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• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

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

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  , but a few key ones. 1) Classes are harder 2) Classes are in your major ... ). Unless you kicked some serious butt in a crazily academic high school or ... , in each of these topics to choose from, but that's for a later entry

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  relevant to students in 2016 A.D.): Lastly, here is an 1895 ... reported that "few, if any institutions, in the United States have a higher ... 't have a cohesive campus until 1916, much to the lamentation of some

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  same story is told, in turn, from the perspective of Rob, Laura, and their pet fish. In this case, whereas Mitra has provided a professional ... constituencies if they get a picture with Bono flashing a peace sign in his purple

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  . One way to bypass this limitation is to launch a telescope in multiple ... Networking is a funny thing. It can be formal (and slightly ... chat/climb in the Northeast this fall. ^This is networking! Or take

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  An Olympic Hack Floating rings above Brigg's Field?

  

  have their own lengthy Wikipedia page, in addition to a chronology at ... . Was it from a hacker him/herself? ;) Regardless, here are the rings in ... Upon entering MIT, every freshman gets a list of "101 Things To Do

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  their salary, but how much funding they got for their startup in series ... area. the first one was an invitation from a co-intern, who sent it in a group text with all the other company interns in the bay. it was a link to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  . You're in spot A-12." Okay, I thought. A midsize instead of a compact? Great, whatever. Then I reached spot A-12. Sitting in said spot was a ... in science and engineering fields being a big priority for MIT, and

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  effort you have put in to letting us know how much you love MIT. As someone ... It's been over a week since the May 2 reply deadline, and we know ... from the wait list. This year, we had a record-high percentage of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a student who I haven't seen in a long time stops by my office. In the process of catching up, he asks me about how one takes a year off from MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  . This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me ... attend MIT and decide to wear the ring in the ad? Is this deep-level nerd-in ... Early this morning I got a text from my friend and former student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  : Delicatessen is set in an unspecified time and place with the appearance of a ... a whooping $6 in 26-100 were: Fantastic Planet Courtest of Wikipedia: The film depicts a future in which human beings, known as "Oms" (a

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  , sliding into a seat in 35-225 at 10:05, right on MIT time, ready to take the ... lived in Madison and camped with me at Devil's Lake when I was a baby, so ... , and I would do the whole thing again in a heartbeat — the missed Friday

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... into reality. I'm not sure if I believe in that. What I do believe in is ... , and I lived in Simmons, so I had to cross a tower and go down two floors

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is ... announcing these prompts last year: People often ask me, "How do I stand out in ... primary goal in reading these essays is to get to know you, the applicant

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  like someone asking, "So, how's the oxygen situation in Cambridge? Is ... . The fact that MIT is a science and engineering school, and even ... school in a small-to-medium-sized town in Ohio, and although I had my share

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... 'll admit the line is a bit fuzzy in some cases. Consider, for example, 12 ... In my mind, [annotation note="Many, but by no means all. Giving a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... '05 (now a first-year grad student in bioengineering at Stanford) always ... Roland: ""I firmly believe this value [for the mass of a quark] is correct

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  (This is a very rough, more fleshed-out English translation of this ... opinions about Japan. "In the international age that is the present, why are ... , my parents were planning on going to a wedding in Korea and decided to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  able to work close to home is a plus for me, but in my case, it still ... stations in the Cambridge-Boston area, is subsidized by MIT, a perk available ... Pike. In a world where attention seems split and starved, the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012