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• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  date for documents to show up in the tracking system -- this means there ... now. January is the last month for Regular Action applicants to take ... to review all of these choices in the high school list from China

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  is less caught under the firehose, so there tends to be more ... is bad). So I came in to D-Lab and did a lot of practice welds, and ... don't build up in the room. You turn on the shielding gas, check the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  form in plenty of time, thank you very much. (The tenth page was ... . I'm tired just thinking about this. Moving on to....FEE results! The ... which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  Interconnected.is chanced to stop by the store to buy a handle for his old Corolla ... does a disservice to the small miracle of beauty that is this movie and ... business they do is done through eBay - and so their storefront is mostly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  the move from our old site that Ben built back in 2006 to this, the site ... people, brought together by their interest in applying to MIT but with much ... in the service of narrow goals. Be too scared to change for the better

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  provide a link? amrik wrote (in response to my post on the Clark medal), "Is ... in "Admissions Science" in college, to which the reply is often "Really ... materials in the application. Is this true. "Another thing is that my life

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  -along It's hard to overstate my satisfaction with how much this event is ... isle at Shaw's, trying to pick the optimal set of juices to buy. He can ... Random instead of having to lie on your back in the Sistine Chapel. Bring

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  morning, again, and lab work in the afternoon. “Work” is a generous term, as ... much as I could before it dripped to the pavement. Once the ice cream ... , in order to make the assailant scary, to make the danger real. I needed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... "Tuesday is the new black" with the generally bizarre happenings yesterday in ... the most fantastic and ethereal book that I've ever read in my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  'm going to school in Boston remark on how cold it is, but the most jarring ... as in high school, but the problem is that I’m more naturally an early ... start around 11:00 am, so I’m able to sleep in much later. But yeah, these

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  , mom     One of the best ways to learn is to teach, both ... sociologist working in the field of internet and game studies whose most recent ... social media, broadly defined. In short, I wanted to design and teach the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  is so much to do left in the city. We didn't have the chance to travel ... (which is apparently the only castle in North America to ever hold royalty ... Italy after begging my parents into debt to pay the EF Tours fee, and then

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  entire life is in this car, pretty much, if you leave out all the friends I ... dad is in the front seat; I'm in the back, sharing space with enough bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  public in New England to give way, on the ground that the Union should be ... giving a lecture in the Dowse Institute in Cambridge, and shall have time for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  . My advice to you is to get involved in the UROP program here. I forget ... before dead week is pretty stressful, as every class tries to cram in that ... opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  noticed a box of books in one of the hallways. To be precise, the box of ... juniors, or even cynicists) can do to combat poverty. Every August in the ... 's most of the freshman class!) signed up to clean up harbors, work at the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  MIT). This is what I do in the day, except for weekends. Not only do I ... for multiple robots to get to a destination. The goal this summer is to ... real, or simulation-to-real. After that, the next goal is to improve the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  is so difficult to answer is because of the problems I discussed in the ... foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article ... dependent, and thus it is most usefully and reliably deployed for falsifying

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  the first thing I need to say is that our process is individual ... in their caseload. So our job is to look deeper -- what's really going on in each case? Quite often it is the case that the student with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  hours to the Internet - aka procrastination. But is it me or are we all ... to?  - Procrastinating.  I don't blame us. The Internet these days is ... dashboard (Tumblr is a micro-blogging platform by the way). Usually it'd look

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012