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  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  : How walkable the city is. And how, once you've been here a while, every ... yourself is going to lead to the right outcome for you. This is true in ... think change is great! (I do plan to stay in my current house, job, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day = Mail Day? Too Early To Know No official mail date yet.

  

  Hi everyone, There have been a lot of comments in the blogs that we ... we don't yet have a mail date set for this year. Just wanted to clarify - it will indeed be in mid-March, but Mail Day depends on a variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  , so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a director would be screening a really interesting documentary over in Building ... film, Monkey Dance, is a documentary about the lives of three Cambodian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  text very well or at all, that's okay! What I'll do in this section is ... , manner of articulation, and their voicing. A consonant is voiced if the vocal cords vibrate when producing it. A consonant is unvoiced if the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  person who would come as we were finishing. In the quiet of the building ... down to the great exercise that is [annotation note="which involves a lot ... a pre-lifting state. But, I’m doing it. Again. My first day back, in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  championship, which is three games over the span of a week. In the NEWMAC ... and compete for a spot in the [annotation note="National Collegiate ... in the U.S."]NCAA[/annotation] tournament.  The regular season was a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and ... many pictures (2 of which I've included here): (Rishi '14 is hitting a ... school was just that (1) everyone was a genius, and (2) no one did anything

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  just in time for a crazy week in the office. Now, I'm off on group travel ... Mid-Atlantic, and the Carolinas here) We started in Miami with a nicely ... my years in admissions. One young woman asked a question about how our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I apply as a permanent resident?

  there is a change in your citizen status during the application process ... citizenship status. In the MIT first-year admissions process, you are considered a U.S. citizen if you currently hold a United States permanent
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How awesome is MIT Physics?

  The MIT Physics Department is one of the best places in the world for research and education in physics. Fourteen of their alumni and eight of their faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  place is taking a new kind of energy. How is it time already?  In Catcher ... off, my friends and I were squished together in the front of a U-Haul truck headed towards a sketchy storage facility somewhere in the middle of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• 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…

  

  she is working in a cognitive science lab. She came to MIT to do ... Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence ... , the researchers in the Seung Lab designed a robot that learns how to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  me. every day is a grind, and keeping up with academics is about the ... for 20 minutes and sit down for six hours" kind of deal. in terms of a ... childhood anime, Inuyasha, is currently airing. when i heard about it back in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some a capella A concert by the MIT Chorallaries (7 pictures)

  

  It's Saturday night at MIT, and I'm taking a break from reading in my ... have joined me to see MIT's oldest co-ed a capella group (with a nerdy/musical pun name only rivaled by the MIT Logarhythms). [This is my second live

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in Texas and Arizona Learn about three great schools at once in the American Southwest.

  

  Beginning a week from Saturday, MIT will be going on the road with Brown & Yale Universities for meetings in Texas and Arizona. Details can be found here: brownmityale.org These meetings will be a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  ballgown is dangling from a ceiling pipe. It doesn't fit in my wardrobe; if I ... sent me some posters in the mail recently. One is of Cassiopeia, a ... the Whirlpool Galaxy, and a third one is of the sky when viewed in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  . Especially after taking D-Lab development (which is a class in course 11) and ... Course 11 is a small major with a lot of breadth. It is cross ... . Sophomore spring, after taking a couple classes in the urban studies and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  Today is mail day. I'll save my emotional post on this topic for a ... , and lightning. I haven't seen a storm like this is ages - it's like the ... in the mail. I'm not sure of the exact number of admits, but it is very

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  company? A runner's choice of running shoes is a very careful and ... on a Likert scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is least awesome and 5 is most ... enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update The title says it all.

  

  Well, Mystery Hunt is in full swing, and let me tell you, it is quite the adventure. I just took a quick trip back to my room so I could grab ... week. The thrill of solving a puzzle is just awesome. Obviously, I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 13, 2006