Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  details about the Regular Action deadline. Other than a few hours of ... flexible with the deadline, and as such, we've extended the deadline to ... . You should click the final "submit" button for your online application

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  'd take a moment to tell you guys what I'm up to for the semester. This ... ) last semester I'm finally able to jump into a couple of the CS classes that interest me. The report is in after 4 weeks and I absolutely love

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... , if you ever take the elevator in the Student Center up to the fourth ... can shake several sticks at. And my favorite software in the world

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  the most fun is building, well, a bridge. It is pretty much what it ... climates have streams that are dry or have low flow most of the year and can be easily crossed by foot during these periods. However, during the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  DDR Tetris Read: The silliest video I have ever made.

  

  stand partner in the MIT Symphony Orchestra had made. Then, a couple months ago, I had the opportunity to see it first-hand during an impromptu cello section social. Then, I let the footage remain in my Flip

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our history.  Because of the incredible size and strength of the ... students in the coming weeks and months - about how our process works, what

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  One of the defining experiences of my 3 years in high school(we had a ... monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean Kamen's goal with FRC and all of the FIRST competitions is to popularize

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  You may have heard of the MIT Flying Club, which I'm not actually ... fly until post-MIT - in the meanwhile, I'm mostly spending my time ... awesome things.  Like putting this in the Z center (our humongous campus gym

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Ask Me Anything go on

  

  football until the insulin pouring out of my eyes from all of the carbs sends Jay Cutler into diabetic shock via the television. During that time ... the question is, as Elizabeth would say, "totes inapropes", I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  . Burton-Conner Tetris Battle (Burton Conner is the MIT dorm that is home to the creators) is now all over the web, having been covered, among other ... -Conner Tetris Battle is the creation of two Course 6 juniors, Russell Cohen '13

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  this, “I consider myself to belong to the following ethnic group ... answer: my eyes automatically scan the page for “Mexican-American”. Boom. I mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  be for the next few days and weeks. So though I've got a bunch of ... , who was admitted to the class of 2015, is a professional yoyo-ist. Yoyo-er. The man has serious skills with a yoyo. He's already got plenty of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  awesome, what's not to love about the combination? So here it is, *groan ... * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to ... thinking about, and where the time I put in materialized in the form of cool

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  get to laugh at the word "pants" and not even feel bad about it ("I was ... mail. It's not a weird as it sounds, I promise). At the end of the unit, the kids got to make flat versions of themselves and the teacher had

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

    Let me begin by telling you the actual title of this blog... "Things I Discovered About Myself as it Relates to the Artsy Stuff I Have in ... think?? lol As usual, my thoughts come out as bullet points so in the

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  all drank as much as we wanted to, there wouldn’t be enough. The result was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  it a few days ago! (Sorry Rishi!) Anyhow, this is certainly one of the ... never realistically go. In fact, if I had not visited the University in ... about the competition I was facing and the level of excellence that would

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome 2014s!! :) See you in the fall!

  

  finally made the decision on matriculation! For all of those that replied in the affirmative, congratulations! You're in for one heck of a ride. ^______^V but don't worry, you'll be in with some of the best company you will

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  Okay, I admit it! I decided to come to MIT without the benefit of an ... , was a meeting held in the home of an alumni volunteer named George Keller '48. He lived in the Bay Area, was chairman of Chevron Oil at the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  is coming up in just over a week, I've spent the past few days cycling ... 've forgotten so much of what I learned in the EMT class I took over IAP, and I haven't had a whole lot of experience on shift. The latter, though, might

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010