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• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  go for MIT interview?" Eric responded that it would be a good idea to ... here. Anyone with a 720 has the potential to do just as well at MIT as ... once a week or honor organizations that don't do anything." To us, it

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama aka Minesweeper Monday EP 2

  

  'congratulations' at the end. i tried to make it a caption but yo no se. "]Note[/annotation]. ... In this episode, which was most certainly posted on a Monday, I talk about making a pizza, and how Simmons hall doesn't have a sheet pan in any

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  For $35 to $250 per square centimeter, you can have your name written on a spacecraft! The MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is selling the ads to fund their project to launch a student-designed small

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  TBP Dinner Sex@MIT is the most-watched video on CNN.com! (but it's not pornography!)

  

  a Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honors Society) dinner (courtesy of Sam '07, a nationally honored engineer) to hear a musicologist (rastrologist?) deliver a speech on economics. And in other news, Mollie '06

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... MIT alum Matt DuPlessie. Each year Matt gives back a little to MIT by ... funds that way. This blog entry is a humble request for you to check out

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  attempt to make a robot that imitates humanlike walking as much as possible, the researchers in the Seung Lab designed a robot that learns how to ... are equipped with muscles that they need to walk, all they need is a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Last year, I piloted an effort to capture CPW through the eyes of a prefrosh, and this ... will be a great opportunity to share your CPW experiences as well as

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  infection rendering my voiceless and without a desire to eat. So I think my ... We will first begin with a cartoon from one of my favorite webpages: And it wouldn't be Valentine's Day without: r = a(1 - cos(theta)) Plot

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  So summertime brings me to a crossroads in life, my fraternity's chef gets a summer vacation, I'm morally opposed to eating Top Ramen or hot ... than those flavor packets. What is a bachelor (laughs) to do? One

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Room Tour 2017 edition

  

  2021s, can't wait to meet y'all this week! To give you guys a sneak peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film and edit videos. Here's my first shot at it, and a room tour to show for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  sadness - because we were not able to offer a spot to SO MANY wonderful people. This seems to be the case every year. You'd think I'd get used to ... letters and packages to be mailed. I'll keep you posted. Decisions will

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  ). CPW is a chance for you to meet people in your grade and go to once-in-a ... living group; you'll miss a lot. If America's supposed to be a melting pot ... . I still know and talk to a number of people I met during CPW, whom I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... Thanksgiving, making it impossible to attend all of them), I'll go into a couple ... would be coming to campus to give a lecture: Yo, Lil B is coming to MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  evenings. BoA's "My Name" is down to #10 this week. The #8 video, "Windy" by ... them, DrinkableYogurt). I need to give a shout out to two of my ... to a 500-word limit." Kevin says in his blog that 650 words is okay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if my country has a different academic calendar?

  hemisphere. Students from these countries may apply to MIT before completing high school or wait until they graduate. We suggest students apply to university in their home country and begin studies while they wait to learn their
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  Now that CPW is behind us, I am beginning to return to my life as a ... to fire up the Yamaha YHT-160 (5.1 channel A/V Home Theater receiver ... might be to brand that person as a racist. Yet PC norms might keep you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... is that they create a comfortable space to ask questions, which has ... Interphase together. It’s really comforting to have a familiar face, especially

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I ... . I think the trailer's actually a little encouraging... it ... , otherwise it'd be pretty much impossible to adapt to film. Stylistically, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  Here’s to a basically mid-semester check-in to what I spend my time ... half in now, it’s safe to say that I will have learned a lot by the end ... really feeling like I have a grasp on the material to feeling like the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to ... organized a MLTalk with the DCI developers and Media Lab director Joi Ito to ... , the DCI announced a $900,000 Bitcoin Developer Fund to to cover salaries

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016