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• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  some #Content for you: last November, Loren S. '17 and I were interviewed ... fare for the industry. I already posted some of the cinematographic behind the scenes for the drone delivery video, but this interview delves a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  when, while working on the first problem set, I had a lightbulb moment on ... with a focus on (what else?) genetics. What I really want to talk about ... Mendeleev. (See? You can go to MIT and still be a rockstar!) Along with the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  up in the entrance. Curious, I stopped a guy from walking in ... ." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country ... , second from front) which means that I 1) am now deaf, 2) am really mad

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  : All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all ... opinion, I contacted Jessica Banks, a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Computer ... featured on the cover of Wired magazine. I guess that advising a film critic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  RING! It feels so good! I have many pictures from and of the event ... friends in my class that I was really excited to see! We had a great time ... HARRY B. '16!! Yay Harry! He's so Canadian! Of course I needed a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  Board has not yet released them. If you ordered a score report from the ... required from you. The most important rule of having a application missing ... they couldn't bear to send you a single email. Apologies for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  recoiled along a vector perpendicular to Massachusetts Avenue as I gripped ... underneath. I pay little attention to this because I am certain that a bone ... the LOLriocart's G-force simulations backwards in a seat designed for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for ... have to rely on my kitchen for dinner, not a dining hall; I have to wake ... (“with a focus on Biology,” I said, since I’m course XB) could do for each

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  apps. The latest one, from a forty-year-old white guy I had no mutual friends with, said that he “had a thing for Asians.” When I ignored him, he ... communities, but this time, I didn’t know what words to reach for. I asked him

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Update State of the mail, application numbers, and more

  

  , and I'll post another entry so you can have any missing materials ... -March, but you should wait for an official announcement from our office. We ... Here are some updates from the Admissions Office... Applications

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put ... 's Strandbeest stood in the rain on a patch of pavement outside the Media Lab. With

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Same as it ever was The more things change...

  

  much consecutive meetings from 9am until 7pm for me. This morning was a ... see what it was I wrote about one year ago today: For those of you ... some planning for Campus Preview Weekend, and finally a meeting with a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  -related meetings. Today was pretty much consecutive meetings from 9am until 7pm for me. This morning was a meeting about our new viewbook, discussed in Ben ... For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  from French homework to sit down and write to you, but I think it's time ... of homework, with a fourth packet due this coming Monday. I've done ... action admits -- they had a meet&greet sort of event for students

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  I wrote a little while ago about a hack on the Dot raising awareness ... -floor lobby -- or, I guess, there was a fancy portrait. Now there is a very different kind of portrait. I have a few pictures below; the best ones are by

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  [Tonight I worked on a problem set in General Relativity until 4 AM ... laptop display I searched for comfort amidst the suburban silence of post-midnight residential Cambridge and instead found a page of half-finished notes wrung from

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  of the entry] You may recall that last month we put out a call for new ... . '11 Chris S. '11 Snively '11 Look for a future entry with a rundown of ... her entries, I recommend going back and reading them! Ditto for Laura

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  The new baby bloggers were introduced about a month ago, but I have ... about whether she’s going to be a scientist or an engineer.) And I have ... me to do interviews for my first season as an EC (I mean, like, inside

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  ." -- Jane, California "I discovered a super-secret poster of the next ... from it to the 8.01 students. I got the original picture from the page ... Happy Lunar New Year from Peggy and the Office of Admissions! Here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• FAQ / Transfer

  Are there other classes I should take beyond the recommended coursework?

  While we can't recommend specific classes, you may want to compare ... what you would like to major in, you may also want to take a look at the courses offered in each department. You may receive credit for subjects of