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• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  app (or take it to the post office for postmarking). I am pleased to see ... call in any updates. Don't worry if your essay doesn't format as you ... substantial time to process all of these forms that come in right at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  I be proud in four years to call myself an alumnus of the school? Don ... replies throughout this week. I assure you, we have a space in the class for you. If you've mailed in the reply form with an affirmative response, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe ... breast cancer, or maybe it's because I’m reading this great Pulitzer Prize winning book on cancer, or maybe it's because I just took a tour of the Koch

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  'm reviewing and going over while studying for the test I have in this class on ... angular momentum equations until I get the variables I want. We'll see how ... Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in ... getting in the way of their schoolwork.
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  would have thought I could be envious of a pre-frosh?), because Dr ... Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the ... Center are thronging with people - and I know thing are only going to get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  some things that New York just does better. I had forgotten how ... dining hall. I look forward to these dinners each week – the people in my ... being drawn back to the ice. Isabella and I are both amazed by how our

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  on optical frequency combs, which she describes as "so cool." Sadly, I can't join in, because I really need to be reading applications. As I ... ," followed by what I'm sure will be a nice reception with the students. Ian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  that on your TI-89. First off, yes, I am a blogging delinquent. Ben Jones, I should be arrested. But in my defense, I have had a viral infection rendering my voiceless and without a desire to eat. So I think my

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  like [annotation note='In fact, now that I think of it, many aspects of ... . I am still Tarnished but no longer maidenless. Meanwhile, in Ceri I ... I continually upgrade my skills and abilities. In this CMS thesis, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I ... . And then, my favorite Big Wheel of the day came out. I was engaged in ... , bandanna, and helmet. I got back to my dorm (I lived in the dorm over the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  now, many of you have probably heard of (or use) this, but I'm in love ... go here to see how I defined the station, what I liked ... first two seasons are on there, so I have to figure out how I'm going to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Designing MIT for democracy why is MIT so decentralized and chaotic? BECAUSE DEMOCRACY

  

  , explicitly foregrounds these concerns in discussing how the MIT education, and ... MIT is like, I always talk about how it's decentralized, even ... While reading Whitney Zhang's article in the Tech on the history of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived on the same floor ... that most of the freshmen who are placed in Maseeh end up moving out, I ... half of the art had already been retrieved by the time I popped in to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  mountain face, skis and poles left behind in the dust, I asked him how he was ... … Day One Hello! I am currently typing this in 14 degree weather, snuggled ... management tools and strategies that I can implement in the future. Only two

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  this. I first played with the website in 2009, when it used Flash. It ... SnowDays is a snowflake maker, and I think by far the best one. I hate snow, but I like snowflakes. You have this triangle that you draw

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  in a place called "Malinckrodt". (I wasn't an Orientation Leader in ... - basically, I'm hoping that in time her intrinsic fashion sense may somehow rub ... glory of Tuesdays, in which I get up at 7 to bus over to Harvard for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does MIT help student entrepreneurs?

  the entrepreneur(s) in sessions that provide practical, day
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  , in the forecast, there was very little actual snow expected, but when I got up in the morning,[annotation note='over the course of the day ... matter in the entire month…until Friday," to which I say, "weak sauce

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  occasion of their graduation. I told how ambivalent I felt (about myself; about MIT) on my own graduation day in 2013, but how much, in hindsight, I ... undergraduates, whom we admitted, in the main, four years ago. In the intervening

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017