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• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  /Docufide to submit letters of evaluation and transcripts, your school can send ... fault of your own, your school forms (e.g. teacher recommendations ... ; *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  . First of all, IAP is MIT's Independent Activities Period, where MIT students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from working at an awesome company to making teapots to throwing things off of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life ... went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our finals. One of the nice thing about Tosci's is that they have some pretty

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  terms with my limits in the past 2.5 years of school. One thing I want to ... high school demanded a lot of memorization, and the problem-solving often ... calculus in middle school—but Ellenberg points out that this type of thinking

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  school, we were only allowed to send one applicant to each of the programs. My high school puts out a newsletter to the parents with all kinds of ... a great success rate this year: Jane Doe: accepted at the School of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a fusion reactor. Then, of course, you build the perfect fusion reactor and ... good at theoretical plasma physics you have to know a lot of things that

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  enough ago that few of you were reading my blog. A little bit of context ... of Peeto '01 and his lovely fiancee Meaghan. He's one of our zanier alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  Last night, after a day of reading the first batch of regular action ... battling traffic caused by the likes of Barack Obama and Ron Paul, I arrived ... hundreds of invited guests include sponsors, mentors, and coaches. Among the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the ... market today that are designed especially for kids. These let kids do neat

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for ... when we, for the first time in all of high school, really allowed ... experience, we realized how potentially toxic the idea of a dream school can be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  Some of you may recall Shuli's whiteboard post, and upon this whiteboard were a number of (SFW) out of context quotes. Well, as it happens, most living communities have some version of this exact whiteboard

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  awareness on campus. A lot of campus politics seem to have more student-driven input than at MIT (though there has been a history of MIT students ... of overpriced food around Kendall and Central due to the proximity of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  day for the past week, probably because of the abundance of natural ... -seasoned piece of avocado toast with one. 9:32 AM I start work. My UROP is data ... -the-fuck-out-of-my-house-and-find-a-UROP frenzy. I really like the work

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  probably one of the happiest people on the face of the earth. Unfortunately ... reactions weren't so positive. A lot of people told me to my face, "Bryan, you ... . I'd worked very hard my entire school career, taken the tests, done

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answering Your Questions: EA Deadline Week How can we be helpful?

  

  of the deadline. Your school/teachers may submit their materials ... submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on November 1. There is some amount of grace ... teachers and schools.  Your recommendations do not need to be in our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  my teammates this morning mentioned that we only have 9 days of school ... past couple of weeks. As we head into the last couple weeks of the ... /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  have interest in this school, you are in this group of “coolest people ... lines of “Woahhhhh this school would be awesome for (some person that is ... of the core aspects that caused me to work hard in high school. I would

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  course of each week would make an amazing sinusoidal graph." She said, "You ... [/annotation]-- more content to come soon!! As background, 6.009 is "Fundamentals of ... class in the sequence, 6.0001, because I did a bit of coding in middle

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  Simmons because of its striking design and gravity-defying overhangs ... , no, I am not one of those people. Not just because I’m busy and ... a few seconds in my brain), I deduced the entire plot of the film

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  On this day celebrating eagles, barbeque, and the adoption of the Declaration of Independence (not the signing; get your facts straight, kids), the City of Boston is shrouded in fog and a light sprinkle of rain. This

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014