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• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I ... parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a sign that reads: "Mr. Bryan O." I wanted to take a picture of him and

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  take us a few days to do this). That interviewer may be willing to do the ... ’t worry if some of that doesn’t make it in by the Nov. 1 deadline (do make ... are patiently waiting, please check out the FAQs below in case I can get

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  . Seriously. I've been writing some form of a blog since I was in the 8th grade ... yourself rolling your eyes every once in awhile (I know I did), but even ... 's the method that matters. It didn't even matter so much that they lost in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  Yep, I'm officially Course 11. A few interesting things have happened this week. - Thanks to a freight derailment in Idaho, I spent most ... time was had by all. I invited a fellow who is actually an alumnus of my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  I think it is different now. It is one thing to understand a fact or ... in Zambia. To make a long story short, the only road to Mwape (the ... aware of how little you know. Conscious incompetence.) As I reflect more

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  dangerous way. Jolt itself is a startup founded in Boston in 2014 that has ... distribution. "This is the product that I wish I had growing up. And it’s the ... is a small clip that attaches to any piece of head-word athletic

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  kitchen-side 3-rooms do not. This is 423, a lounge-side 3-room that belongs ... side of the building. If my door is open I have a strategic view of the ... small half, though it is only a half to the extent that one third is a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  readers may remember that last year around this time I attended a free sneak of the film I Heart Huckabees, and also listed some other sneaks that ... a lecture (which, despite their name, is a rarity, as they mostly show

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their ... through a third-party service other than the MIT application portal
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  . A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one:   What you probably don't know is that, since 1994, all of the ... not more, important than doing the same for innovators, I wanted to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  that being a blogger obligates me to be, of course took pictures. There is a drill press, belt sander, and band saw at each table We also have a little alcove that is home to a laser cutter and a 3D printer (I

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  implement it in a new language -- doing that allowed us to really solidify the ... process, but we are so happy we kept on persisting! He is a grad student in ... was part of a larger problem which is shown in the next video. https

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight line ... what we do is more than a job, but a privilege and an honor. We are ... , and, as I wrote in Early, it would not have been possible without the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  embarrassment. "Oh, yeah, there's this gay rugby club in Boston that Ruth and I ... to Niagara Falls this weekend." Yeah, so I wouldn't say that in public ... Well now, this is a good way to start a blog entry. Megan '08, nine

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Another Cat Post We have kittens and people are sad - thus, there shall be pictures of cats…

  

  This is a really difficult week for every single student at MIT. I do not want to talk about that yet. Instead, I am going to show you some pictures of kittens and cats. I hope that you are okay, and that this helps a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  Victims.” I bet you have heard of Noam Chomsky before, seeing as how he is ... about stories like his in the mainstream media is a lesson in itself ... century English literature exclusively, then the Institvte is probably not a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  If you’re a QuestBridge Finalist that didn’t rank MIT, you are ... email address that you used for your QuestBridge application. Do not begin a first-year application in our application portal until you have
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  planned for later in the year! Hmmm, I think I'm going to need a bigger ... putting "build Admissions Beowulf cluster*" on the To Do list. I ♥ my MacBook, but let me tell you that HD video is not kind to CPUs. On the plus side

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  career fair haikus this post contains your Daily Value of sodium

  

  handshake A spit shower 🗣 and quick talk This is all I got ... job be mine?🎶   Please accept me please I want a job so badly ... hear “app's online” 😒   “Tell me ‘bout yourself” “I code in C on

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  , etc. I agree that it is easier said than done, but I'm in the same boat ... I've been reading a lot of the comments about the applications that are due on Jan. 1. And while what I'll say now is just my opinion

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006