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• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  , got coffee in the lobby, and checked out of the Hyatt (still no sign of ... 're looking for. So this was a great school visit, despite the lack of student attendance. Alison was a wonderful host and gave me a great tour of the entire

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  of time here in the Northeast between heating and cooling seasons (or ... current crop of graduating seniors but is also engaged with the the next ... utterly listenable 51 minutes.Recently, I had the privilege and pleasure of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  , there's usually a table in the back of the room that's piled full of "helpful handouts." Although I've since forgotten what most of the papers ... up in her room. At last count (beginning of the year this year), I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Poaching Imagination Just a few more hours.

  

  In just a few hours, you'll know whether or not you have the option of spending four years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yes, that's right. In just a few hours, a simple flick of a cursor, a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  ! While I'm excited for the summer, with a continuation of my January internship at the BNSF Railway in Texas, I'll also be missing some of the great ... stuff, though very interesting in all of its own ways. The workshop began

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  nerd, Screech, got sick and Zach had to help carry the team. One of his mnemonics for learning the order of the planets was "MVEMJSUNP" pronounced 'me ... : Assuming that the new order of the planets is: Mercury Venus Earth Mars Ceres

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  , Ohio, which as you may or may not know is the violet capital of Ohio ... scared of flying, and Adam always tells me stories about the tolerances of ... favorite place in all of Columbus, the Columbus Zoo. I hadn't been there in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may ... -saturated detail before I had to face the grey ugliness of December in the Midwest ... myself about which person in my row of the theatre would start weeping

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• FAQ / Visit

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• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  in pendulous obligation to the slippery edge of a Sunday night that is ... cesium atom. Editor's note: The following is not for the faint of heart, nor the high of blood pressure, nor the diabetic of pancreas. It's the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  . Demaine, an assistant professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the leading theoretician in the emerging field of origami mathematics, the formal study of what can be done with a folded

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  Students who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed more than two and a half years (five terms) of college may not be eligible because of our residency requirements. If you have been enrolled in college
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  possible. We build snowmen so large that they require the use of ramps, ice ... entry in the works, for those of you who are sick of hearing about it ... the midst of a multi-part snow battle. The first two battles involved

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  On the first Friday of my last semester, I had a choice between two ... rushed coffee break in the middle of the 10am-4pm seminar block. I have ... and Diseases of the Nervous System, 1-4pm—the final elective I need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  completely by one of the YouTubers I watch regularly, Emily Diana Ruth. She ... Illustrator and Premiere. So I decided to take advantage of the remaining time ... fun. This particular experiment is a product of 1) wanting to test the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  Yesterday, the Thiel Foundation announced the first class of the "20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows." Though actually numbering 24, all of the Fellows are indeed under 20 years of age. According to the press release, more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  socioeconomically diverse. 2. There is a quota on the number of international ... admitted each year. In each of the past few years, greater than 2000 international students have applied for freshman admission, making the rate of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  coming so quickly. we've been planning for rush since the spring, of course ... time, there's the question of, will it work? will it be the same? i ... .i can't talk about it too much because spoilers, of course. the hunt is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  . No one at my small high school did research, and we had, to the best of ... can be great experiences for the right sort of student. So if, like me ~10 years ago, this is the first you've heard of ISEF, and you want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  ) spring production of The Full Monty. It's a great question when you really ... the small of your back, if you know what I mean. MTG (and MIT's other ... that inevitably follow) possible. It's only one of the many memories I

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008