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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  learning to problem solve, on slowly learning the basics and refining them. I ... 'd gotten a 730 on my SAT II but only because I'd crammed two days before the ... diagnostic when you first get to campus. The results of the diagnostic help you

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  this post and moving on to the 5000 other topics on my to-do list, but I ... for some things to improve and change as time goes on. One of the most ... school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT professor Henry Jenkins on Star Wars fandom: Henry Jenkins is perhaps the most prominent scholar in the country devoted to examining pastimes often deemed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Class of 2024. I'll be closing comments on this post to focus the ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to ... them to campus to join the 4,516 outstanding undergraduates who already

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Class of 2023. I'll be closing comments on this post to focus the ... in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your ... schools scattered across the globe, from Alaska to Zimbabwe and many places

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  on that: the wind proved to be more of an enemy than the gradient. Jen ... yesterday, I was able to punch it a little bit more on the downhills. Kamal N ... intervals, and I managed to set a five-minute power record on the last day

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  -> CVG On Friday the 13th, I flew back once again to Ohio, this time ... ; CVG -> LGA On Sunday the 15th, I flew back to NYC to continue my ... ; MCI -> LGA On Sunday the 22nd, I'll be flying back to NYC to finish

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  my first trip to the farmer's market in Boston, on a lovely Saturday ... cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try-to-one-up-the ... ’ve cooked in the past, if you’d like to look at it. My more recent food resume

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  Rock Band). But that's enough on cocoa for know; back to the blog entry ... stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  around two weeks ago usually we hire a sound company to handle sound on ... sets of mics, mixers, and speakers so the safe bet was to acquire as much ... . then i built my first sound system, connecting the 5 av mics to the av

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  was adapted from the Wikipedia article on PWM, and so I am obliged to ... And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the last month by being incredibly prolific in the next. I expect this to

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  due to the weather conditions in both Boston and DC; the first real ... , with a delay really only to get the plane de-iced (nice work Jet ... Transportation is a much smaller conference put on at the end of the week by the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  does add up to a substantial amount of time. The commute starts pretty early. For the first leg of the trip, I hitch a ride with my dad to his ... early bird behavior. The fare, both on the commuter rail and in the T

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  is annual, put on by the MIT Glass Lab (the people who make the pumpkins) in a tent on the Kresge oval. There is a one-evening showcase followed by a one-day sale the next day, to benefit the lab and its

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A recipe for releasing decisions our LARGEST pi(e) day celebration yet...

  

  our automated system to reset it. Visit MyMIT and click on the forgotten ... available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same ... verify that you will receive a decision on the 14th, you should visit

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city ... hardest part on the whole route was once we had crossed the bridge. We had ... the bridge, and carry them up a steep set of stairs on the other side

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  putting "build Admissions Beowulf cluster*" on the To Do list. I ♥ my MacBook, but let me tell you that HD video is not kind to CPUs. On the plus side, we have great CPW clips on the Class of 2014 site. If you didn't see Dr

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  project focused on studying and tuning the optical properties of polymer ... welcoming and cutting-edge place to work abroad. The research that I chose to ... previously been exposed to, but I embraced the challenge and had the

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  site to learn more about him. My favortite page is the one on which he answers questions for kids. I particularly like his answer to the last ... to change the world. That part was just icing on the cake. As he

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  It's May 1! Welcome to the MIT Class of 2010! If you have sent back ... comments. We're excited to have you as a member of the class! We've spent the ... with their college t-shirt on, rightly proud of their future home for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006