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• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  achievements. I'm new to the position, but the role it plays in our office is ... or less, except instead of going to the NFL Combine, I'm going to FIRST ... ? Not much, honestly. I'd been doing aspects of this job on an ad hoc

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  feast we've ever imagined could be waiting inside? I can believe that. We ... gathered from near and far in the courtyard of East Campus, where Tetazoans ... by Molly D. '15)   Fun was had by all. I really like living in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  where I am today.) In this morning's edition of The Tech, the student ... See, I am here! Sorry for the gap in my posting. My CI-M (TLA!! Sam ... CI classes in your major: CI-Ms. I invite you to join me on this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the ... busy/lazy. Despite that, I played a lot of tennis and it was my basically ... have to study. But now, hopefully, I'll resume exercising in MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  in the special sauce that makes MIT such a mecca of talent, but it’s clear that he can’t get enough of its taste. He arrived at ... surgeon. In his senior year of college, he decided to take the MD-PhD route

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  exchange that I had a lot of fun participating in. I don't remember where I ... of coasters collected from my time in Munich. We start at the top ... years in the making. The final "interesting" wall has a group of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  sit at a computer for hours writing out an entire post in one sitting. I ... I was sitting in the Media Lab when I saw in the news that Fireflies ... .   Of course, immediately aftewards I got caught up with other work

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  I see that there's been a bit of discussion in the comments about the ... set of scores now; we won't need them until we go into the Early Action selection committee. We will receive November scores in time, so don't worry

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  and I had in New York last weekend, but I'm not going to write it until tomorrow. And you don't get to read it unless you vote. Now, I did my part by ... 's Lohengrin. Thanks to Zach for that random fact at the suggestion of a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  group of people in a pub in London, and when they find out you are a ... , so they chose one of the motors at random and installed it in their ... program for promoting women pursuing careers in engineering. Maybe I

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

  Term time again

  

  Institute Requirements in a blender and added basic neuroscience - I have to ... 're Course 6. We dabble in psychophysics, biophysics, optics, the biology of ... of cool optical illusions. I get to remember how to do convolutions, a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  there so much they moved in early to hang out with you guys!  They can tell you stories of what living in McCormick is really like because it ... have some classic McCormick events that we just can’t get rid of because

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  hug, sometimes to tool in the comfort of silent company. I spent many ... 's Out There in the Real World, and also a better sense of What I Don ... substitute for the sensation of interior space, but I grabbed a few anyway

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  EA, RA, and Transfer Updates Including the status of MyMIT tracking and the latest for those impacted by Sandy.

  

  patient while we go through thousands of applications! I hope this is ... should look equally good on a desktop, laptop, tablet, iPad, Kindle, mobile phone, iPhone, whatever.  What do you think?  Let us know how it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  aspects of their academic and student life. The survey is essential in ... [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill (which is rare) so i sat down and filled out this incredibly long survey

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  ; tool = working. "I'm gonna be tooling in Hayden tonight."  2. n ... .” 4. v working in a urop. “This summer I’m uroping in an EAPS lab ... certain if I have ever heard it referred to in words. People say ".009" or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  that uses it. One of the most interesting companies I've seen in this ... they accepted some walk-ins on the day of. I didn't have a team but I ... hackers in one gymnasium. Incredible. I ran into so many of my friends who

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Only You Have The Power Only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give…

  

  a good option. Because in life, every hand can be a winner if you play ... I'm still reeling a bit from the last thread, I must admit. Let me ... teachers, and don't give it to MIT. Those people can all make decisions that

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  this time. In theory, pretty simple. In theory.[/caption] As you can ... " align="alignright" width="300"] Concept art of a glassblowing gremlin ... teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  So my mom and I are pretty tight. I do call her every day courtesy of ... share with you today's email. It is very reminiscient of the letters I would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005