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• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  design a CPU from scratch. 6.2050 is like 6.1910 but much more hands-on and ... weeks, I went from programming a button to turn on a light, to designing and building a robot that could learn to recognize people’s voices. And

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  a successful startup, we're going to need to know a language rock ... myself and fellow cofounders of a startup. We need to be well versed and ... offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  't have a foreign language requirement, so you don't really need to worry ... indeed fun, you just need to show why - and be convincing. Does that make ... want to hear. Should I consider answering in a more conventional

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... furniture to ceiling when bored.1 I’m a pretty vanilla EC resident. My ... residents. These reasons are, I imagine, pretty much the same as anyone else’s--to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  display does that to me; it keeps my mind off of the thoughts of MIT-as-a ... 've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I have a lot of work to do (as has been the case for, quite honestly, the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... . If you're emailing your EC, you may want a subject line that refers to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  of RFID. You should read the article, because it does a much better job ... So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to ... a company called Kovio, which apparently was founded by MIT alum Colin

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  for Hasbro so I need to find time for that. Oh, and did I mention that ... worked it out such that I'll get a new hard drive mailed to me, completely ... much? Yes methinks, back to tooling . . .

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  those entries. Instead, I want to focus on something much more grandiose ... weren't explicitly forbidden (and because who'd want to piss off such a ... good things" goes, but you can't deny that he's super smart. Maybe just a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  't want to listen to other people worry that a 770 means they're not smart ... the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities ... become a blog-worthy experience. (Seriously, Conner 2 people are going to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  flocked to HackMIT to crowd themselves into a gym for 30 hours and make ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late-night "insomnia cookies" to breakfast bagels with half-and-half milk. Toss in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  Avenue (living in East Campus, the closest dorm to classes, we have a ... , but he fell asleep and said he had too much work to do.   Frozen yogurt ... stormed off to Red Mango by myself, and I had a wonderful opportunity to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

  How much is the application fee?

  need-blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver will not have any ... The first-year application fee is $75, payable online with a credit ... application fees presents a hardship for some families. Fee waivers are
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy ... enroll. Colleges do decide whom to accept, but if you are smart about where to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  style is flexible enough to suit your diverse academic needs (spoiler: it ... years of MIT? It is strange to walk into a building and find out that it ... innovation and the future. Certainly it isn't a bad thing to have respect for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  THINK (a super cool program that high schoolers should apply to!! Deadline ... lot of what I was looking forward to in college.   freshman year  As a ... major. 6-9 is a very flexible major: you can decide to focus on the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  edu with the new update Anything else I need to do?????? B R E A T H E ... as much as my family did: Anyway, I come to you in 2018 bearing ... mid-year/semester grades. Do I need to do anything else? YES YA STILL

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  days of my life are now a year behind me, and it's bizarre to consider ... lived in the dorm, which is a hard truth to internalize. how did only a few months in a building I won't return to for years influence my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  Great Concavity and I need to mask outdoors as well as indoors today my ... woods to feast upon it  What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? MIT ... decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a ... green for the line of cars perpendicular to you, don't! MIT does have an ... 's a lot more for them to do somewhere more bustling, like Harvard Square

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006