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• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  cubes in a 3D world...The game is divided into two main modes, Alpha and ... 't anything else to this post. Minecraft is a fun silly game in which you can do ... entirely: Minecraft. What is Minecraft? Quoth Wikipedia: a sandbox building

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  our community. And – as I have – a great many stay in this country for ... In January, President Trump signed Executive Order 13769, or "travel ... for residents of certain countries. This past weekend, a group of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  of several language classes is available in condensed form: three hours a day, five days a week, but the benefit is that you get an intensive ... for the spring. I was given a slot in the French 1 class and am pretty

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  in the special sauce that makes MIT such a mecca of talent, but it ... with a degree in Brain and Cognitive Science, he entered the Harvard ... fide graduate, Berry remains active in the MIT community. He is on MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is ... scope of MIT energy research, explore how to best match MIT expertise with global needs and produce a plan for a cohesive initiative to tackle the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  year, a difficult decision given how awesome so many of our applicants ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... Class of 2016 are now available at decisions.mit.edu You can log in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

   recently won (!!) with a set of extraordinary women in NASA. Maia is currently ... fumbling to turn off the recorder in the last few seconds. Despite going to a ... can find them in stores “LEGO is currently tweaking the design that I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Brought Something? Um, no. No, we didn't.

  

  Colin '10, Nina '08, and Timur '10 waiting for it to snow. A couple of hours after I left them to go back to my room, snow it did. It wasn't much ... everywhere. That was in no way what I'd been looking forward to. Maybe

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  Congress just raised the debt ceiling, after a protracted deeply partisan ... (D-NY) suggested using the 14th Amendment to the Constitution as a ... obligations. In response, Sen. Cornyn (R-TX) dismissed the idea as "crazy talk

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  this blog post I’m going to go back to grading. (“Grading” is a word ... ’s Random Hall weekly-ish study break. In honor of Pi Day Irina O. ’15 and ... .909859317102744... π pies over the internet.   (A secret: the pies are a lie. Their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  Application Tracking portlet in MyMIT. The system is supposed to display a ... behalf of all of us, here's a big public thanks to them.) So this is just ... we needed to see midyear grades in order to make a decision, and they

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Break New Ground Join the NEW MIT-Chile Program

  

  , technology, engineering and science is happening in all parts of the country. MIT's primary international program, MISTI is a pioneer in applied ... ,000,000 and one of the world’s highest economic growth rates, Chile is a

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  interest in learning how to make forceful arguments in written form. Studies ... Lecture: W EVE (7-10 PM) (14N-112) ______ Writing an autobiography is a ... in a computational framework, Lagrangian formulation, action

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  class last week (in Chinese, of course). I didn't see any masks over here but there there is an annual carnival+fireworks+bonfire event that I ... to Midsummer Commons along with a sea of people. I was worried that I

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  Measurement and Instrumentation. Basically, this is a lab class where we learn ... as velocity profiles in a pipe or internal pressure of a soda can ... have a 40 page paper to write, but such is life. The class is also an

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  . Maybe I need more people to talk to. In any case, that video is now ... /suggestions/lifehacks/ways-to-not-be-clueless-in-a-kitchen, leave those below in ... in Maryland for about two weeks now, all by myself, working this NASA

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is MIT Code?

  -250, taking Linear Algebra, which is the unit distribution: 4 hours in class per ... MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Introduction To ROTC At MIT A new guest-author blog in response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC programs at…

  

  this past spring. In response to a variety of inquiries regarding ROTC ... our country. A scholarship usually accompanies involvement in ROTC, though there is an application process whether you are in high school or

  • by ROTC
  • August 14, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ‘Twas the night before Christmas Happy holidays to everyone!

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with dozens of McGanns in ... traditional decorating of the tree. Just a few miles from my house is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  Gilberte Furstenberg (teacher of French III, a class we're both taking). The homework I'm doing right now is part of a unit called Cultura, where we ... things that come to mind when we think of a "good job," for example, in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006