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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2005, and in 2006 he received the ... come to MIT? A. I chose to come to MIT twice - in 1983 as a student, and ... ), there will be two prominent faculty keynote speakers. To highlight their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim ... before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. 6,820 students applied for early ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Search Continues On the internship search and deciding what I want to do with my life.

  

  interview at 3.45 PM. Now do keep in mind that I went to sleep at about 4 am ... Office. In addition to the Career Office, there's also UPOP, a program for ... 'll describe to you my morning. I woke up this morning at 8.50 AM to a phone

  • by Bryan
  • November 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to ... the French language across the channel in 1066. To give you more ... can guarantee that it would look like complete gibberish to you. In the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  trafficked, but wouldn't it make more sense to have the chainsaw in building 46 ... am happy to announce that, in case of zombie invasion, we will have a ... , doesn't see the zombies as a threat, forcing hackers to help protect the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Two important reminders

  

  for U.S. students to sign up. Remember that we require, in addition to ... cost, I recommend taking three SAT IIs in June. I encourage you to ... fast approaching. Today, Friday, April 29, is the regular deadline to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  conspiring, which means that I need to put that to an end. In the next little ... 6.001 seems to be unique in just how it manages to pull it off ... whether or not it's possible to calculate something in finite time. At the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  are people whose work reflects the hopes that led to the prize in the ... concerns of citizens in Flint, Michigan to unravel a mystery that many in ... art and protest, and it challenges those of us in academia to use our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  experts in your field of research. As such, the best strategy is to provide ... Two weeks ago I flew to Pittsburgh, PA, to attend the Intel ... million in prizes. The Intel ISEF is the premier global science competition

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  come in to MIT "undeclared," and use the entire freshman year to explore MIT before choosing a major. In order to provide some real, concrete ... excitement and anticipation I had on my first day back in 1996; I wish I could

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two ... ). The Watchmakers worked in the Watchmaker Zone, and to help them test ... go through the Athena maintainers. So...in addition to all of those

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  In a world...where engineers want to become leaders...3 students must face the truth...about engineering leadership. As I hinted at in my last ... three of us took in the first week of IAP. Joe, who is the Chairman of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  in a tux **Many thanks to Gheorghe '07, from whom I stole many of ... planning committee, I feel it is my duty to share with you all the exciting event secrets. Seniors took a break from their theses to celebrate, among

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  Seattle, and many places in between (not to mention Puerto Rico and Hawaii). If you have registered for MyMIT, have replied to a letter/email we ... invitation to our meeting in your neck of the woods (haven't yet signed up for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the ... from students with something to report. If you're in a school that ... any new updates you want us to know about. Feel free to write in bullet

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Wednesday, 12/16/15, at 6:28PM ET

  

  ET). To check your decision on the 16th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username and password.   In order to ... enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  . Timeliness and preparation are the keys to success said no one in my family ... It is standard practice to leave MIT as quickly as possible upon ... passes to exams. Whether this speaks to ultimate time-management skills or

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  shelter to donate the proceeds to and, in less than two weeks, enough ... the daily struggle of MIT, I wanted to take time out of my day to do ... many other people were willing to do the same. About a month ago, while

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New ... the Spanish word that sounded closest to it. Hey, according to Matt ... her logic was that she would have time to hide it from me, figuring I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  regular action process. More on that in the weeks to come. Out of fairness ... in their applications to other great schools. Unfortunately, I suspect ... defer letter and the deny letter each come in a standard #10 window

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005