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  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  With Campus Preview Weekend just a few weeks away (sign up here if you haven’t done so already), early spring is an exciting time for ... …but don’t quote me on that. For all the newly admitted students out

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  didn't happen in a fancy board room or anything -- they held it in a normal MIT classroom (it looks a lot like the room where I took 18 ... Chemistry). MIT held a press conference to announce Prof. Diamond's win. Here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  that we couldn't hire Snively as a blogger, despite a significant public ... Happy New Year! I hope you guys are having a great 2008 so far. Congrats to all of you who got your applications in on time. :-) And being a

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist We have admitted 20 waitlisted students.

  

  a place on the waitlist. But it just isn't ethical to keep that many ... will lose your deposit at the other school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist offer) or decline it. The waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  door of the COOP to find— It didn’t budge. There was a man standing ten ... “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters, 12 syllables, and a state name that I am still completely incapable of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering ... , working within a budget, and gain unifying engineering experience.   ... construction of a high quality functioning alpha prototype. The large teams

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... admitted students. Although a lot of my time is spent preparing for Campus ... area, you should check it out -- it's a great opportunity to meet some

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was dedicated to LEGOs. I have three brothers, so we racked up quite a few LEGO ... got to do the same thing! Except instead of LEGOs, we started with a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Public Art And one fantastic sandwich

  

  campus to the clover food truck to satisfy a craving for their famous soy ... mulch, bushes, brightly colored spring flowers to be planted, and a big ... and a police officer directing the flow of lunchtime walkers as a young

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  won season passes to Astroworld from a failing radio station back in my ... . So last Thursday, one of my friends, Shaye, who has a radio show on WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short ... that this happened quite a while ago. My days have been filled with RA ... twelve different authority figures telling us not to kill the kids and a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  ="89479" image5="89478" image6="89477" /] P.S.: Why do I look like I'm giving a ... This is an (albeit short) update of this post from a while back ... : the MIT Monologues and a class I developed and taught: 18.S190. I plan

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  About a week ago, on one particularly high-stress night (it was one ... people are feeling a little down and/or exhausted at this point in the semester. So based on suggestions from some of you, I'm going to host an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  We've just launched a new MITAdmissions video. It's called "MIT ... told me that "MIT can be either a steamroller or a candy store: it depends entirely on how you look at it." We wanted to make a video that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  differently over there. Namely, instead of 2 or 3 tests a term and then a final ... counts for pretty much your whole grade. While this is not such a big deal to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More HS Summer Programs Some academic and research opportunities for students to consider.

  

  To accompany today's entry about MIT summer programs, here is a ... Mathematics (HCSSiM) Honors Summer Math Camp (HSMC) Program in Mathematics for ... these summer programs as a thing to do "to look good on a college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  America won't be until April 8, 2024. I hope that as a species we begin to ... A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  , and a "green" choice won't mean a sacrifice. You can read more articles ... While we continue working 7 days a week toward selecting the Class of ... Sadoway. Speaking of Professor Sadoway, there was a nice article about him

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in a quad in Baker House. Four women, one big room, and all the fun and ... week. It was not uncommon that year to meet someone who would say, "I don't

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  it wouldn't be a problem. A couple days later and my online schedule ... about it isn't as much a chore as it is a reconfirmation of your bond with ... As a freshman you will probably be taking two sciences, a math, and a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008