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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  incredible distinction, and one of the best things I've enjoyed at MIT is that they are not distant from the students. Freshman year, I had a recitation ... So over in the world of UROP, things were pretty exciting this week

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Admissions Update Updates about application numbers, application tracking, and more.

  

  documents unless this is not possible. If we are missing an evaluation, the ... have not yet determined when the announcement will be made; it usually is ... about 6%. Midyear Report: The Midyear Report is on schedule to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the ... ? I should also warn people at the beginning that this is a long post. I ... class - I highly recommend it, not just as an advising seminar), the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  : PARSIG’s goal is to understand the mechanism of L. donovani infection and ... truly all the weekends there are not enough to explore the city. The city ... internship was the perfect mix of work and adventure. I not only gained the

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  Today is Registration Day at MIT, and tomorrow (Tuesday) is the first ... you please comment about the Campus Preview Weekend? My son is planning ... submissions of art, music, etc, but it is starting to get a little late in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  are holding "Brining Down the House," the novel on which the movie is ... As you probably know, the movie 21, based on the true story of the ... case you haven't seen the trailer or the commercials, you can watch it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  to convince our parents that snow is not the end of the world?" I wish ... ) considered? If yes, how would you evaluate them? The grading scheme is ... -US grading systems. In fact, your system (O/A Levels) is probably the grading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  City** is not that time Carrie tells Berger's friends off because Berger ... Steve - although those definitely made the top 5, the number one is ... As Snively wrote, school's out for the summer, but that certainly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  very tightly. But the fundamental problem is that MIT is just not a very ... understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to ... longer than 4 years to graduate, but mostly I hear the problem is due to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  note="growing up, I really did not understand why the Midwest was in the Eastern half of the country; South Dakota, which is designated by the Census ... . Our next stop is Chicago, which, incredibly, concludes the first leg of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nisha’s Restaurant Review: February this is extra but i'm doing it anyways

  

  ="and not just Le's in Harvard Square or The Friendly Toast in Kendall, which ... "]Davis Square[/annotation], which is pretty far out of the MIT bubble. We had ... added bonus of getting to watch the SuperBowl on the bar TV. Not that it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  questions: What is up with the whole abstract course nomenclature? Im sure this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world. Why not call Course 9 'Biology'? Why not go the full distance and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  'm thinking why not just enter a PhD program off the bat? What I guess is nice about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like ... degree since I would have a PhD as well? Right now, I think the answer is

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  room. This is what the MIT News Office wrote about it when it was built ... , professor of management and dean of the Sloan School. "This new facility is ... emerging from our research, it is also a classroom for teaching the people

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  life. But NPC-ness is a spectrum, not a binary, just as all the factors ... out of Arizona/the only one who can save me is Rona," I riffed ... ." "My rap name is Flavius," Wenjun offered. "No, it's not," Lupe said

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  realizing that yes, in fact, t does equal t, but that is not answering the ... after but not the in-between. It is, after all, easiest to picture the ... you move it along is called the distance travelled. The difference

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  ) other schools do not have the time and resources to make such a class ... teaches design and manufacturing, so the first month or so is dedicated to ... class is eliminated from the competition. Things get more serious and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  For the fifth consecutive year, we will admit students from our waitlist. Within the next few days, we plan to admit approximately 60 students from the waitlist. When our waitlist decisions are finalized, we

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread For Those Not Admitted

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were ... love to have on campus. For those of you whom were not admitted, know

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is ... material unless the application did not sufficiently show who you are. I hope ... "undergraduate application materials" on the envelope. You do not need to be a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006