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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday ... animation for decades. Disney Animation Studios pioneered animation tools such

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  the coast with balloon cameras for months -- or as long as it takes for ... edge of space, sending back photos over a cell phone -- partly just for

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  registration page comes offline. Which reminds me… Have you registered for CPW ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life-changing event I wished I’d registered for but missed the deadline because I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  heat into heating for surrounding buildings. Yay! Where was I? Oh, spring vacation. I used to go home for spring break, but since I don ... write a post about my awesome room in East Campus for you. :) Happy

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  efficiently. Power Electronics is, for better or for worse, about as time ... lab -- how exciting! I've also been working on assignments for my other

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  Trivia: This year's admit rate was 11.9%. What was the admit rate for ... folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any statistical junkie. Recently, we updated the admissions statistics page for this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  think that it's the most beautiful thing on earth. The reason for this is ... colleges, like Harvard and CalTech, strive for uniform and regal architecture ... , MIT has its fair share of boring buildings as well. Take, for example

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  threat and are confused by the need for a chainsaw in a box. They will be ... chainsaw and head for the small dome, we'll fend them off and wait for rescue

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  is at an absolute standstill. We had an event tonight for the American Medical Students Association, and it took 2 ½ hours for the food to arrive ... some pictures from this evening: I'm ready for the snow...

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  probably an easy decision for you (at least it was for me.) Hopefully you ... , business), get a “real” job, take a year off to figure things out, work for a non-profit organization (Teach for America, Peace Corps), work in a lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  're available; this is mostly for the Regular Action selection committee ... . Decision day: We have not yet announced a date for early action decisions. We will make an announcement later in December; watch the blogs for more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  , GA, will head off to Dartmouth for a Ph.D program next year. As an ... , one of the few MIT microbiology labs, for one and a half years. She says ... and that bacteria allow for easier scalability of a process.”

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.

  

  the information session for visiting high school juniors & ... , Friday CPW Registration Help Desk, 1-3pm, Friday "Voting" for Daniel in ... some delayed flights. Don't worry, we'll be here for you. If you have any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  For now, I'll refer you to this blog entry, but I'll be back ... if I sit around and wait for the news, the world around me isn't going to wait for me. I have three months left in my undergraduate career

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  Creasy at the Johns Hopkins University (a fantastic school, btw) for the ... application numbers for the past five years, starting with last year and working ... is just for fun. No prizes will be awarded, just pride and bragging

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  for some reason there is no Project Runway category on MITblogs. So ... fine print on this offer reads "Students will be responsible for travel ... MIT paid for it. Also, I remembered that days in Germany are supposedly

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hip-Pop – Konnecting Souls Part of the MIT series "Hip-Pop in French: Contemporary Theater, Film, Dance, Comics and Graphic…

  

  , MIT Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies Wednesday, October 4 7pm ... . For this stop in Boston, during a lecture/demonstration, Franck II ... http://www.f2louise.com/. For more French events at MIT: http

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some summer pictures

  

  I've been promising for a while that I would post some pictures from ... Center for Neuroscience & Technology. I consider this MIT-relevant because, even though I found and applied for the internship myself, the fact

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  for a while.] The double :-( :-( is my Friday. 2 - 4 pm ... techniques for observation and measurement of physical variables such as force ... continua: equations of motion useful for porous, hydrated biological tissues

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  opening-round game at Giants Stadium (I think) to cheer for the Azzurri ... eventually tell how each team was doing based on where I was. For instance, if ... bars with large televisions that faced the sidewalk, and for the last 3

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006