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  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  my job I am constantly amazed by the caliber of character, intellect ... for everyone else. I hope you do. I know you will. I'm closing ... .  Congratulations to the Class of 2016. I wish all of our applicants well. It's

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  Occasionally as I lie in bed at night puzzling over the hecticness that is so typical of life here at MIT, I hear piano chords playing on repeat from the floor above. I always smile. I know the musician, and I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  [Tonight I worked on a problem set in General Relativity until 4 AM ... laptop display I searched for comfort amidst the suburban silence of post ... sea in the sweet wet velvet of winter eve, I looked up and saw a beach

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  . Relatedly, I've been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology at MIT, so I figured I might as well take this opportunity to clear up some of ... related. Can I get involved in nanotechnology at MIT? Absolutely! In

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  Lobby 7. Paul and I will be on Smallish Momenta (an anagram of "Simmons ... ); Snively will be on Death From Above; and I'd assume Bryan will be on Too Much Clue. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post here four

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  size of the fire and frequency of water dumps), I can't help but think ... luckily only one house was destroyed and nine others were damaged. I ... . I was happy to be able to help out. Now, as I watch from a hotel in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  ingredient in healing. I have always had a gut feeling that the whole closure thing was wrong, but it wasn't until I heard Ed Linethal's talk The Predicament of Aftermath: Reflections on 9-11 and Oklahoma City that I

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  ) to me (in the comments or via email). I hope you can join us! MIT ISEF ... international students at ISEF, I will be presenting a shoptalk: Admission to US ... , and Ian '10 address the crowd. On Wednesday night, I went out to dinner

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  to regular action for further consideration. I am often asked why MIT ... , and I know that those students will be very competitive during the ... ) I know I speak for all of the admissions officers when I say that this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  -- I can go into his office and plop down on a chair and whine about my ... was really funny. My friends and I didn't get tickets, so we didn't get ... -shirt that said "In the future, I'm famous." UROP: Morgan Sheng's lab in Course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  meals. And the laundry you don’t have to do. You’re worried how the future ... application. Because fears and insecurities aside, you want to see how far you ... what will carry you far. You’ll realize how limited your time is. How

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT TechFair THINK Competition A national science competition "intended to motivate high school students to think about problems related…

  

  related to human lives and how we might mitigate or combat them with science

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Just 5 Days Left! Mystery Hunt begins in 5 days.

  

  doling-out begins. So the question is: How can the group guarantee that 99

  • by Bryan
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  still profoundly conflicted about how to deal with the creative fan armed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  at 40% of responding American universities). I understand the concerns; these are uncertain times. However, I wanted to share this brief to ... changed. I also wanted to share this letter that President Reif sent to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  professor teach? [answer at the end of the entry] I remember sitting in my MIT freshman calculus class back more than a decade ago (wow, I feel old ... person I had ever met from Singapore. He was very nice and extremely

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  RAHHHH IT SNOWED AGAIN!!! As the blogs’ resident snow enthusiast, I consider it my sacred duty to announce the [annotation note="i.e. the first one where snow actually collected on the ground and that I was awake for

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Tuesday, 12/17/24, at 6:28 PM ET exactly what it says on the tin

  

  Sometimes I feel like an alien because [annotation note="a fact that ... there's SO MUCH MEDIA OUT THERE and I don't mind sitting/driving/walking/doing dishes in silence"]I don't really listen to music.[/annotation] So I asked

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 10, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT. I have to tell you, this is one hell of a team. Every year I tell ... painful. If you are among them, then all I can say is that MIT is just ... wherever you go, if you choose to do so. I'm closing comments on this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  What do Chancellor Grimson, The Salvation Army, and I have in common ... junior year thus far. Let me elaborate. Around 1 pm on January 20, I ... , each with its own faculty facilitator and student co-facilitator. I was

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012