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• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  Can you believe... it’s already the middle of August ??? ...and we’re all getting ready to go back to school… Returning students are probably ... classroom … etc. and 2) Open up! …I can think of a handful of situations where

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  summer! You can resist. You have many more options of things to do with ... time. You can investigate an interest, develop a new skill, or learn ... and on your own for a few weeks. It’s a good thing to know that you can

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  level of detail that exceeds what satellites can provide. Working with ... said. "This is one area where we're able to make an impact." You can

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  CPW is over. The May 3 reply date is quickly approaching. What to do? How can you make the best decision? If you've made up your mind for ... questions are still on your mind? What can Mollie (or other MIT folks) help

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  can go ahead and say you're kilo-excited. Exam tomorrow that you haven ... , you can apply it to the magnitude of abstraction you take in a subject

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  I can't believe winter break is over. My time spent on vacation flew by ridiculously fast, and now, I find myself back on campus, wondering ... that I can set my own hours, which allows me to work around EMT. Even

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  , there's only so much you can gather from small black letters pasted ... time to visit. And if you really can't make it, no worries. I lived

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  Rhinoscript, which you can use to program pretty much anything in Rhino 3D, but ... ://web.mit.edu/bloggers/www/cristenc10/ ~~~ The map linked above (if you can't see it, you probably need

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  can admit. For now, we are waiting to see how many of the 1597 admitted ... reconvene and discuss the waitlist. You can see a lot of answers about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  Another blogget for you all. MIT Men's Heavyweight Crew is a finalist for "Crew of the Week" and you can all help our crew team be recognized ... . With all the recent varsity team stuff, it can't hurt to show our teams a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  both undergrad and grad like 4.440. I learn Rhinoscript so I can code ... can sometimes feel awkward. And everything ever is due Thursday mornings

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  . PhD Comics Can't believe I originally forgot this gem! Called to my ... friend Ternus '10 comments, "Insidiously distracting things you can do

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  't really talked to for a year can be immensely satisfying. At MIT, we have ... interview with Eric Lander last year. The worst they can do is say no, and ... that. Trying to develop your own personal website can be a great

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  semester transcript. Let me say that again. YOU CAN NOT GET AN F ON YOUR FIRST SEMESTER TRANSCRIPT The other side to that is that you can't get an A on your first semester transcript. YOU CAN NOT GET AN A ON YOUR

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  with 100 dimples hemispherically embedded with radius 3mm, I can help you out. (note: turns out that's impossible, you can't fit 100 dimples with ... -tesselating backgrounds should stay non-tesselating. I don't know if you can read that tiny

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  on out, and therefore I can say, Hello! I'm Kim. Well, I guess I ... you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  , outside my window I can see the sun breaking through the clouds over the Charles River. And I can't help but think that it's a beautiful day to bid

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping ... understand how these little lizards can defy gravity. It turns out that gecko ... hundreds of projections shaped like spatulas. Each of these tips can attach

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  case you haven't seen the trailer or the commercials, you can watch it ... your country (see release dates), you can still participate! Simply rent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  Hi Everyone! It's been quite a while since I last blogged. MIT can be ... grade hasn't posted to WebSIS yet, but I'm pretty sure it's an A. I can ... a particle at a given time. However, you can predict the probability

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008