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• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... campus from 12:30 to 1:30pm in the Stata Amphitheater. (Inclement Weather ... and good company. This event is open to the entire MIT community

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  ...making a video. Filming Spoiler alert: most of the video is computer ... figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox ... idea in December 2013, right around the time Amazon announced Prime Air

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  life save for a stint in the military. According to the National Center ... , according to the U.S Census Bureau, 42% of people his age and younger live in ... the quality of people here at The Institute. Judd Logan is yet another

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three from MIT! Three MIT Young Futurists

  

  are some of the most down-to-earth, generous, and sincere people who I ... extraordinary contributions in a variety of areas. When I was skimming through the ... current students at MIT! <3 it!!!! Click the links to find out about

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  . The "nightclub of [my] dreams" is along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, which is roughly the equivalent of the Esplanade in Boston, except it's on ... live music and a gourmet five-course dinner - set in the nightclub of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview process?

  . Interviews are not a required part of the MIT application. While we try to ... not able to offer interviews to all applicants. If your interview is waived, it will not put you at a disadvantage in the admissions process.
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  [note: As of August 2006, this entry is out of date in regard to testing requirements. For the most up-to-date information, please view the ... calling with questions. In an effort to answer these questions, here is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be ... . He has been trying in vain to beat his record of 41 seconds. Clearly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  2018 is turning out to be quite the adventurous year. I kicked off the year by packing up all my stuff in Boston, hauling most to storage ... Hamburg. The second was Toast to IAP, hosted at STARTPLATZ in Cologne, an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white ... a glacier lagoon and returned to Vík to stay in a cabin on the beach ... friends to go on the trip with me, I sent an email that said "there is a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  departments are numbered up to 24, but here are the most common majors: 6 ... science), and 6-3 is straight CS. 6-3 is the most common major at MIT. 18-C ... the neuroscience department, so in this case 6 and 9 both refer to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  almost everyone else is kickin it into full gear to ace their own tests and theses. Below is the link to my final project for 4.502/4.564, an ... Rhinoscript, which you can use to program pretty much anything in Rhino 3D, but

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  while the drill bit (actually called an "end mill") is in the part ... ? Later in the semester we'll be using these to create aluminum molds to ... pretty much anything possible, but we had to use both the lathe and the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  , the unbreakable backbone I will need to continue in this field is no ... privileges is a sense of duty, a mandate to do good in the world, one which I ... , where the Great Hunger is a deeper search for meaning and understanding in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  were deferred in Early Action (the system is unable to display decisions ... the process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order to ... applications and selecting the class in committee. This time next week I'll be

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  big, in fact, that the following email was sent out to the MIT community ... allowing employees to use their lunch breaks to watch the inaugural swearing-in and speech. In addition, for those who wish to watch more of the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  the afternoon, so I wanted to go out after and celebrate. (I am so ... already. Anyway, my point is that I had an economics exam, so I wanted to do ... that's okay. We went to the CambridgeSide Galleria for dinner

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have a class rank or GPA?

  holistic admissions process, we're much more interested in how an applicant "fits" with our culture than if they were No. 1 in their school. If your ... .S. GPA system. Simply leave spaces blank if the information is not
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  engaged with the other half. Chalk it up to being the first time in most ... had their parents as a major factor in the decision to work that hard ... laureates walking down the corridor to your next class. MIT is an amazing

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  the SAT is bad, wait till you get to the MCAT. But that's enough ... realized that there wasn't much to see from the outside, so I left, haha. IMO ... , or the exam that tests your ability to choose correct responses to 144

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010