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• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  The May 1 reply deadline has come and gone, and we know many of you ... from our wait list this year, and, if so, room for how many. Each year, our plan and hope is  to admit students from the wait list. This year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  a little since I tend to talk about glass-blowing and truffle-making and there's so much more happening that I wish I could participate in ... office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  . The class is taught by Tabata Sensei, an 8th degree black belt and ... 's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) is in ... every morning and sort of played intramural (IM) dodgeball with my floor

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  up to offer an overnight retreat involving students, staff and faculty ... 've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to ... , because it could be the difference between making people upset and making

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  this job, do it regularly, and do it well. Biography City, State ... upperclassmen spots that are open for the fall, and if you feel you can make a ... decade, both within and without our office, from an heritage monoculture of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  first quantity that came to mind was distance and the easiest unit of ... references and important concepts in my life, I found the units that defined my ... the length of a FIRST Robotics' Build Season, to the state of political

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged ... handle him or not. A worldly man, he has been everywhere and is from ... and watching kung fu." Points if you can guess the movie allusion

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  colleges but by reference-letter shopping instead and using more flattering ... students living abroad who will receive packages from MIT and posted the method to this blog (since deleted) and other sites. Others have posted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  York, occasionally rewatching my favorite episodes of Parks and ... possessions and drove west. I'll be spending the next few months living with a ... will continue living in my basement, in boxes I labelled and taped shut

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  Truffle-Making, and am currently missing the OrigaMIT Paper Folding) I've just returned from the records office downstairs, and boy do they have a ... processing that mail as quickly and efficiently as they can, but be patient

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  Dasgupta, Assistant Professor of genetics at Boston University; and Becky ... University. The discussion was insightful, reflective, blunt, and optimistic ... Square Theater, ticket in one hand and notebook in the other, I wasn

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  We haven’t been blogging as much as we’d like to. Senior fall and ... September - November, and then grad school applications from November - now ...   Retaking the GRE ten days ago (and doing a little better than the first time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  are airports, and the edges are flights between them. i made a vague ... trackpad). i like to have chrome and the terminal on one split screen, and ... four chinese characters long and often have really interesting meanings

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the ... together and make decisions for each case. Finally, we'll put the decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  diverge at 30 degree angles) and we're working our way to sketching more ... about physical principles and how other people have applied them. A ... derived, do a couple sample problems, maybe see a real life application, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of robotics programs does MIT offer?

  Interactive Robots We even offer free online course materials for students
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  meet, and infinite resources to discover. Everything seemed possible and ... , my friend and I crossed the Harvard Bridge for the first time. We had expected to hear the city buzz and face giant skyscrapers, but instead

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  i've been drafting and drafting this blog post over and over again in ... old, i live in random hall, and i. am. exhausted. these past two weeks at mit have definitely been very fulfilling and gratifying, yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  sharing and appreciating passions, regardless of major and background. The Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the ... Institute in this post, and will return to the topic in more detail soon. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  Whitehead Institute, Mike works under the auspices of Prof. Harvey Lodish and ... Speaking from experience, having a UROP is a big time and emotional investment. On average, UROPers spend eight hours in the lab per week and a lot

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006