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  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now ... woodturners — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2023 are now ... chess — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2022 are now ... by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT's mission to use science, technology, and the useful

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  two words of the language native to the country you'll be traveling to ... number of mistakes that were pointed out to me...) I've also been spending a lot of time on this site, cramming various scraps of information in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  It's that time of the year again -- MIT's Undergraduate Research ... research going on at MIT and around the world. We publish four types of research: 1. News: Summaries of breakthroughs at MIT and beyond. -Some MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  part of MIT folklore, hacks can tell much about MIT's culture and ... of the interdisciplinary nature of MIT. In 2005 MIT Professor Emeritus Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  Laura asked: "where can you get inexpensive, used textbooks? one of ... ! That's CRAZY! If you're going to be taking the General Institute ... 'll definitely hear of online book exchanges (MIT411.com used to be one of them

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  ? Check. Dating? Check. A wedding engagement? Check. A little bit of class ... were made at the Cambridge headquarters of NECCO (the New England Confectionery Company), right next to MIT's Random Hall dormitory? Ah, many of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  Since its start (circa 1984) MISTI has sent over 350 MIT School of ... their skills abroad. Dima Ayyash Class of 2012 MIT-Germany Program ... explore a new area of interest within the fields of planning and

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  This entry brings to a close one of the longest periods of blog ... ? Domestic selection (final stages). It's been a long season of Regular Action, but we are finally beginning to see the Class of 2010 truly take shape

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March

  

  On the ides of March, I attended the awards ceremony of the Intel ... , it made me feel like I was at the Oscars of high school science. And ... think a big part of that is it's not really in the nature of the science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  .671 (Mechanical Engineering Institute Lab Class) experiment, but I had to share with you the following, which was the first page of the background reading ... group of people in a pub in London, and when they find out you are a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  yet to be indoctrinated into the Institute's habit of numbering ... I have always loved writing. I have always enjoyed the freedom of ... narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  green technologies. A lot of my colleagues from that era are still doing ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] !!![/caption] Hank is a man of many passions: science ... ’ve been a fan of Hank (and his brother John) for basically my entire

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Media Lab?

  disruptive new technologies.
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I ... in the past year. But then, I sometimes see the flip side of that ... the weight of "not good enough." I've said this time and time again and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  intersection of art and technology. CPW is something we, as a club, were really ... Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our freshman spring), when a group of upperclassmen got funding from the Council

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  's seal, the world forms the background of the traditional Institute seal ... Both my father (MCP, '87) and I spent some time here at the Institute ... idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  of previous years, I really got a sense of what technology trends were ... On Jan 3rd, Forbes published their annual list of the 30 Under 30 of 2017. For six years now, Forbes has put out lists of the top 30

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media, cofounder of Global Voices and MediaCloud, and board member for Ushahidi and ... of diversifying your sources of media:     Ethan and I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015