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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  their kids, but his Nobel is kind of off in the corner of his office. He ... is called "Sponge Talk"). I still think it looks more like a giant iron ... Having a brother who's eleven years younger than you has its perks

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  School is back in session, and I know the question burning in the ... see MIT for the first time as a real place and not just a picture in a ... understand that you're a student here, that for the next few years this is the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  McCormick, and being in a community full of other marginalized genders ... plan. WILG also has a meal plan, but it is all cooked by us! We get ... 355 Massachusetts Avenue, a seven-minute walk from main campus. You may

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  a marathon. Why? I’m now the owner of an 8x10 view camera. In my ... camera from scratch, in between classes and a summer job, I finished it in ... few more shots. My favorite thus far is the one I took up in Maine about

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I reset my password?

  correctly, you will be sent an email with a temporary PIN that you will use to
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  Many international applicants don't have a school counselor. The school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it ... without a letter. The Secondary School Report Form is designed for U
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  in the end. Take a deep breath, shake it off, and go crush the rest of ... in their college search. We recognize it's a lot of effort for all of ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  bedtimes aren't as early as mine). They planned a hack, and in my opinion, it ... , although I may be a little gullible, their sign is so well written that I ... called Futurity Island: essentially, a very very tall honeycomb stack of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  recipient of a Presidential Medal in 2001." I will post photographs of the ... address at last week's forum. "David D. Ho, M.D. (HST '87) is the ... AIDS Research Center, a world-renowned biomedical research institute. He

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II this term? Just a thought before I get some sleep: I made ... affection--they all feature sentiments like: Anakin: "To a most powerful

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / En Español

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly ... a list of things I didn’t learn!" Volaris From the ... airplane tires stacked on top of each other and covered in glass. Meeting

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  . Today, I'm wearing a tie, which is my custom for days on which the ... ) applications is complete. This morning, we begin regular action selection ... about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  In a recent post, I wrote, "Our yield was even higher than we ... (though preliminarily there are a few numbers I'm very excited about...)." This left a few people quite intrigued. For example, Laura commented

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Transfer Decisions to be Released Today

  

  accepting around 20 students. Obviously with a selection process that rigorous, we had to decline admission to a great many outstanding students. We know this. And it's not a great feeling. What is a great feeling

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • May 7, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch our robot grow up! Grow robot grow!

  

  excuse is that I'm tired of uploading my pictures for this blog because it's annoying and blog entries without pictures suck). This, however, is too important. I've been building a robot for a class this month and it's now

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Only You Have The Power Only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give…

  

  a good option. Because in life, every hand can be a winner if you play ... I'm still reeling a bit from the last thread, I must admit. Let me ... the power to decide your own worth. Part of resiliency is playing the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  , admitting 16, with 14 enrolling in the fall. This season's admits are a ... admission is tough; with a 6% admit rate, it's especially true for transfer ... . Transfer admission is a small program at MIT. Transfer students, though, are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas the night before the 8.01 final and all through the Haus, everyone was studying like nothing else. Including me. Just not…

  

  No. Really. Finals week starts tomorrow, and my 8.01 final is in ten hours, but I've been studying quite a bit this weekend. Stalling=blog post ... - it is for a class) had been moved to the East Campus courtyard

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... 's entry) to the Club Med in Punta Cana and everything was wonderful except for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  I love MIT, because starting a sentence with "Speaking of mu..." doesn't get you looked at funny. A quick rundown of tonight's activities: I love living in a city, if for nothing else but the food. Last night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004