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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from ... . Schuh, an associate professor of metallurgy in the department of materials ... undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  settling in for an hour long T ride DO NOT eat a McGriddle right before, the ... large part of our job is knowing all the ins and outs of admissions so ... that says “Mark as Junk” that ends up being used in these circumstances

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  Marilee Jones was featured in an online chat on TIME.com, following up on ... joined the admissions staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979, Marilee Jones has been a uniquely moral voice in the college

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  community. In fact, the first sorority ever founded at MIT was the historically black organization, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (AKA) in 1977. The second sorority ever founded at the Institute in 1980 was the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to ... well in this class. MIT doesn't have a separate Data Structures course ... -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  finals in the past two days (6.0001, 20.110, and 5.13) and the looming ... fascinating externships, or participate in an assortment of competitions. Last ... yourself in some way. And while this is surely an admirable outlook on life

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  's website to see if I could afford one.  The math never worked :( In late ... I saw my first Tesla in July, 2009. I knew what Teslas were but it ... awed by its 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and it being all-electric. 2 years later

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  explanation is in the next section. If you ARE familiar with it, skip ahead ... , etc. In my last blog post, I said that I would write up an explanation ... = Green In other words, blue is the absence of yellow, red is the absence

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  website, and email him expressing interest in the class. Step 4: Find the ... form. Step 10: Give in said form to the registration office in Mass ... Art. And right before we were done talking, Danny asked, "Just wondering, in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Time to Complete the MIT Midyear Report Applicants need to fill out the form on MyMIT by February 15th.

  

  also an option in the Report for students whose schools do not provide ... school. Finally, my colleagues in the Financial Aid Office are happy to ... applying for financial aid on the Student Financial Services website.  The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  MovableType publishing platform. Instead of being a website like blogger or ... , like MITAdmissions. After logging in using my super-secret password, we ... . Any size differences, colors, or pictures you see are all hard coded in

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  in bits all around the website. I do feel funny clarifying this, but if ... scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We ... hard as we made it out to be in our heads—we just patiently followed the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  few websites with glossy photos deliver me dead plants in a box through ... At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting ... housemate Kevin brought home a Meyer lemon and put it in our sunny living room

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  same taste in music: classic rock, blues, and jazz, and that's pretty ... arts school in Austin, Texas. As summer break ended and we all parted ... heart of live blues music in the United States. You run into all sorts of

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  -graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and ... to travel with an MIT airplane-scientist-in-training... I'm kind of ... burritos (I'm pretty sure they must have crack in them... so good. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  returns come in. I had many election-watching options to choose from ... in Copley Square, and even a party at my own house. Ultimately, though, I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  I spent this morning sitting in 1369 Coffee on Mass Ave writing new ... Instagrammed my food.   (In my defense, the latte art deserved ... further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  similar lifestyles, so we grew close pretty quickly. We chill in Next House ... bottles in the closet have two small potted plants called Sandwich and Vincent Van Growgh, and then eat a sandwich in front of Sandwich to instill

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  ) website here: Designing a First Year at MIT First year MIT students are ... advising, a non-credit option in which advisees simply meet with their ... in personal projects. We (Ellie, Teresa, and Gloria) are or were all

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  in the process of forming, as well. On November 19, 1884, The Tech reported the first “official” musical space on the MIT campus (then located in ... have secured a room in the Institute for holding their rehearsals this

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025