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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Intermission Summer job: just kickin' it. And working at Pixar, too.

  

  Sometimes taking a little time to recharge is really all you need. I ... breaths, and it's been.. really nice. That doesn't mean I've forgotten about ... month, they're releasing Ratatouille, which my mom never fails to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  Break, and somehow it feels like the whirlwind that surrounded the mailing of decisions was ages ago (due to the fact that last week felt so very ... weekend. I'm seeing the first signs of spring. What better way to welcome

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Today’s Mailing Day For me this is a huge thing. You guys are my first MIT class, which…

  

  eve. I distracted myself with a transition shave. It's supposed to say ... emotional about it - overwhelmed for the admits and devastated for the denied ... who got in - with rare exception, I couldn't bring myself to look

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I test out of some classes by taking Advanced Standing Exams?

  Advanced Standing Examinations are one way to earn credit for MIT ... 've already mastered introductory coursework at MIT, then you can take an ASE to test out of it. It's essentially like sitting the final before the class
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  then, I’ve had an inverted sleep pattern I’ve been too lazy to change. It’s ... , like unicorns or people that don’t like Taylor Swift. What’s not to ... friend and I were taking the same Intro to Java class this IAP, and spent

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  . Instead, we ask our applicants to provide short (100-250 word) answers to ... something you do simply for the pleasure of it. Although you may not yet know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  , and with my second season of reading applications behind me, its time to start getting to know all of the wonderful people I have been able to read ... area, you should check it out -- it's a great opportunity to meet some

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  during our travels, we get to meet amazing students and talk to them in person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn ... personal side to your knowledge that might make it even more interesting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to ... students, it's not hard to meet new people. With dating and the like, I don ... land. (But I am good with pick-up lines) I'll flashback to the

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  With all these applications, it's tough to find time to blog. There are lots of terrific applications! This will be a challenging year to ... to catch them, though, it may help protect fish by enabling

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  Friday, January 14, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of ... will have "warm-up" activities prior to the beginning of the Hunt, and at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  a speed-dater would agree to a real date. It was a good sign, Madan ... couples are attracted to each other. They then turned it into software that ... factor" . The weight assigned to each feature depends on how much it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  -front about it as well. Without further ado, here is a recipe to make yourself ... /computer science"]Course 6[/annotation]class. I don't have much to say about it—it ... class for a while, being able to write something and actually see its

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  classes and south of sixteen. You don’t need to find it. You don’t have to ... *everything* else to make up for it, that this is my one chance to take a lot of ... pattern in myself before but only recently have I come to see it as not just

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  I know it's been forever since I've posted anything - things have been so crazy busy, I don't ever seem to have time to sit down and blog ... 're interested, feel free to follow me - I'm @MikeyMIT. Meanwhile, I've been

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  ; Basically, the drug Crixivan ® is used to combat HIV, but it is a very ... , GA, will head off to Dartmouth for a Ph.D program next year. As an undergraduate, she made sure to take time to explore our campus and enjoy the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  doing yet, and GOSH DERN IT I'M GONNA DO 'EM, FOOLS! I am proud to ... like a total goober but it literally almost brought tears to my eyes. He ... . I thought it'd be fitting to get my book signed for my high school

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  inspire just one little girl to dance, it was all worth it. ... DID YOU KNOW? The German language has two different verbs for "to eat ... (fressen). I have also learned the German word for "to strike a deathblow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  , I once had half of an episode described to me and I think it's kind of ... dating show, but a competition." Okay, so maybe it's a little stereotypical to be advertising an open casting call for "geeks" at MIT, but this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET

  

  your MyMIT password, you may use our automated system to reset it. Simply ... enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action decisions online next Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET.  To check your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2018