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• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  Times story). A Pell Grant is a need-based scholarship provided by the ... was out of the office reading international applications, which is a ... 're not thinking so much about numbers as we are people: the students that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration Browser Issues Firefox isn't playing nicely with MyMIT...

  

  Hi folks, I just learned from the folks who support my.mit.edu that certain browsers (i.e. Firefox) may not play nicely with CPW registration, which is likely why some of you have been having problems. We'll get to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Bad Haiku What better way to welcome spring than to write some awful haiku? Help me create…

  

  long). Sometimes quiet is good. A lot of the snow melted this past ... that is not light-hearted will be deleted! :-) I'll start. McGann's new ... Seems very quiet around here today. The students are all on Spring

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT recruit athletes?

  MIT is one of the top Division III athletic programs in the country. MIT is always looking for students-athletes. Almost 20 percent of ... interested in playing varsity sports at MIT, you should contact the coach of
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did MIT invent hacking?

  MIT hacking is legendary among college pranks. MIT culture distinguishes itself not only for its seriousness of purpose but also for its unique sense of humor, as expressed in the arena of hacking. Hacks at the
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  it's quite hard and not that comfortable. The desk is spacious ... the shear enjoyment of it. Unfortunately, sitting in the seat is not as ... chair is extremely comfy. The thick padded seat squishes under your weight

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  I have done at MIT not only because it is a humanities program, but ... program is focused on experiential learning and learning from the community ... course every semester, the majority of what I do is solving problems. There

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  rank does not affect our decision. And at schools like the one in the ... Thanks to reader Timur, who sent the bloggers some "holiday'd" banners, festive for the season. The "uncapped" banner will return after the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  face. This mood meter is part of the MIT150 Festival of Arts, Sciences, and Technology (FAST) and is one of four mood meters installed by the ... need to get that happiness barometer up. The best part is walking the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  . The "nightclub of [my] dreams" is along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, which is roughly the equivalent of the Esplanade in Boston, except it's on the shore of the bay, not the Charles River. I wouldn't do the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You Gave Love A Bad Name A night of talent.

  

  lesson to everyone at the performance to highlight how dangerous it is to ... , if you want to know who the Sexy Borskis are, here you go. Fainting is ... , Zeta Beta Tau, the prize for best large act at Sigma Kappa's Late Night

  • by Bryan
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  taking advantage of IAP being, well, independent, and is elsewhere for the ... nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing something. ... Today in IAP individual events (I might go check out the Man Vehicle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  ,075 applications, and is far and away the most applications we have ever received ... , and, as I wrote in Early, it would not have been possible without the ... , with other mountaineers, next fall. Of the students to whom we do not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  who is your mentor. Also -- you do not need to choose the teacher that ... one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time ... -- do not do this (these requests rarely happen in the United States, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  : the famous breakup phrase. In Spanish, "It's not you, it's me," becomes "no eres tú, soy yo." The translation is almost exact: "you are not you ... 're really saying is "the problem IS not you, the problem IS me"), but the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  robot simply runs into a wall and is not able to correct. The gyroscope ... official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  MIT classes are divided up into units. The average class is 12 units ... -and-so is taking five! And that kid down the hall is taking six, while also ... brings us to the number 42. According to Wikipedia: "42 (forty-two) is the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  year I'm starting in a new lab. The group is in MIT CSAIL (the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab). Our work is at the intersection of ... Computing Group. The leader of our group is Zoya Bylinskii, a PhD student, and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  pies, piedentified (joke by Irina’s boyfriend Alex). The top row is ... dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1.909859317102744... π pies over the internet.   (A secret: the pies are a lie. Their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Genesis Embrace me Blogosphere!!!!

  

  Inspired by the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Theme Song Now this is the ... Square (I know, I know….give me a break, my title is long and I’m not a rapper) In Piscataway New Jersey born and raised In the backyard is where

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • September 17, 2008