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• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions ... pink) There are many, many applications to be reviewed. I know some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  There's one week left of my freshman year - how much can you fit in a seven days? A seven-page paper, six nights of studying, five hours to attend of the four classes I'm taking, three finals to sit through, two

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Night with Cranium Myth debunking and Cranium!

  

  filled of Cranium. Some of my favorite quotes from the night: In a "Club Cranium" round of Cloodle, I attempted to draw "Baby's Breath": Diana: Are ... doodles weren't working. In a "Club Cranium" round of Humdinger, Diana and

  • by Bryan
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Videos and photos and more Lots of cool coverage of MIT stuff from sites, blogs, and vlogs across the web.

  

  Lots of fun stuff to check out! Peter Houk, director of the MIT ... ): Check out (also: 1, 2) the annual parade of elephants, which delighted folks across campus this past Thursday (I, of course, missed it for the 11

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  of San Francisco do this every weekend, but do they do it on bikes they ... to walk our bikes down a steep set of stairs, across a path underneath the bridge, and carry them up a steep set of stairs on the other side

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  . Generic picture of the boats lined up on the Charles River for the fireworks ... barbecue. I don't like taking pictures of myself while eating, but I don't mind taking pictures of other people while THEY'RE eating. People

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  maybe I need to start looking at the glass of science as half full. And ... something similar: The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating ... . I recently read an article on Slashdot about the power of accidental

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  Some of you may remember last year, when Caltech students came to ... fire it at important events. Guess where the cannon is as I type this? (All photos are credit of Jo Tong '08) That's outside MIT's Green

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  at the last page of the pdf. Soon, they will be posting the pilot of ... actually in the process of pitching the concept to the discovery channel ... enough, I was walking down the Infinite on my way to study for one of my

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  deadline has passed, the admissions officers are spending the bulk of our time evaluating the thousands of applications we've received. This evaluation process will continue throughout the month of November. Here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  share with you today's email. It is very reminiscient of the letters I would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From ... So my mom and I are pretty tight. I do call her every day courtesy of

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM ... enormous pile of folders they have waiting to go out. So here's what I can ... and will continue to do so over the next week or two. By the middle of

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  meantime I've finally responded to your most recent comments at the end of ... Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of weeks. Hope you like the new site. It incorporates a lot of your feedback

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  100% of MIT undergraduates study the humanities, arts, and social sciences. At MIT, we consider the humanities, arts, and social sciences ... . The requirement deepens our students' knowledge in a variety of cultural and
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I have ever known. For many of our readers, I suspect Woodie needs no introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  sitting at one of the desks and then one farther away up against the wall ... in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists with cameras, taking pictures of the most random, well, crap, that I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  -so-prevalent commodification of time at the institute. As a student, time is wealth, time is ... like, you know, processing things for at least a few of the 167 hours in ... to outrun the decay of your brain, constantly fleeing the moment at

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  could be good at one of them. And I don't know if I'll ever be good at ... out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to ... exactly pinpoint my feelings, tired of repeating the same old "I don't feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  accept cards than back at home, where lots of small businesses don’t accept ... . Crossing roads. Back at home, if you’re on one side of a major intersection ... , stop in front of the crossing, smile at you, even wave. Back at home, you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  classes at other campuses can cost several hundreds of dollars and take much ... . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in ... ? A problem set at MIT consists of 1-23049234 ALL and then a bunch of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007