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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two weeks. Next week, however, some students will begin arriving on campus to ... students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  common for people to go the other way on the Red Line and end up in Harvard ... sometimes for shopping. Some people go to Boston every day -- most of the ... when it just feels better to put on pajamas and rent a movie and order

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  one of the 170 student groups trying to recruit you for next year, come on down to the esplanade and take a few minutes to run 3 miles with ... 'm most excited to see what Marilee Jones performs. I'm hoping for a little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  Mother, waiting for her to add her voice to mine, but she was silent. Her ... !” Educated (100k words). We had to do a book review for the class, and I chose ... permission to just feel. And a green one is going to be looking for ways to let

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  -state machine. It takes a while for the robots to look like much of anything ... also taught me how to use the necessary tools), the spacers for the ... gobbler. My camera is broken, so thanks to Ben for lending me one. While

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  king cake and a run-on sentence busy week

  

  cake because I told him to Brandon F. '19 put on a shirt just for this picture Lisa P. '21 was too busy with 18.03 (?) to pose Jamie A. '21, on ... the truth? I was up at 7 today to work on a prelab and then went to a 9

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  senior year - I took the 6.189 Intro to Python course on MIT OpenCourseWare. I did a few lessons before stopping to have time to study for the SAT ... commands on C++.","Freshman summer - I wanted to learn app development so I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  . That is all for now, folks. Feel free to ask more questions in the ... through to a handful of people, but you seemed really cool! Thanks for your ... , mostly student-driven welcome to you, on top of normal schoolwork, which we

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  order first. On behalf of everyone at MIT Admissions, I want to reassure ... Southeast. Meanwhile, according to ReliefWeb, there is flooding across Latin ... these regions with much more immediately important things to worry about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT’s Tribute to Boston Lights from the Green Building.

  

  I'll let these pictures speak for themselves, but I thought this was a lovely gesture and wanted to immortalize it on the blogs. Much love to everyone affected by today's bombings. Photo credit to the MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... was probably more like two, a voice appeared on the loudspeaker to ... Airport customs for something like an hour (can someone please explain to me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  willingness to handle failure Hands-on creativity Intensity, curiosity, and ... your SAT scores. I won’t touch on it again. You shouldn’t need to touch ... those same qualities. Jot down the first answers that come to mind for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  Sense, a wearable for firefighters that can detect if a room is unsafe to ... to play together (brochure) Pink team: Volti, a hands-free music page ... : Rhino, a device for masons to help speed up, and clean up, the repair of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  These are the decisions you’re looking for. 2022s are happening

  

  page is available now for applicants to confirm their login ability and ... week, on Wednesday, March 14 at 6:28 PM Eastern Time. Next week, when decisions are made available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and

  • by Decisions Droid
  • March 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  free to refer to the Catalog for full requirements. If you're new to ... 't realize wasn't common knowledge becase I'd been exposed to 6-3 for so long ... great start to your first freshman fall. 6.042 - Math for Computer

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  to spend my entire summer sitting on my sofa. And so I spent hours and ... there, feel free to share some tips and tricks. Also any songs you ... going to “waste” it. Yes, it fortunately ended up working out well for me

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  to try to solve it. This year, we have to create a controller for a ... .033/www/dp1/. Feel free to submit solutions in the comments. My one ... guys time to play with it. Also - feel free to let me know if you have

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to MIT, both involving RFID technology (for those who aren't that tech savvy (like me), here's the wikipedia article on RFID). One of which is

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT select students for admission?

  regional quotas are applied; neither is preference given to those with alumni relations. Selection is based on outstanding academic achievement as well as a
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  down on education in America today - had some very kind words to say ... complex concepts may be difficult for him to grasp (after all, truthiness ... Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012