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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mattress Dominoes! One of many reasons why my summer is better than yours.

  

  Northwestern University, an intensive three-week academic program for gifted ... first session, and this time around I'm working with AP Physics. Physics is awesome and all, but that's not what I'm here for right now. Neither

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 24, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  What is the mail address/fax number?

  Email: [email protected] Fax: 617.687.9184 Mailing address: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office of Undergraduate Admissions 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E38-200 Cambridge, MA 02139
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  to somewhere wild and exotic (give recommendations!) so I'm learning how to cook. Now I must say I'm to a degree spoiled, both my mom and ... dogs as a college student, and I just am a fan of more spice in my life

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  admission to MIT, and we have offered early admission to 664. These students ... ; You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log ... England to New Zealand and many places in between. We can't wait to welcome

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

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  dream college. institution soulmates or whatever xx and i had a group of ... who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... build a life after." I said sure, and she wrote this post. I had planned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  is not offered solely in English, allowing me to sign up for inglés and ... crazy or stupid or maybe even a little bit of both and i b e g g e d him ... ’t know, Duolingo is the result of some talented programmers and language

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Sweet Deal An offer I will not refuse.

  

  person. If you plan on taking this offer, you MUST email 2007council and ... I just got this email, and I'm excited. Any recommendations on who ... and holds an MD as well as a PhD. He studies the economics behind

  • by Bryan
  • February 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  waving our hands about? The fact is, you'd think swing states like Ohio and ... electoral votes and population normalized to Wyoming. [1]   STATE ... First some backstory. It's 2008, a leap year and a presidential

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  -three percent and the temperature was seventeen degrees Celsius. One had left three dark brown hairs on the pillow and two on the bed; the other had ... dew had dried on the grass and the daybreak cold was over. The twins had

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  wanted to accomplish while at MIT. Some were silly, and some were very ... numbers, I took CJ's Sporcle quiz! And I...didn't do too hot. I totally ... a few PE classes offered in person this fall, which I was NOT aware of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  Institute of Harvard and MIT, he's got a hand in most of the things that are ... Robot, and her path to success. MIT student hacks his dorm room door lock ... design, a computer-less setup that involves a microcontroller, a motor, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  ,000 people a year in the United States and 250-500,000 people worldwide die ... endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a pandemic from June 2009 to August 2010; the CDC estimates that between 43 and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  TW: Detailed Descriptions of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault, Brief Mentions of Pedophilia and Disordered Eating   This ... grappling with the same struggles over and over again, each iteration

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT, and we have offered early admission to 656. These students hail ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to ... different things — construction and cross-stitch, algorithms and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... III (Waves and Oscillations) Professor van Oudennarden (pronounced “ow ... to some speakers, and turned up the volume (I covered my ears) until it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  really left this place. I just lurk and cruft and linger in the tunnels ... , now I work here running this thing, and my office is off main campus so ... . shameless self-promotion (why else) and 2. if you're seeing this, it means

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  of the capstone options for the aeroastro degree. in true mens-et-manus spirit, students design, prototype, and test an actual flight vehicle for an external contractor. past years of 16.82 and 16.83 (the analogous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... ordered. Three hours later, I tripped over my own shoes and fell up a flight ... -inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  Laura Stonehill, an MIT senior majoring in Civil and Environmental ... the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to ... bridges, the Ponte Celestia and the Portanuova, for a military area of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  headshots, more interviews, and then Chris had a job! After the job offer we ... was. Let's say I went to John Q. Public University and was a Comp ... , and looking back at it I realize that that entry sounded a lot like a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009