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• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  in a play, and organizing a student rock concert to raise money for the ... love to do - great. But sometimes you need to just take a nap in the ... Hi all! A few updates over what is, for us, a long weekend. First, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time ... engines: To see a video of my engine running, click here! I didn't get it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to welcome them to ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Instructions on how to receive your decision online.

  

  decision online, you will need to have registered for a MyMIT account and you ... do not wish to receive your decision online, you'll want to take a ... Hi folks, I'm pleased to let you know that we're on schedule to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  Meet Riri Williams.   Riri is a fictional 15-year-old black ... recreates a rough version of an Iron Man suit using parts "borrowed" from campus. Presumably, she spent a lot of time at the Stata Loading Dock

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  of getting to them without a car was too high. I've found that the walkability of a city is, in fact, important to me. And although I do like ... 't always a way to solve for x. What I also know is that I could have this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  one if i had to write a literary analysis on my blog posts, i'd talk ... 't) want to be alone. two in a season of secondhand joy, i talked about how ... go to a fifth, last sunday night. i arrived in the room a few minutes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  Vegas. I had the chance earlier to go to CES but I passed on it. A group ... to spend the money. I didn't realize how big of a deal CES was. Then I ... really about to spend the money to book a flight to Vegas to go to CES in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  got to see applicants admitted and then watch them become a part of our ... walking up the steps to Lobby 7 every morning. That was a habit that started for me when I was a freshman and when I came to work at MIT it became a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  workshop, which is about to come to a close. I had a wonderful experience, and it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be! I might blog about it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I am taking my tests ... be able to consider you during Early Action (just a few weeks later) if ... complete and you did not match to a binding school. If you take MIT off your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  , paradoxically, become a rather depressing pastime of mine. Sometimes, it's fun to vanish into a world somewhat tangential to reality, somewhat well ... strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike, who are super awesome. They were really a lot of fun to hang out with between phone calls. Plus, I got to talk to a bunch of the newly admitted

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Incoming freshmen, come to the Activities Midway tomorrow! Find a group where you can continue your hobbies and try something new.

  

  Kesem table (#125) to meet my fellow counselors. For a list of groups ... assignments. If you want to see a clearer map, click here. ... service? Want to get involved with these activities at MIT? Then, come to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  weeks, I went from programming a button to turn on a light, to designing and building a robot that could learn to recognize people’s voices. And ... circuit”. Feel free to skip this section, but click this block to read a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  love with a problem and wanting to do something about it. Most people ... extreme poverty up close. On a trip to Zambia, he became amazed at how clean ... on the path to starting Water.org, with a brilliant civil engineer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The HackMIT 2016 Puzzle Just Launched and it'll (probably) take you all across the Internet

  

  from around the globe. Over a 24-hour period from September 17th to 18th ... .org to register. There is a randomized lottery to get in, but if you want ... binary to hex code that also just so happens to be a URL, writing Python

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether ... learn to be pseudo-law students by writing case briefs. A good friend of ... write a really great paper. We're hoping to get it published somewhere if

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  students to take advanced classes out of a sense of competition, rather than ... school or working 20-30 hours a week to support their family – or who come ... students to worry less about this question. Half a century ago, B. Alden

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016