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• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

   http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. My name is Jess Kim, and I'm a 2010 alum. I've tried to make sense of ... Hi everyone, The short version is this: please give anything you can to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  VHS tape on a high shelf and hoped I wouldn't see it. Jokes on them ... . Almost every summer, my sister and I tackle a new ropes course. Although I have never thought about it before while on a ropes course, I would guess

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  area, where he works at a pretty awesome solar energy startup called Cool ... - which I had planned a long time ago - coincided with Maker Faire 2011 ... feedback from the web. Greg snapped a picture of me playing some As Tall As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  actors. And, I'll admit, rather appropriate for a theater group that primarily uses its fake Yoric-from-Hamlet skull as a cookie bowl. I asked each ... . Lights (Dan Perez '10) "As a starting point for the lighting design, I was

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  decided to make a super-retro 8bit blocky construction / run away from ... from creepers and during the night I hide away in my bunker and dig dig ... 't anything else to this post. Minecraft is a fun silly game in which you can do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  Under 35 for his pioneering research in comparative genomics. When I sat ... friend who was on his way to a job orientation for the World Wide Web ... so he tagged along and got chosen for one of the positions. He wrote a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one ... the students who are the best matches for MIT come from a wide variety ... more students to MIT than others, even when a student from a nameless

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  . It’s a capstone class for Mechanical Engineering seniors, where the ... . Your experience in 2.009 can depend a lot on your team, so I feel super ... , and ridiculous amounts of confetti, this event is a must-see for any MIT

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  can give a more relevant introduction than I could at age 9. My name is ... research. I am a UROP in the Sheng laboratory, where I've worked since the ... uniresidential singles. I lived in A-Entry for three years, and am going to move to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

   (Piazza is basically a site where students can ask questions and instructors ... ) via a thread titled: "Extended deadline for pset 2": "Hi, can you give ... So as I mentioned in a previous post, I'm taking 6.005 (Software

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  CPW begins a week from today, and I'm really psyched. The weather is ... a talk by Eric Lander (awesome). From 2:00PM - 4:00PM, I'll be ... are the ones I REALLY hope you'll attend (for reasons which will become

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  take from a person. You guys undoubtedly know what I'm talking about ... . Fourth, I'm trying to make a plan for the summer as far as MyMIT is ... , I sincerely hope that you will keep in touch. It's been a true

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  . There are a bunch of people I already know from poetry workshop and the ... I originally registered for 60 units of classes this semester: 18 ... Listener. I registered full time for all four, half convinced I would drop

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  admissions, then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight ... Thailand in Oregon. I saw a TED talk from my current Ph.D. advisor, Professor ... decision day, I unexpectedly hear from students to whom we did not offer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  where you enroll next fall, please make it a better place. I know you can ... difficult: it has been truly painful. If you are among them, then all I can ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  Tonight I won the MIT Marching Band's coveted SPAM scholarship. As those of you who know me can guess, the other six entrants were really no competition for me in the field of SPAM. Here's my award-winning speech. "My

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

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a ... . (Minor spoiler for Paige’s post: You can represent points as coordinates ... involve some more stuff, but don’t worry about that for now."]in a vacuum

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  you used to register for your MyMIT account so I can verify it ... 's entries! I've decided to add to the CPW coverage by creating a CPW tumblr account. For those of you who are unfamiliar with tumblr, it's a great site

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  So last week, I made a trek out to the school down the street for The Game. This was my first time in all four years that I'd been at MIT that ... undergraduate party for food galore. My friend, Steph '07 Me and Elyse '07 (I

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  happened next was inspiring.  I've always thought that you can tell a lot ... sports, the marathon - a sport that doesn't even have a side to cheer for ... transit and large crowds. So perhaps this can still be a happy post.  A

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013