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  Two important reminders

  

  admitted students to postmark their decision reply forms. For Sarah and any ... fast approaching. Today, Friday, April 29, is the regular deadline to ... for U.S. students to sign up. Remember that we require, in addition to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  . This happens. We have not yet begun to review partial applications, and ... before contacting our office to make sure we've received and processed your ... posted last week, we have been working through our buckets and buckets of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  I'm not going to grad school next year, but I am taking the GRE's in physics this saturday. Few things I'm doing to prepare for it: sleeping < 3 hours last night to drastically shift my sleep schedule into

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  misspelled words I see on applications. And, thanks to GoogleBattle, I'll tell ... As you begin your MIT application and other college applications, I thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  and head-scratching, because we were able to put them to good use. Also ... likes us from this picture. Luke '07 talks to Kathleen '10 and another ... decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  friends and I decided to travel to Iceland!! This was my first time ever ... ! We planned out an itinerary, booked a hotel, found places to eat, and ... trampolines, and the wind was trying to eat us. It felt so very college :D I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  a golf ball moving 1" to start your link and ends by pulling a string ... you to visit the MIT Museum and see his work in person. Here's one of ... home eating, ice skating, eating, shopping, eating, and watching movies

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  year. Successful transfer students come to MIT from many backgrounds: community colleges, the U.S. military, international universities, and other non-traditional pathways.  Unfortunately, we are very limited to how
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  learn to spot weld 5 digits of pi, and mentors/staff can arc weld them ... , Laureates and Leaders Induction Ceremony, East Campus social, and Simmons Hall social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  students design and manufacturing hands on and culminates in the annual 2 ... was inspired by the American Revolution. The competing robots had to ... Church, hide cannonballs in Concord, and ride from Lexington carrying the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  to know is that I love science (and other things, like bluegrass music, Parks and Rec, and the Oregon Ducks). Another thing on the list of things ... officially said goodbye, and I STILL have that post. I'm working on it. Proof

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday, ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown Boston. P.F. Chang's was packed, but we zipped to the front of the line

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read all the posts from the beginning, and also check out the student blogs: Mitra, Kevin, and Allison. Tomorrow, the entire admissions staff will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  sequel to 801), WGS.151 Gender, Health, and Society, and WGS.229 Race ... class before I did… So I came clean and asked to attend the first lecture ... didn’t even want to. 98LH was an academic adventure, and a fascinating

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn ... postdoc who called to offer me a job, and for whom I worked for ten ... , MD to work at the NIAAA. I had a great time, and I developed a love for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  the Internet) went to Maker Faire out in CA last year and wrote a blog ... huge convention/fair of creative people getting together to show off the ... around chilling, and there will be a 6,500 sq/ft 50,000 lbs life size

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  stranger to MIT. She spoke here as part of the MIT Writers Series and visited campus again as part of a symposium on Asian Diasporas and New ... Last Friday, I went to the AMC Cambridge to see the big

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  corner of Commonwealth Ave. and Hereford Street in the Back Bay to welcome ... substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog (Naval Open Source Intelligence) to a relevant MIT OpenCourseWare course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Engineering Hero One of the coolest professors at MIT

  

  kid, I've always been intrigued by invention and design to the point of ... hanger into the socket and expecting my robot to come to life. Professor ... spent on the iterative design process and what it takes in order to be

  • by Bryan
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  answered, and I'll try to get to them quicker. Examples of questions you can ... meeting, and will try to answer all the questions I can. However, the ... 'll check in on this post every so often to try and answer your questions

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021