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• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  ceremony. The bloggers kicked it off with the "top ten(ish) reasons to choose ... fun it is to work the registration desk at midnight. McGreggor strikes ... , especially for those admits who were not able to attend. Click here to check it

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  . It feels weird to be doing things for the last time when I already sort ... dorms you can choose to live in, but I wanted to get a place with my ... my last fall beginnings: in the adult world, it’s up to you to choose

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  would hold it up for his inspection, and attempt to balance the plane on his finger to locate its center of mass. I would observe this, although ... strategy was to fold a mediocre plane and throw it as hard as possible. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  nervewracking to realize that you're no longer the class brain, and that you can ... First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the Museum of Fine Arts (MIT students get in free! Can't beat culture for free

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  ://courseroad.mit.edu (You don’t need an MIT account to use the site, but if you don’t have the ... error.) One more note: while I was working on CourseRoad to prepare it ... to be part shameless plug for my website CourseRoad, and part

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  home, we passed the Green Building. You may know it as the tallest ... building: When we passed it, around 10pm, it was dark outside and most ... leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, I ... students seemed like the kind of people I most wanted to be. As it turned ... classes to my heart's content, but also learned that science and math can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  situations. I was originally going to post this in Ben's blog... but it sort of ... , you can major in anything you want. I think it would be very unfortunate ... to begin admitting a larger class. It's nothing against all the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  perfect finish to the college essay. I can almost feel the shivers of the ... want to try it. I constantly encounter people who remind me what it’s ... MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  this one with you: Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:25:08 -0500 To: suma ... ) ******************************   REGISTER NOW! TO REGISTER, please send an email to [email protected]   ~ For you first-time or novice traders, come try it out! See the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply for transfer admission if I’m a first-year college student?

  Yes, because you finished high school and will complete two terms of college by the time you enter MIT in the fall, you are eligible to apply as a transfer applicant. You're not eligible to apply as a first
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  children reacted to it. "I didn't tell them to run around the classroom and ... It seems like every six months or so I discover an MIT video that leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  ? Prepare to dance on sore legs. SAT test that morning? You can make it just ... not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... was “I am going to make shelf labels so I can finally know where all my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  Comparative Media Studies. I'm kind of considering it. > I have yet to see if ... 've learned since coming here, it's that sleep is very, very, VERY valuable to me, and I have to work hard to make sure I get enough of it. Burgers

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  event for you as best I can. The ceremony took place in Killian Court. It ... - Susan Hockfield's inaugural address. To say the least, it was pretty ... to it when that happens. [Edit: it's been posted here.] You may

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  get bored in Boston! It's such an amazing city, with so many things to see and do. At the same time, though, it's relatively small and you can ... weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  how easy is it to set up?" MIT has cross registration ("crossreg") with ... applications as well as giving a presentation on MIT & admissions to a group of 175 juniors who are doing a college tour of New England. It was fun

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  impressive) bearing my name. I frequently exploit this factoid to arouse ... to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the result of a $54 check to the International Star Registry. Rather, Emily has

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  is as a Bond girl with Carter '07. Now that I think of it, I can ... European people how Americans dance to "Hey Ya!" I've said it before, but one ... from Street Fighter II, and immediately to her right you can see Wilson

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  than 50 colleges and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to ... campus can be difficult to navigate for first-time visitors; and parking is ... ! How else can I help with your summer visit? For those of you who plan to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006