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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  is to provide a late-night, work-free food experience to desperate ... 10 minutes ago I actually heard myself say "I really need to eat and I also really need to do 2.005 but I only have time to do one, which

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  With the Regular Action deadline just days away, I want to wish all the best to the regular action applicants in finishing up their application materials. Try to get it done soon so you can have a rockin' New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is fixed! The deadline for EA has been extended to November 5 due to the recent MyMIT…

  

  The site is back online and peace has been restored to my world ... returned to normal. Maybe I'll actually have some time to blog next week... As you may have noticed, the deadline for EA has been extended to

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2004
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I defer my enrollment?

  If you're admitted to MIT, you may defer enrollment for one or two years. After confirming your intent to enroll in MIT's first-year class, you will be asked to submit a formal request for deferment to the Dean
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can't wait to ... , and it is. As a matter of philosophy, we have typically preferred to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place ... typically preferred to defer, rather than deny, a majority of our early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  Well now, this is a good way to start a blog entry. Megan '08, nine people I don't really know and I went down to Carson Beach today and then this happened. Well, it was a little cold, for the first time in a few

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  that I could never be a good Jew in the case I decided to spontaneously ... have anything to do with Thanksgiving? Well, okay, a few things you ... half of these have to be Kosher. The result is a weekend extravaganza of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  think it would suck to be a penguin... I'm not so much a fan of the -80 ... ! The museum, besides being a great place to immerse oneself in biology ... -track minds), had two exhibits to thrill the animal geek in me: a new baby

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Another insane (in a good way) day! Got to MIT early; checked in with my fellow admissions peeps. Not bound to the Reg Desk today, I made the ... . Went back to my office for the first time in 2 days; checked email. Akash

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool modification to my engine by making it a generator, but I didn't have enough time ... engines: To see a video of my engine running, click here! I didn't get it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  website.   Q2) What is a Maker Portfolio? A2) We want to see how you ... information? I have SO MUCH I want to share with you! A4) I am excited that you ... pitch" about your Maker projects. You have a short amount of time to

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If ... of shit I was going to eat, sometimes served on a high-speed conveyor ... 've contemplated several times about running off to a cabin to become a writer (which

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  responsibility to an app called Todoist. A pen and paper could achieve the same functionality as this fancy to-do list, but does a pen and paper have a dark theme ... 's been a "pset, sleep, blog –– pick two" kind of time, so instead of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit ... owned by incomprehensible orgo mechanisms and whether EMS produces a G to A mutation or a C to A mutation, I'll let someone else tell the story

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  setup, another has a beam that is wired up to record its response to an ... , each team of two people was given a setup and allowed to come up with ... this. We decided to measure the impulse of a head when it was snapped up

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  response which we then evaluate, akin to the soft rubber hammer which a ... paper applications, we used to just include a blank piece of paper and ask ... questions which are going to a) elicit the most informative, enlightening

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  telling people that I'm a blogger. (Which I then question due to my recent ... rewarding summers of my life, and a lot of it was thanks to MIT. I spent the ... to a group of awesome middle schoolers and officially discovered the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper ... joking around with the case. It takes more than two months to put a show ... individuals—-to give life to words on a page. This is my experience from

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  project, he had the opportunity to spend a couple of weeks in a Japanese ... at MIT's Center for Materials Science have completed constructing a ... an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005