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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  with their college t-shirt on, rightly proud of their future home for the ... website, we though they might be interested in buying one for themselves (or hundreds for their friends, either way) to show off this hack which they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  speech and writing related. Context for these and similar questions ... and do techniques for experimental neuroanatomy and electrophysiology, and more generally, techniques for studying how the brain works as a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  underpowered for doing the shopping. We have no entourage of support vehicles ... Mongol rally is a charity event raising money for some fantastic ... drinks at the launch party, leap into the cars and head for Dover. Once we

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Secret Life Of Marilee Jones Sam is the funniest, though... BOTB and CPW Feedback.

  

  variable is responsible for the fact that we sold out Lobdell Food Court: 1 ... get psyched and ready for their performance. Nance gives Ben a ... , Battle of the Bands was great and CPW was just that much better for it. As

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  was for female students, and whether I had experienced discrimination as ... there enough air for everybody to breathe?" Just as I've never noticed a ... against for their gender. MIT investigated and found that they were, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  of my HASS classes. The first pset was for 16.901 "Computational ... " scale. Pset number two was for 16.05 "Thermal Energy" or more ... and taking a nap for the rest of the semester. Each project is quite

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  , there will be no way to find out. As for the postal mailing, we still do ... -based financial aid. I, for one, could not have attended MIT without its generous ... be the most competitive year ever for MIT admissions, both for US and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  Unseasonably gorgeous February days Last Thursday, for whatever ... out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15 minutes, and headed out to Boston for some happy sunny day shopping. (Key

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection continues Regular Action domestic selection is underway.

  

  As you've read over at Ben's blog, the admissions officers are currently in the middle of regular action selection for domestic applicants. While students had a three-day weekend this weekend, we worked straight

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Decisions Are Not In The Mail Bad language on MyMIT.

  

  fixed in a few hours. Sorry for any confusion! Ben

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  that I think would make for some good discussion. For a full reference ... your first academic love." As for teaching science at the precollege ... career path has lost its appeal for some students. Says junior Nicholas

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  was helpful, because now I'm fine with getting up for morning classes ... , asking questions about the trends in everyday communication we take for ... today, and our goals for the course. It looks like a fascinating class

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  asked to design a prototype car for the nonprofessional weekend autocross ... has been on campus for five years. Schools that have been in the competition for many years generally only make minor adjustments to the original

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no ... . One thing I did do is fry forty-six meatballs this weekend for the Mafia ... or potato-bean soup for the Mafia potluck at NH4, and Sam's Mom settled

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taste of the Middle Ages

  

  sorry I missed it -- it looks delicious. I'll have to settle for visiting

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Stirling Engine Spinoff The 2.670 competition is tomorrow!

  

  Join Us For The Eleventh Annual 2.670 Spinoff!! Friday, January 20 in the Pappalardo Lab (Basement of Bldg. 3) 3:30-4:00 pm- Craftsmanship Contest 4:00-4:30 pm- Stock Engine Race 4:30-4:45 pm- Modified Engine Race 4

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Up To Date! Tracking your application.

  

  good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will show what materials we have processed for you. We should have the ... available for most students, we do not expect that most students have sent in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Coin Is Found! The Mystery Hunt ends after 36 hours.

  

  entry. Thanks to Random / S.P.I.E.S. for running another terrific Mystery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  While Mollie has pretty much sent off all her applications for ... yes and no. For example, I've often heard of the stigma that those ... labelled as researchers and end up becoming the head scientist for a company

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests and everything, I'll be able to join MIT's EMS squad for the spring

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006