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• Blog / Admissions

  If You Wish To Receive Your Decision Online… ...please read this entry!

  

  to check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a ... . If you do not have a MyMIT account and you wish to receive your ... Selection committee has begun! We are pleased to announce that we

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 1, 2006
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if I don’t have a school counselor?

  Many international applicants don't have a school counselor. The school counselor letter is not a required part of the MIT application; it's only for those who have a school counselor. A principal, headmaster, or
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  MIT before choosing a major. In order to provide some real, concrete ... my "friends" (names removed to protect the innocent). Here are a few ... .00: Introduction to Psychology (HASS, with Prof. Jeremy Wolfe) 22.A06: Nuclear

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  musical gears.     Joey shifted from hardcore genre to a super catchy pop/rock genre and now writes and records a few songs each month. In addition to ... usually gets a sneak preview before Joey posts his songs to Youtube for the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  with 5 significant figures, and the professor did not manage to include a ... approaches infinity. Someday, I plan to teach a literature class that has a ... , provided the counterpoint to a dry, overbaked textbook with too many pictures

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you ... follow what appears to be a consensus of bloggers before me and adhere to ... sentences? A: I don’t know. I’ll probably just take great care to avoid that

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am ... corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math ... this year will be published on Tuesday. To make this a little fun, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  developing countries. We hope to bring the tests to chlorinators set up by a ... to do so much. I feel ridiculous and strange sitting in a hotel room ... listened to salsa drifting over from a neighboring restaurant and watched

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  over to Baker House to hear the wonderful sounds a piano can make on a ... next to the shattered fragments. We also took a few mementos. (For these ... comfortable performing in front of a group [kind of to be expected] but more

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  UROPs in the lab to meet with Professor Langer for a pizza dinner! I ... Last week, I blogged a little about how MIT's student body really ... MIT. At the same time, though, I have come to realize that MIT's faculty

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  free time to participate in competitions, take a class in something you ... being a very walkable city, and it’s even more runable! It’s no sweat to ... southern view from the Baker roof (click to see a bigger version): And here

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  Use sand to seal the edges and let it carbonize for a while. Fast forward to the next step: Put the carbonized material in a plastic bag ... (in sunny weather, it takes a couple of days) and then they're ready to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to ... want to camp Saturday night, a van may be able to return to MIT by 7 PM ... that they are welcome. It is a great opportunity to meet new people and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  Before we get into it, I need to address a question I've heard a few ... opportunities that await you. I need you to think a little more about the "no ... , your UROP. MIT tells you that you have a chance to show off these groups

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  13 inches in diameter, was reportedly forced to climb stairs built at a ... actuators to short out. A second robot, a biped from MIT's Leg Laboratory, was ... was locked in a room and forced to calculate pi to the 1083 decimal

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  substantial entries to come this week): First, I saw a link on a military blog (Naval Open Source Intelligence) to a relevant MIT OpenCourseWare course, 21A.217: Anthropology of War and Peace, taught by Prof. Hugh Gusterson

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  Thanks to Kiersten for being my 4000th comment! Also, thanks to Jeff who, in the 3999th comment, provided a link to this interview with MIT ... prominent scholar in the country devoted to examining pastimes often deemed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short ... twelve different authority figures telling us not to kill the kids and a ... absolutely riddled with issues. See, this gift was a $40 gift card to Virgin

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  forces you to study and furthermore provides you with a wide range of study ... are! Courses are useful to some; I just like independence a little too ... a few details; to supplement the Examkrackers materials, I used

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011