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  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  Hi all- I’m taking a break from reading applications to give our Regular Action applicants a quick update. As of today, we have ... more components so you may have received a direct message from us. If you

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  éel at CNRS Salut! I'm spending my summer in Grenoble, France, at the Institut Néel, a world-famous magnetism research center situated in ... what I did there? The French don't quite understand my puns, so you

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.

  

  . Except that it's a little bit warmer. And a lot more humid. Not nearly as ... . And then the guys whose job it is to shovel snow don't really have snow ... may be hard to tell from the picture, but that's a minimum of two inches

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  classes in 2003 (3.091, 21A.109, 18.01A, 8.01 and a seminar). I don't know ... So I realized that despite not having left MIT, I haven't written on this thing in a really long time. Part of it came from my own thinking

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  with the uncertainties, we also keep a wait list of students. We won't ... Each year we aim for a class of approximately 1,100 students. Based ... (known as the "yield"), we admit about 1,400 students. However, it isn't
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  and won't be for a while. I did not submit any kind of portfolio, but I ... Classes But You Don't Have To Write All Those Damn Papers. Take a video ... something on the admissions website about a Maker Portfolio and got nervous

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by a tractor? (For reference, this is what I mean by muddy: ) It's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2018-19 Application Essay Questions

  

  decide what to write about, pretend a friend you hadn't spoken to in awhile ... forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear that there's no ... underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is make sure everything is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  There" * Nora Bayes - "You Made a Chicken of Your Mother, but You Can't ... Tolerance" * Phil Ochs - "There But For Fortune" * Phil Ochs - "Love Me, I'm a ... allowed by the FCC, Turner and the lawyers for both stations found a legal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President ... ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  signature ribs.  Winnie is basically a carnivore, and I'm trying to eat more ... Weirdest conversation overheard: A parent chanted "WE LOVE NEW YORK ... 's hard to overhear more than a phrase or two when you're just going about

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  I haven't the foggiest idea what this all means. A dark myth of ... docked the commvee for some petrol while the kids fetch a cuppa and some ... safari. She also insisted I begin a web journal which sounded like a simply

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  Though I haven't had internet for the past week, there has still been ... Happy Cooking! ----------------- Greetings, Burton-Conner, Just a ... :30 p.m. in the Porter Room. We have obtained carts full of the biggest (i

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  I was not seated on a jury today at the Middlesex Superior Court, so I'm back to work tomorrow, hopefully posting a new Questions Omnibus ... chisels away at them. It couldn't find a storage device on the market that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all ... thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing you learn at MIT is how to manage without. I believe this. If you're a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blog Links If you have a blog, share the URL in this thread!

  

  I haven't disappeared, really! Just haven't had a ton of things to ... cool to collect links to other blogs somewhere. So if you have a blog, leave a comment with the URL. Let's see how many we can get!

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  Kevin C. '17 (pictured above at the Porsche Museum) is now a grad ... the MIT Formula SAE team as an undergrad. What follows is a post Kevin ... friends and I traveled to Europe for a different sort of attraction: single

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  on a rather painful hike in the snow. This camping trip was a little ... hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T ... way to the cabin to grab some food. There was a beautiful view on the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn't figured out how to be everywhere at once. We can't visit every high school ... MIT: If you don't know much about MIT, this might be a good place to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  ’s oil painting "Nonchaloir". I made this as a homework assignment for 21M ... joy and fulfillment too, just in a different way). And for that I'm ... ! There are a ton of resources on campus for making and enjoying artwork

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023