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• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  available (as in trying to drink from a firehose). (context: MIT)” I drank ... my last blog post in a desperate attempt to preserve inspiration, and ... health failures, I made a point to exercise in the Z-Center gym daily

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  like ejecting a mini robot to complete a subtask. Aside from the ... early 1970s. His approach to a hands-on mechanical engineering curriculum ... "No innovation without fabrication!" This is the motto of 2.007, a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things That Are 20 DID YOU KNOW? 1988 was a leap year.

  

  regime in Czechoslovakia. * Sub Pop Records, a Seattle record label known ... hot sauce manufacturing company, to obtain a perfect score on Pacman ... . (Okay, not really, but I feel like a childhood with his name had to have

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 7, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  Each year we aim for a class of approximately 1,100 students. Based ... 't possible to exactly predict how many students will attend each year. To help with the uncertainties, we also keep a wait list of students. We won
• Blog / Academics & Research

  many pink dresses come to 2.009 :D

  

  several weeks building them in lab. We're so excited to launch (and to finally sleep after the launch). Tune in to our presentation!!! I'm one of ... crop top originally purchased for Barbie, and a t-shirt given to me by 2

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 5, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Candyland @ MIT Not your average gingerbread houses!

  

  My dorm’s study break tonight consisted of a Gingerbread House Making ... teams of Baker House residents built architectural masterpieces in only an hour. Though they were given the option to build anything they wanted

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2006
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What summer programs are available?

  MIT doesn't offer a traditional open-enrollment summer school program where high school students can come to campus to take courses and live in the dorms. There are a number of small, specialized summer programs on
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  world a better place, whether or not you go to MIT. It's the truth. -B ... compelled to log it here before hitting the sack... Please, please, don't take the MIT admissions decision as any indication of your potential

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new ... running out of space here in admissions, so I think I am going to start a ... This year MIT is celebrating a century in Cambridge. "Boston Tech

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she ... those things - and a Truman Scholar as well! I got a chance to interview ... 'll love her :) p.s. a huge shout-out to Jeanne '13 who once again

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection: Day Three A beautiful snowy Sunday...

  

  It's a beautiful snowy Sunday in Cambridge, and we're hard at work selecting the Class of 2010. While working on a subcommittee with Jenny and ... have been nice to have been playing outside in the snow with them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Many MIT students were ... , here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of you may feel happy to

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  unfortunately accepting everyone just isn’t an option. If your decision was deferred, take solace in knowing that we will reconsider your application anew, and without prejudice, in Regular Action.  Also, remember that this

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  important stuff. Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When ... 'm actually learning a lot of things in this class called 20.330 Forces, Fields ... -flow-transport-electrokinetics-booty-kicker. I'm looking forward to it! See? I'm a quarter of the way there

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  'm not. It has been a while since I uploaded a video, I have a lot of footage...but it needs to be edited. So get ready for an entry filled month ... show... * Please excuse my lack of acting skills :P Credits to Travis

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ) was able to immerse himself wholeheartedly in a research curriculum; early on, the perspectives he gained convinced him to consider a career in ... university located in Cambridge, Mass. Craighead said he is looking forward to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General ... country in Africa they are actually from. None of us knew what it means to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017