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  International Selection Day 1

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... a selection committee meeting: it was the first day of international selection. The applicants we saw today were all fantastic, which makes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  MIT is incredibly wired; wi-fi all over the campus. Students are ... hours to the Internet - aka procrastination. But is it me or are we all ... to?  - Procrastinating.  I don't blame us. The Internet these days is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Only You Have The Power Only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give…

  

  the power to decide your own worth. Part of resiliency is playing the ... I'm still reeling a bit from the last thread, I must admit. Let me say it simply guys... only YOU have the power to decide your own worth

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  , ran the country and their businesses. This is a must read for anyone who ... artist Nina Yuen. I can't put my finger on what it is about the videos but ... thought I'd steal a simple format from the wonderful NPR podcast Pop Culture

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  applications a year. The applications where the student is being genuine, where ... I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  minutes.   Let the soup cool enough that it is safe to handle. Food process ... My thesis is done. It is 384 pages long, 2.0833% of them text, 4.9479% of them pictures, and 90.365% of them code.         Here is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... start getting to know all of the wonderful people I have been able to read about over the past several months! Kris was kind enough to let me guest

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  I've spent the past week or so running about in flip-flops, taking advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I ... grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Spring Weekend Concert Announced: Fabolous and Lloyd Banks

  

  One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring Weekend," and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert, where a national musical act performs on campus. The headliners for this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  Gershenfeld. The class "How To Make (almost) Anything" (also "How To Make" or just "Make") is sort of legendary. Gershenfeld has taught the class every year since 2004 while directing the Media Lab's Center for Bits and Atoms

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  the box, and basically responded, what else is there? Only after the ... exciting activities. In the spirit of "better late than never," here is a ... . I think the meeting went quite well; the ~250 people in attendance

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  took home a few lessons from the competition. Predominant is the fact ... On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Jonte ‘13 The fourth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  University and Virginia Tech. The Ron Brown Scholar Program is the nation ... program is named for the late Ron Brown, the first African ... . Byrd Scholarship. Craighead is the son of John and Chaney Craighead

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  Did you know? "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one", and the name of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the ... storms, so that is the last time I will mention Nemo in this post. It

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  the earthquake hit in January, and is structured around weekly guest ... . I wish there was more that we could do. But there is also the ... beat of the music. There is something so resilient about the spirit here

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  RAHHHH IT SNOWED AGAIN!!! As the blogs’ resident snow enthusiast, I consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  EDIT: this post is back bois I didn't know Google had a shareable mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with ... better mapping system than a poorly edited PDF. The first map that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  personal gains hanging out with the kiddo. College is nice and all, but ... Hello folks of the blogosphere! Greetings from Columbia, MO. Now I know you are probably thinking, "Wait - but it's the middle of April

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Late Night Dial-Up Users Beware!

  

  is pretty much in line with the interest levels of MIT Blog Readers ... Ballad is a must watch. He performed it at the Conner 2 talent show tonight ... on the internet so I feel accomplished" moments. Are you ready? Can you

  • by Snively '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  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 ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005