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• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new ... For the last five years, I have started this post with a jaunty list ... extremely stir-crazy kids have learned to scale the fence between our yards so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  as you right now. I'm about to submit the application to my top choice ... means as much as I'm afraid to press the submit button, in order to have my application read, I have to press it. 2. I don't own a time machine

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  voicecracks and so forth. However, I am happy to say this is quite false. True ... @MIT" survey. I'm talking true life (as opposed to the false, hollow, shadow life ... Innovation Economy crowd in Boston: that of iRobot CEO Colin Angle to Erika

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  seemed to find the session helpful and informative. I did get one question ... the time I was trying to answer the question, I wasn't thinking outside ... I conducted my first of ten meetings this fall in Hartford this week

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  about how media and politics shape each other, but also to have a group of ... rather than struggles to be undertaken. If that was true then (and I'm not ... voting, and faculty have been instructed to avoid scheduling assignments or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  folks won't begin blogging right away, as we have to get them to ... able to tell you more about their own personal stories, which I assure ... provided here. They're all terrific and I'm psyched to have them

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  there was a massive photo flurry. I didn't get to be in the pictures since ... , Burchard Scholars Program Coordinator. I've been meaning to write about ... think it's about time. I've alluded to the Burchards program on and off

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some notes for applicants Thoughts for both EA & RA applicants.

  

  year, respect their time! Try to get your application components to us in ... a bit on your regular action applications. As I like to say, plan for ... While reading applications, I've thought of a number of things of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More info for Admitted Students just a few more things to do

  

  Congratulations to all of the admitted students! I hope you are still celebrating, but I also want to remind you of a few things to do now ... email later this week for the details from us about how to tune in

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  2010, I'd like to take an opportunity to thank the many awesome faculty ... climate change is the number one problem facing humanity, and I want to be ... about how MIT is trying to improve the environment at Environment in depth.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  Intramural Table Tennis team. Or learn how to dance through MIT Ballroom ... On Thursday, I attended Teatro ZinZanni, "a bewitching evening of ... the shore of the bay, not the Charles River. I wouldn't do the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  . I promise to get a better camera for my future productions. ;-) ... Last week, I attended the MUSE Colloquium hosted by MIT’s NSBE ... money to help support their continued research. 1st Place won $500: 2nd

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  about how to get into the animation industry, and he responded with a ... you cry, makes you laugh. We wanted to learn how to do that. MIT has ... /animatics of Steven Universe episodes. It was SO cool to see how such simple and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  When I say that snow was a statistically significant factor in my choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter propaganda, and that means more snow shenanigans! This time brought to you by

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  my approach to MIT (more on that later), I've finally figured out my ... . Actually, I didn't expect it to be this great at all. Even though I loved math in high school, when I came to MIT, I became disillusioned both with

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YoYoPhones The iPod has nothing on this.

  

  Before you get all "zomg" on me. This is *not* the iPhone v2. MIT ... Chun To: Us Subject: Your Mission v2.008 Your mission should you choose to accept is to build 50 yo-yos including at least three parts. This

  • by Bryan
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to be shorter (ending ~4pm) and we get breaks when we need them. During one of the breaks today, Stu, Amy, Mari and I headed over to the Student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  UROPers hung up their lab coats to head home, Shaye and two other undergrads would meet at the lab and if the sky was clear, they would drive up to MIT ... studied extrasolar planets (a planet outside of our solar system), which I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now ... admission. I'm sure that among this group of students we weren't able to admit ... any to do so. The numbers for this year look remarkably like they did

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  more stress-breaking hilarity would ensue I asked to join.* Since I ... decided it was time to get the show on the road. We started our off ... the parade had to do with Latino culture, but I don't think NALGIS was

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008