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• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  realization that MIT offers the type of education that the leaders of our world ... many of you — students and parents — are concerned about the future ... about the economic, social, and environmental stability of the world. For

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  of machine and computer tool use so all the Mechanical Engineering ... the engine is only half of the process. The machining is divided between ... optimize our engine. Here's a picture of a modified engine (from the 2

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  favorites. SEM.142 Sex and the [City] Institute: An Exploration of Gender ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of ... complete a final written project. No prior knowledge of "Sex and the City" is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn ... robot that will play in a competition at the end of January. The goal for ... controlled with joysticks). The goal of 6.270 is to teach students about

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  it to us and also demonstrate the effects of EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) on blood, he drew blood from the head TA in front of the ... picture of his favorite computer game offered by Mad Scientist Software. (I

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the ... .   Pistol First of all, I JOINED THE PISTOL TEAM! (Photo Credit ... ’m improving so much!! I can get almost every shot in the black area of a target

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test ... decision soon, I thought I'd outline some of the reasons I chose MIT for ... the interest of full disclosure, I will say that I chose MIT over Ohio

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  into the hundreds of activities and announcements that line our hallways ... add research, books, art, etc to our archive of inventions. Down the ... manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  semester of MIT. I offer the analogy that MIT semesters give large pillars of ... this side of the pond, and Cambridge has a few tricks of its own to share ... the end of the year. The university is made up of some 30 colleges which

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , and partying, the months of August, September, October, and now, November, passed in rapid succession. One of the things that you learn ... day. You can pray for 36, but it isn't going to happen. One of the best

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  1 reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  brains are somewhat bad at understanding the value of the things we have and exceptionally good at wandering into pools of regret the example ... the instant we went virtual i’d have tried to make different kinds of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  FAQ: Waitlist If you have questions about being on the waitlist, read this first.

  

  the offer of admission from another college before May 1, even if it ... I know that students on the waitlist have lots of questions ... of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  the Beaver (as seen on the collaborative blackboards of Stata Center): For me, the second month of college has ended, and what a wonderful time ... great. * By chance, one of the Protofrosh visited during a special 5

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  deliberate a lot, offering ourselves up to people, yet enjoy the sweet taste of ... In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... course of the summer, I got very close with my roommate but, the summer was

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  . SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p ... . You. All things for the greater glory of blogging. Fun fact No. 1: I ... .441 Biomaterials-Tissue Interactions. Fun fact No. 2: One of the professors of this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2029 are now ... the MIT Class of 2029, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have ... recently here.     Given the competitiveness of our pool, we have also

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  degrees clockwise to face the Harvard bridge, before Kate’s lack of three ... their stories, almost to the point of using it as a conversational crutch ... different that I’m going to tell it anyways. As part of the MIT PE requirement

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010