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• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... question, “What scale do you use?” In truth I didn’t use another scale, and ... give in though, I improvised, and conceived a personal scale on the spot

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  'll see if I can post a video later if it becomes available."]In a Q ... coaster —  you can tell this is a center for intellectual fun." In response ... In February, MIT President —  and noted admissions blog commenter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  in to introduce themselves. Since only admitted students can enter ... missing documents, get them in ASAP so that you can get a financial aid ... us as much specific information as you can; this will help us make your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  statistics, because I'm very interested in satellites, satellite networks, and ... (literally) in October 2020. I am super excited for this, but the first lecture isn't until tomorrow. Jobs In addition to my four (4) classes, I also

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  out." He turned to the other proctors. I took ten steps in the ... work that I’ve been doing, but you can expect to hear plenty more from me in the next couple of weeks :) A final note: the house I’m staying in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  found myself immersed in today definitely wasn't in my schedule, but I ... passionate about the research topic. However, I had tons Hubble-barns of fun in ... symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• 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…

  

  TIM THE BEAVER. He happened to be in Stata the day I was carrying Flat ... waffle, though. In other news, 12 days until I get to see the real Ryan ... : 1. You get to watch Spongebob and not even feel bad about it ("I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  for you. =P Now that I've actually been to classes, I can share them ... .600: Things (i.e. students) act like trees that die in the winter and ... Whew! I ran back from my field hockey game today (we won, 3-1! ya

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  for students in on-campus courses (and you can follow along with MIT ... platforms: How can we present content in the most intriguing way? How do we ... automatically score them? How can we organize and visualize data in a way that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  year in Burton Conner, as I was still settling in and still used to ... this was just about two years ago, but yeah, apparently I can say that ... The first time I had a conversation with Archit Bhise I'm pretty sure

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  something engraved at danger!awesome is insanely simple. I walked in and told ... Earlier this week I purchased a present for a friend. This friend loves wooden puzzles, and so I went with a wooden puzzle box: a box

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  about my bike accident. In it, I talked about how my internal dialogue ... mostly unharmed. The problem is I haven't taken physics in like six years ... blogging brownie to whomever in the comments can come up with the best

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  week so I'm feeling horribly behind in most areas of life. Being sick just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu ... 's going on in MyMIT land? I submitted a big proposal just before holiday

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  we are going to be in Lusaka this weekend or Mwape, but I hope to have ... Yesterday was my team's first full day in Zambia, and what a day it was! We took a minibus from where we're staying to downtown Lusaka

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  . During my overnight stay in Milan, I travelled the roads of time to meet ... and Emilia-Romagna regions. Interestingly enough, a deep foundation in ... can be heard on tracks of Beck's Odelay album). And during the late 1800

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Iron Man is a 15-year-old MIT Student and lives in my freshman year dorm

  

  as Iron Man in the new Iron Man comic series. Jeff Dekal / Marvel   In Invincible Iron Man #7, it was also revealed that she lives in the same dorm I lived in freshman year, Simmons Hall. There, she

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  groups, to find that place where you really do fit in. I'm getting excited ... Jane W asked, Matt, I have a question about CPW. Will we know who our hosts will be before we get there? I know you're just matching us up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  Commons has a cute little pond in the middle which you can ice skate on ...  which creates these massive mechanical/robotic machines which can be used in ... ?!? 8. Lastly, taking in the beauty of Boston On one of my many runs, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  in between. We can't wait to welcome them to campus to join the 4 ... available at > > > decisions.mit.edu < < < You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  you for your birthday wishes =) I'm in the office today, reading ... probably late October. Luckily, I've done so many of them, I can talk about ... opportunity to take a graduate-level course in education (I had many graduate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005