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• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  information securely with your future classmates, and to get emails and ... Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book your plane ... President's Welcome & Faculty Keynote Lecture to more unique events like the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  has unlimited cheese samples, but Ben & Jerry's is easier to get to ... Here are some ideas from my limited experience to help you meet ... to work" says Sam '07 Club Passim -- live music Grendel's Den -- the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  must pay $1.10 a gallon to get rid of this oil, which is used to deep ... On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute ... , with accumulations of 5 to 8 inches of snow expected. Meanwhile crude oil

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go ... something to that effect. Some students in the lab have fallen asleep at ... all-nighters or close to it. I remember what that sort of thing was like

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  I am delighted to join the impressive cadre of admissions office ... consider applying to or attending the Institute. Since this is my initial post, I'd like to briefly introduce myself, and then talk about how to

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all ... -line university (....hello, why would you send that to an at mit dot edu email ... /shows/fundraisers, as well as all kinds of junk from fellow students who want to share

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is watching TV; however, when I do have time (*cough* IAP *cough*) I manage to ... I'm sure this isn't the best way to spend my time, I somehow can

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lie la lying down Sometimes there are perks to attending a school with a notorious reputation for producing stressed…

  

  to get these. All I have to do is live in my dorm. I can handle that. I ... I've got an exam in twenty minutes, but I wouldn't be able to ... ] From: Dan Kirsch To: [Burton Conner Discussion] Subject: Massages tonight

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

  BoA & Restricting

  

  evenings. BoA's "My Name" is down to #10 this week. The #8 video, "Windy" by ... them, DrinkableYogurt). I need to give a shout out to two of my ... getting mixed messages about this. We say in the application, "Please keep

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Uncategorized

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  but couldn’t get myself to decide what that was; i promised myself i ... fruit, beckoning for me to reach out and grab them. it seems every ... make myself busier. when i have a bad day, i buy myself a coffee to make

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  that mimicked humans to get closer to us. Whatever the case, this topic ... feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction/repulsion, uncanny valley refers to the sharp dip. There are several theories about why

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  date; it can be helpful to add them to a calendar app or spreadsheet. Don’t wait until the last minute to submit. Life loves going wrong when ... that. Send your scores now. Please don’t get stuck paying $30+ for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  seldom has enough free space for me to actually get work done.  [caption ... ~[/caption] here’s what’s on my desk, from left-to-right, top-to-bottom: my friend ... agent, and I actually got to see her at Boston Book Festival last month

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  mathematical models and quantitative data, and i'm looking forward to getting ... theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave ... class in space systems engineering) have led to real systems for

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

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  the Maseeh Hall announcement screen: “MIT gets hard. I’ll get to fixing ... soon the path to solution worked, getting the right answer was definitely ... We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  been a humbling experience. I am full of gratitude to you, our class of ... encouraged me to try again. I have been delighted by your nerdiness and amazed ... about this, this quote from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince came to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our ... house, you have to send an e-mail letting everyone know, to give residents

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  folks won't begin blogging right away, as we have to get them to ... , and wants to learn to climb things. She sometimes eats three breakfasts ... to write fanfiction about me and m_quinn, but we hired him anyway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to ... 's as good a measure as any of geekiness, at least with respect to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  to the newest data from this past year's admissions cycle. We always try to provide as much data as we can to make our process as transparent as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011