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  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  Hi all- I’m taking a break from reading applications to give ... have applied to us Regular Action, please log into MyMIT and confirm your ... have missing components, don’t panic. We have not yet begun to

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  The future of, well, pretty much everything seems to be coming to us ... visited prior to this summer -- received a huge boost from 3D printing. As evidence, witness the burritob0t, one man's attempt to use technology and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre-orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  More info for Admitted Students just a few more things to do

  

  Congratulations to all of the admitted students! I hope you are still celebrating, but I also want to remind you of a few things to do now as you make your final decision over the coming weeks. Tune in to the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  refuse to wear anything else.) I've slowly been getting myself back to good ... goodness of Barbeque Lay's (okay, so maybe to mediocre health). And I can't tell you how luxurious it is to wonder what I should be doing right now

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  Are you looking for true love at MIT?  Are you not willing to leave your dorm room or talk to anyone in real life?  Then this latest MIT ... other enough to submit anonymous displays of affection, but not enough to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  post. Disclaimer: I gave myself exactly one hour to write this post ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7 ... my quantum pset 4. Watching the Obama/Romney debate *In order to "see

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  class is so incredibly relevant to daily life. (warning: i'm about to nerd out hard core, so feel free to go back to homepage and click on a ... . And it links it directly to the item that basically controls my life

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  School has already started, but I have one last part of summer to share, and that is how I managed to feed myself for three months. You see, this immediately ties into how I'm going to feed myself for the next

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  QUOTE: “I think MIT is the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet ... to that crazy Institvte up north. (I still remember writing this blog ... the other end of that blog) I wanted to write this entry last year when

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens ... general direction managed to leak into my late evening tonight that I thought I'd share. Coherency is left as an exercise to the reader. Around

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  or anything that is likely to need changes or edits. No need to wait ... us know ASAP. Be sure to validate your Part 2 (on page 10) well ... are related to not validating early enough. Also, don't forget to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  As a freshman, I made the conscious decision not to live where I knew ... the rest of my life to meet other math people, and I really wanted to use college as an opportunity to expand my horizons and meet other kinds

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  food and a thing you do with food. You'll probably never need to ... help. Isn't that weird? Anyway, I guess I'm supposed to tell ... they're interested in something, it seems to imply that they know a

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  already tell that this semester is going to be very different from anything ... for me this semester being the type of work we are expected to do. Typical for an MIT student, I am used to not a day going by without a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary ... to exercise. Hooray! Hooray for bicycles! I'm also very risk averse ... from near my home about 7 miles to campus. I get a nice view, I get to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  latter, in the sense that we compete to admit and enroll similar, though ... my two admissions cycles, what I've learned has been mostly limited to ... process out there, but it is still useful to learn how other places do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cultured C-Show 2011

  

  that I was capable of turning off my alarm and going back to sleep, without any conscious knowledge of my actions. (2) I listened to my 18.03 (diff eq) professor sing in class, to general applause and awe. (3) I ate

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  into a socialist utopia. But, prior to leaving for home for spring break ... everything I brought with me), I paid a visit to Kim’s office and did some ... interesting to see what has changed, and what remains the same. Many of you will

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Snow has arrived and shut down the Institute

  

  I woke up today to blowing snow, the sound of fire trucks (from the ... 18 inches of snow, and ice on the roads to close schools. Being as ... if Bostonians are less accustomed to snow, or perhaps it really does

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 12, 2011