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• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the meantime, I've got a guest post from my friend Elaine L. '18, who also wrote ... of your control. Back in high school, I spent my summers worrying about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  , but it is no different. But before I once again immerse myself in the ... over at the MIT Media Lab in the Personal Robots research group. I often ... First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  from creepers and during the night I hide away in my bunker and dig dig ... released in two day's time, at 9 PM on Thursday. But because neither of us ... cubes in a 3D world...The game is divided into two main modes, Alpha and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... assessments, or something else. In some cases, you may have the ability to ... help us get a better understanding of your mastery in a subject. We
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  with physics (which I accidentally got a B in, go figure). I think I ... getting C's (and by C's I mean P's) in all of my classes, and I feel that I ... than if I had locked myself in my room trying to get good grades that are

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  prospective member of the Class of 2016, this would be a mighty good time to log ... newly submitted documents. If at this point you would like to withdraw your application from consideration at MIT just email us. Ok, I'm going

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Engagement Party Salsa dancing with Benjamin Franklin and Optimus Prime

  

  Masters in Course 16: Aero/Astro) held an engagement party last Saturday at MIT, and at first I was going to spend the weekend in NYC, but then I noticed a funny question on the invitation and was so intrigued that I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  of making weird shapes in Rhino, I decided to use Processing to turn ... that I've gotten the hang of this (note: I've never really programmed in ... Hi!! I've been super busy over the past few weeks with various final

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  I be proud in four years to call myself an alumnus of the school? Don ... replies throughout this week. I assure you, we have a space in the class for you. If you've mailed in the reply form with an affirmative response, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I ... , it's not...that great. But I digress. I actually wrote the bulk of this post a month ago, so in the interim, I've also built a ray tracer

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this ... really impressive. I mean, I don't even bother registering for classes that ... stamps for us to spam irreverently. We proceeded to arrange them in every

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opera No, not the browser

  

  One of my housemates here in Boston is a grad student at the MIT ... what I brazenly call The Birthplace of All Things Good and Awesome (I ... solutions, inspiring innovations, and the mind-blowing leaps I only dimly

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  2,822 applications

  

  So, after two entries that seemed to relax people a bit, I do need to ... the early action round than we did last year. In 2003 we admitted 438 students during EA; this year, I anticipate it will be fewer than 400. Last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  Welcome those of you who have just joined us! I encourage you to read ... makes a good summary of an application. I just finished reading and ... I must say I'm very excited to be starting the application reading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  dining hall. I look forward to these dinners each week – the people in my ... ="attachment_40419" align="alignleft" width="175"] coming home[/caption] I visited ... some things that New York just does better. I had forgotten how

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Online Decisions = YES Some great news.

  

  Action and received a "final" action in December - i.e. admitted or denied ... available online in addition to the standard postal mailing. We expect to ... graduate). Your intended entry year (as designated in your MyMIT account) is

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  David in tow, I visited Random Hall, one of MIT's more distinctive ... . ;-) I chatted with Mike '09 in the basement, along with Antti, a prefrosh ... Good evening, America. I could give you another cool story laced

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  roofs. I like lists. Here's my happy list of things to look forward to ... Better Next Semester Cats So let's take this one by one. Mighty Mugs I'M GOING TO MAKE MUGS!! I was having my favorite caramel hot cider at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  First of all, can anybody out there think of a new blog tagline? I ... since I've already had to break out the long pants and awesome jacket, the ... -mail--who knows, I might pull a Mitra and end up using it. Classes started on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  MIT thinks that it catches on fire. On more than one occasion I've found myself outside in the snow or in the rain, waiting for the strobe lights to stop blinking before heading back into the dorm to resume whatever I was

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008