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• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... pie had a hidden cost in the form of this rating inquisition. Not one to ... information in order to make a decision, but there is no substitute for

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The CPW LiveBlogging Project A big experiment.

  

  that basically allows you to upload photos and thoughts to the web in ... variety of prefrosh guest bloggers during CPW. This has been done in the past with great success, and I'm looking very forward to this year

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  -- Hardware The Robotic Life group in the Media Lab is looking for a UROP to help with a project applying sociable robots to the real-world problem of obesity. This project intends to help people who are trying to lose weight

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  acclimated to my new community, the louder the whispers in my head became ... foundational thread in my journey that lead me to reflect on my impact in the ... Hi everyone! I am excited to be back celebrating this milestone with

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  . This summer, I had the opportunity to live in an apartment in Somerville ... or not. To continue this exploration in the dorms, I've completed step ... School has already started, but I have one last part of summer to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you won't notice any change to your MyMIT account until we're confident that everyone has had a chance to receive his/her decision via mail (or telephone

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  class as a whole — will stick with you. To show this idea in action, I ... ?!” Nothing, and I mean nothing, in my life has come remotely close to being as ... to compare and contextualize the ways people in different times and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  members of the LGBTQ community. In a charged letter to President Reif ... to avoid such situations in future. This is what Nasir Almasri, a ... place, the MIT community needs to be involved. In many cases, donors of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  in the United States. Over 200 of the top young women mathematicians in the country come together to compete for $49,000 in prize money ... here, at MIT, on September 17th 2011! Our office worked hard in order to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• FAQ / Interview

  Do alumni conduct interviews?

  MIT's Alumni Association is involved with everything MIT—from providing admission interviews all over the world, to sharing in commencement ... most diverse, talented, and invigorating communities in the world.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  guys probably want to hear more about the man behind on the machine. Normally, I like to write rags-to-riches posts in which students struggle through weeks of continuous all-nighters to emerge baggy-eyed but victorious

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  list of names that I have already responded succesfully to in both in ... Hi Everyone, As you've now heard, Mr. Peterson is going offline to study...uhh (something in the media lab I don't understand), for a year

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how ... project, he had the opportunity to spend a couple of weeks in a Japanese ... Researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my ... , the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to ... the MIT undergraduate education in 1949, was intended to culturally

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  is planning to major in course 6 or course 18, in part to find out what ... is thinking about majoring in course 6, maybe. Joel wants to show you ... in course 6-3 and linguistics. Michelle wants to show you her favorite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  World AIDS Day 2008 Spread the word.

  

  organizations from around the world come together to bring attention to the global ... gets infected with HIV/AIDS. Unfortunately, you all aren't actually here and can't actually go to the screening, but I've found a link to the

  • by Snively '11
  • December 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  ). Here's when you know it's time to go to bed. Roommate Jon: "Did you get ... Mathematica could do it." Jon: "I know, the same thing happened to me. I think I figured out how to do it though." Me: "How?" Jon: "Here, look what I did

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  interested in energy research or energy education, be sure to check out their ... projected to be available this coming semester in Fall 2009. With all that in ... Series and an Energy Discussion Series, in addition to large signature

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim ... before logging in to decisions.mit.edu. 6519 students applied for early ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  ! Our best and brightest! Go change the world! In contrast to those vague ... took the form of Mens et Manus. Of course, the former refers to faith in ... bio/about section of my blogger profile, which I wrote in either August

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020