waiting for my green card?
All applicants are requested to fill out the application with their current citizen status. In our first-year admissions process, you ... green cards are considered to have non-U.S. citizen/non-U.S. permanent -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.
Each Wednesday, The Weekly Dig (my favorite rag) hits the newsstands. It's generally a mixture of pop culture and local political coverage ... professor inventing a real DEATH RAY, I didn't figure it would be a real -
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 not only her robotic "children" like Leonardo and Kismet but also her -
Blog / MIT Life
Photo of the Day – Installment #1 Photo of the day #1
While I try go get in the swing of things with the start of the semester, I'll begin what I hope will become a new tradition (pending the availability of interesting enough photos. Here's the first one and I think it -
Blog / Academics & Research
def hackMIT(); cool code & company
P.S: This is the only bit of coding I did this weekend. Stay tuned for the next three HackMITs to hear about a possible project ;) -
Blog / Academics & Research
2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor
was inspired by the American Revolution. The competing robots had to ... like ejecting a mini robot to complete a subtask. Aside from the ... early 1970s. His approach to a hands-on mechanical engineering curriculum -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Blizzard Barbecuing A few feet of snow never hurt anyone
Yesterday Spanish House celebrated Boston's record breaking snow fall with the WTF(Winter Time Fun) Barbecue! Who says a few feet of snow signals the end of outdoor activites. Photo Credit to Hollie O. '15 -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Admitted in EA!
Congratulations on your acceptance to the class of 2017! This is what you look like right now - Go ahead and introduce yourselves. :-) -
Blog / Admissions
Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome
the country come together to compete for $49,000 in prize money ... ;/param > Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know. Notice ... here, at MIT, on September 17th 2011! Our office worked hard in order to -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Orientation Lots of fun with picture pages
Wondering what our new freshman are up to this week (aside from the usual East Campus shenanigans)? This SlideShowPro photo gallery requires the Flash Player plugin and a web browser with JavaScript enabled -
Blog / Academics & Research
LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.
I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.) -
Blog / MIT Life
Snow Day? No Way! I'm totally counting down the days until the spring equinox.
As you may have seen from Shannon's blog, everyone at MIT woke up to a rather snowy view outside. Here's what my fraternity looked like: Fortunately for me, my first class on Mondays is at noon. So the roads looked -
Blog / Personal Travel
I’m in New York Picturesss on flickrsss
Staying with my friend Larisa in her and her mom's swanky apartment across the river from the city. And taking some pictures. Finals seemed like forever ago. Taking the train back to New Haven tomorrow. -
Blog / Challenges
Anatomy of a Late Night There are some problems caffeine can't solve. But only a few.
2 liters of Mountain Dew: $2.75 Mint Milanos: $3.39 Artichoke Spinach Hummus: $2.99 Wheat Thins: $2.29 Getting all your work done... priceless And now, I sleep, perchance to dream... -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Are We Dating? Till blogging do us part
close to me in pictures. Plus we do a lot of fun things together Sam ... . Komen Breast Cancer Race for the Cure: We also try to visit New York ... time working than sleeping: But to answer your question, there is -
Blog / MIT Life
Don’t Dump I got stopped by the police.
Awesome title, right? In short, my Friday involved graffiti, press conferences, and getting stopped by the police. Just one photo to whet your pallet. A series of updates on Orientation and the start of Rush are long -
Blog / Events
MIT ‘10s: Prom, Graduation, And Other End-Of-Year Photos Here are some photos sent to me by various MIT '10s. Feel free to email…
Here are some photos sent to me by various MIT '10s. Feel free to ... '10 @ graduation! Star '10, who writes "I challenge anyone to top a graduation in Hawaii :P" Send your MIT '10 end-of-year photos to benjones at m -
Blog / Hacks
Best. Hack. Ever. The title says it all.
www.mitcannon.com Hats off, hacking community. Hats off. For the record, this is absolutely my favorite hack of all time... Amazing. -B P.S. I dedicate this to you. ;-) -
Blog / Admissions
Decisions are in the mail Decision letters are in the mail.
At 2:52pm today, the postman arrived to take away the decision letters. Decisions will be posted tomorrow at decisions.mit.edu at 12 noon, Eastern Standard Time. In the meantime, Evie the dog wishes you the luck o