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• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  rat, the ring design and what happens at ring delivery, I'm going to ... here's to spoiling you with my riches: The Ultrium It's 100% ok to not be 100% prepared. Wave goodbye to the days of spelling lists and map

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  that I wanted to go on a tour but didn't want the other people on the ... 've heard Alina's story, I'll need to drop in on the others guides' tours to ... , someone stopped by to see me, or worse yet...it rained and why on earth

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  recitations to go to, so I decided, being the music lover that I am, to head over to Baker House to hear the wonderful sounds a piano can make on a ... baby grand and took advantage of the opportunity to have our photos taken

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  ), then you're looking at around 84 units beyond the GIRs. Add that to your ... . In order to double-major, you need 270 units beyond the GIRs. So in addition to your GIRs and the classes in your majors, you'd have to take 30

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  spending so much time on it, I decided to turn it into a UROP under the ... semester dreaming of how the camera would look like--promising myself to start on the construction after finals week, for fear of not getting

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  listen to Macbeth on Halloween! and see the Chorallaries' big secret ... are trying to get back on our game, fulfill our club mandate, and have ... idea of writing a blog about what all the different performance groups on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  discovered on Saturday when showing the project to my friend). Not to worry, my ... up until 4am Saturday morning on the internet talking to my friends and ... This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would love to have on campus. However, we did place some students on our

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  on the waitlist to 454 people, in the possibility that we needed to go ... waitlist. Within the next few days, we plan to admit approximately 60 ... offer) or decline it. Also, we will begin notifying some students on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  , and we compare and contrast the different responses to gain perspectives in the other country. It's interesting to see the different sorts of ... comparison to what comes to the mind of a French student. We consider these

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  RA Blogger Applications Due Wednesday 9/6 At Noon Extended deadline...

  

  As stated in the original post, they were actually due on 8/31, but I forgot to remind you, so I've extended the deadline. :-) If you wish to be considered, please get your application in on time! We will try to make

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  wrong. To those of you who were on the waitlist, particularly those of ... nutshell, we're not going to be able to admit anyone from the waitlist this ... fewer applicants this year - fully intending to use the waitlist in order

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  probably related to the fact that we need to be "on" all day/night during ... Alison Burr, the GC at Loomis. I did my best to explain our selection ... . So they took all of the money that they would have spent on the kids

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  , during which I applied pressure to the On button, and the Blog for MIT ... : Conduct first-hand research on the process by which humans die by freezing. Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  I subscribe to the New York Times (paper edition!) and reading it on ... hardest. Anderson tried to sell him on the university’s academic excellence ... geniuses takes him.   Good luck to Jimmy and the team as they take on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  Lobby 7 on my way to take the 3.091 (Solid State Chem) midterm. Quick ... Electronics” and held at the Media Lab which has to be the coolest building on ... ’m doing wrong. So I do it on the whiteboards again to double check my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  Requirement, always provided the empty space and mirrors necessary for us to ... impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series ... , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  schools for the fall. To those of you who stuck with us on the waitlist ... This afternoon, we notified the 64 students remaining on the waitlist ... additional students from the waitlist this year. The decision not to admit any

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  Watsonville. We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which is rated the #3 ... . Here's our boat, the sqrt(2*kinetic energy/mass) -- or, as some like to call it, Velocity We woke up insanely early to go on a fishing trip. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005