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• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  announced on the blogs when we mail the decisions.Selection time is a very ... how things are looking here. Admitting a class is hard work, full of ... A few notes from selection: No decisions are yet final. We are still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Collection of Curious Creatures at the MIT Zoo terrasaurs, quetzals, and portal cows, oh my!

  

  There was another hack on campus this morning! This time, it would appear that some hackers decided to turn the Infinite into a zoo, featuring ... -- you will notice that these animals are allowed to freely roam the campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Get Your Wii On. A Dome Hack!!!

  

  itself hacked. Photo Credit: Eric Schmiedl More photos can be found here ... back to one of my favorite video games from when I was a kid, Zelda! The symbol is the Triforce symbol. From zelda.com The Triforce The holy

  • by Bryan
  • November 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Reunion Weekend MIT alumni return to campus.

  

  catch up and celebrate. Reunion Weekend is a very exciting time here! I actually was out of town this weekend, so I can't blog about the Reunions. Instead, take this time to read up on a few MIT alumni that I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15, at 12:15 PM EST

  

  Hi Everyone, Early action committee is almost over! I never knew I ... be posted ONLINE: On Saturday, 12/15 at 12:15 PM EST. You probably knew that by reading the title of this blog. But you also need some

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 10, 2012
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I request that my scores not be considered after submitting my application?

  Scores cannot be redacted from applications after they have been submitted. We encourage you to look at this blog post to better understand the rationale and details of our testing requirement.
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  4.500, Intro to Design Computing, my favorite class this semester, is a design class with a project every week. The first four projects ... Rhinoceros, learning how to use AutoCAD took a bit of time. Eventually I

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  . This is actually a good pic, though I bet my mom would disagree (she was ... One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some ... "Gentlemen's Club" 19th birthday party, which is why I'm dressed up. July '05

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  ’m trying to figure out if I can be a grownup and still like comic books. Life ... then make it even better. About a tenth of Random Hall is currently ... class is a prerequisite for almost everything else I want to take

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  location was a blessing. Yesterday, it was so hot and today, it is so cold ... , yeah, kinda, I can't wait. I simply can't be cynical about a thing like ... freshman year, stayed on campus, that is, working with the LIGO burst team

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our coursework can leave students feeling hosed. So it's only fair that students
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  up. “Is this going to hurt?” I said. “No,” he said, “it’s a marker.” He ... next two where the first two should have been. Greg picked up a needle ... horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  naked velocity. It's dark and the asphalt is a gooey chocolatey blur ... -crushing death is sitting somewhere with me in the toddler basket of a supermarket ... recoiled along a vector perpendicular to Massachusetts Avenue as I gripped

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  Now that CPW is over, things are a little less hectic around the ... ) in Phoenix next month (more on that to come). This weekend is a four ... from admitted students (do you have any? Leave them in the comments

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT if I am not selected as a QuestBridge Finalist?

  If you applied for the QuestBridge Match but were not selected as a Finalist, you are still welcome to apply to MIT through our Regular Action cycle using our application portal. If you are not a Finalist, you must
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  whose central goal is to address the question: "How can people and ... . "Working" had a profound affect on me as I thought about work, and the basic ... that stayed with me for many years was called Car Hiker, a profile of Al

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  The things I do with my Friday afternoon Really, though - how could I resist?

  

  ridiculously quickly, but this is now on the Dot outside the Green Building: It's a chair! But wait, there's a sign on the back! I ran home ... Building is 54, and the Dot is McDermott Court) to check on some cell

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 9, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What do you mean by “MIT Speak”?

  MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.03, which is 5-0-7, for 6-2. At MIT, all of your friends would understand exactly what you're saying. (You have to enter "MIT Code" in the ask field
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  it a few days ago! (Sorry Rishi!) Anyhow, this is certainly one of the ... me, was always a dream, a place where I could imagine myself at, but ... a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  you're at MIT, though! Join the MIT Cycling team. Don't have a bike ... On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city ... to walk our bikes down a steep set of stairs, across a path underneath

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006