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• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  experience at MIT? If you don't mind, can you tell me a bit about yourself ... 't come off as arrogant - I just wanted to let you know that you can have a ... you think that my sort of person can still do well at MIT, that's great

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some things to do now if you were admitted to the MIT Class of 2014.

  

  our best to show you MIT. Join the Facebook Group: Facebook is a great ... MyMIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only ... solidified, whichever is sooner. Also, when you fill out your CPW registration

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  concert So sad. The best I can do is a photo from the concert: 2. Did you ... , Honolulu, Hawaii, is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she majors in biological engineering, music and theater arts. A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  essay(Mitra) Clarification on what exactly a "good match" is (Matt) But ... that you pursue things that interest and challenge you. These can be ... , it looks for attributes that you can demonstrate in just about any

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  , check it out! Join the Facebook Group: Facebook is a great place to meet ... . Here it is: MIT Class of 2013. (...and international students can join ... information as you can; this will help us make your CPW experience as good as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from ... happens is a new store opening up or a car crashing into a building every ... : Now that you got down the dance moves, it is with pride that we release

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  regardless of where you end up for school, you'll be able to get a great ... should be a momentous occasion, where I have something important to say (I ... wrote, "I just wish the bloggers themselves posted more." Well, there have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  and BC. A fair amount of time is definitely not what you have right now ... you. Behold, a godsend! Kris knows math! Kris can help you with 18 ... . This is in no way helpful, especially since there is now a human being in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM ... 've known you for like a year and we've never actually met." "I know, you ... were still able to actually complete the Hunt, which is a rather

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  such a vibrant, creative place that if you can't find something amazing ... you know that MIT has its own web video service? There's really no way ... -speed films. There's also a general MIT video gateway. MIT's home page: It

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  /O Brush is a project by Kimiko Ryokai in the Tangible Media Group at the Media Lab. Her site describes the invention: I/O Brush is a new drawing ... can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  another major or a minor or two. You can also change majors (as I did in my ... assigned to a major, you choose it. You can learn more about this at the ... . Maybe there's a teacher with whom you've had such discussions with, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  . Find a partner! Being Tim is Hard Work, and you need someone to guide you around since you're quite literally flying blind in there. This took me ... wondering how you know you're meant to be Tim- the answer is, you'll feel it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  Tomorrow is, yes, the First of May[?], which means those of you who ... , academic papers, etc. "Choose a username that you won't be embarrassed ... nicknames of a sort for people, so consider whether you'd be comfortable being

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  forward." --"There is a rhythm to walking and running that may be difficult to achieve with a three-legged machine. A kangaroo is the closest thing ... : All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  allotted. At MIT, there is a proud culture of making things (i.e. robotics ... the judges and the public.   Ta-da! A giant stag head. You can ... experience whatsoever with anything at all. MakeMIT is a hardware hackathon on

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  you can sit and watch the stars.  Five of us went to follow him on a ... actually saw Cathie Y. '16 there on a different MITOC adventure! Once all 18 ... and informed us that there was a place in the woods nearby called the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  transportation system in the ceiling where you could put a package into a machine ... … Explored the Google store because Caitlin is a Google fanatic Bought an ... Malaysian food Walked the High Line, which is a beautiful train track turned

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  , where you can see archival versions of your favorite web page, going back ... Archive, which is a nonprofit. [...] The Internet Archive also sponsors a ... lending a book out can approach $2 for some libraries; printing out a black

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am ... Thermodynamics” (which is the subtitle of this post when said by someone with a stuffy nose) is a real mystery to me, because I haven’t really gotten my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016