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• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  , where I'm giving a talk about maker portfolios in our admissions process ... similar talk those I've given at Maker Faires in the past, but new to the ... I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  were some of the few things that I actually attended after finding it in ... nd in miserable weather, I did homework. Yep. My host Jennifer (a ... in a Baker House lounge. I thought, hey, might as well get that AP Lit

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  time riding in a group, and I'm still a pretty novice cycler. ... About ... Death again, but if we had, I think I would have been okay. I hope you ... With two weeks left until Bike and Build (donate donate donate!) I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  vigorous vacations. In fact, I'm nominally on vacation right this minute, but ... few days back in Boston, I flew to San Francisco to present about maker ... in the Bay Area, including Danny, Jess, and Rachel, who I got BBQ with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  semester. Early in the school year, I kept getting emails about spending IAP  all-expenses paid in Korea, teaching kids science/English. I never gave ... during IAP. But one night in September, I was checking my emails, writing

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  a photograph. As I walked into Lobby 7, camera in hand, ready to ... actually prospective students, I used Jack Florey in hopes that the name ... Sometime late last night and/or early this morning I received a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  our constraints. my robot was juuuust under 16 in long."][/annotation] I ... finish and turn in my 2.007 notebook by '5:00'... I got back to Next around ... happening." I spent the 45 minutes I ended up having prior to the concert in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tattoo ideas No, I'm not getting a tattoo. But I do need your tattoo advice.

  

  No, I'm not getting a tattoo. But I do need your tattoo advice. As a cheap yet fun giveaway, we are considering temporary tattoos. They would be small -- say, 2 inches square. What I need are your ideas for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of ... four thirty in the afternoon, I needed to. News was not breaking so quickly anymore. I stepped away. I wrote: Standing in the lower courtyard

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  , most anyone can figure out how to put one foot in front of the other, but ... . Plus, I'm sick of running, I'm not in such a hurry. I don't even know ... You can't take any other classes in the Aero/Astro department until

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  transferred, but if I hadn't, things would have been fine. Whatever happens, I ... application. You will log in using the same email and password used to create your application account, and you can log in now to check your decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  Although this blog probably would've been more appropriately posted at the beginning of the year, I think the photographs that our freshmen ... is a freshman preorientation program (FPOP) at MIT, which I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  We have nice things on the walls And I have pictures.

  

  . There are nice things on the walls of my room, too. I bought these in ... towers in New House), and the top floor of House 5. There are around 27 ... rest are singles. We have nice things on our walls. This is something I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  bioengineering! (...Look how I manage to work in all this random MIT stuff. It ... year. Not too shabby, eh? Anyway, I bring up Freakonomics in the first ... dating websites. When I read it in Freakonomics, I freaked out. And then I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  materials to show up on the tracking system (even for electronic documents). I ... PDF, this is exactly how the admissions committee will see it ... documents electronically via Naviance/Docufide, the MIT cover sheet would need

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  , the Ballroom Dance Club offered lessons in Mambo. My friend Jackie and I ... be offering their lessons. I actually became intrigued in ballroom ... started. They will be every Wednesday night in Burton Conner. I might check

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  junior year. i haven't blogged in a while, so i thought i'd write up a post ... the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of ... again :~) as i've mentioned before, i took cms.307 with junot díaz in the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  it up, as in this message left by Phife '04 when I was a freshman ... example, the other night, I finally met Laura '09 in person, discovering her ... Every year, the campus is engulfed by frenetic activity in the week

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  mood has done a total 180 since then, so I feel I'm justified in talking ... shook my hand and said (I am not even making this up), "I saw in your ... knowledge) and major in it. I know it's nice to think that "you can do

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  Thailand in Oregon. I saw a TED talk from my current Ph.D. advisor, Professor ... I have ever seen in my life. I was determined to get to MIT Media Lab ... interest in research and human-computer interaction. 4 years later, I was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020