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• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  on this day. To acknowledge the day, I asked the Miami crowd for a ... ), including a beaver (go MIT!) carved for them. Left: The EC Breakfast in Miami ... Hospital for the meeting, thanks to one of our Educational Counselors who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 1 The first winning entry in the photo contest. What a view!

  

  half. What a view! (Click on the photo for a zoomed-in view) ... The Orientation photo contest is off to a great start. The first ... Iran. This photo was taken from Arya's 15th floor room in the dormitory

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  get a copy of the detailed syllabus for the GIRs so I can start ... , by designating their lab class as a CI-M. For example, the required ... ? Well, in terms of a boyfriend for Veronica, I vote Logan all the way. Piz

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  like a baby fresh out of the womb. I stood there in awe for about an hour ... drummers working together creates a crashing backdrop for the weaving ... railroad bass line graced my ears. I bolted from the group and entered a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  and cheese bread, and didn't accept card half the time, but for a sweet ... My fellow readers of the MIT Admissions blogs, a great tragedy has ... Dunks? Without a question, the only place the Stud has left to its name is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  have been answered here. Here's a popular one, just for the record: Lee ... name of the fictitious character who often takes responsibility for ... practical jokes. But I'm going to build up the suspense a bit longer, because

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  . Incidentally, if you apply before the deadline for direct funding, it’s also a ... This past Friday was the MIT career fair, a huge event where hundreds ... interested); I attended company talks primarily for the free meals. I spent my

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  paper, the group proposed a largely text-motivated method for generating “visual hashtags” for an infographic. In a nutshell, they used the text to predict a category for the subject of the infographic, then trained a visual

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  was work to be done! I went to a meeting for the IAB, the Industry ... it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... the hooding ceremony for MIT doctorate students and shipping out of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  inside a windowless room in the basement for an hour because the door broke ... like GPT-4 for not knowing basic facts you can find via a quick Google ... probably not the best way to do so). I was a bit disappointed that Google had

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  astrometry, UVA now uses it primarily for teaching and public outreach. On the ... , well over a hundred visitors flow into and out of the building. They cluster in the dome, waiting for their turn to climb up the wooden steps and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  fare for the industry. I already posted some of the cinematographic behind the scenes for the drone delivery video, but this interview delves a ... officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like preparing for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  forcing upon me. As a new MIT athlete, the first thing I had to do was ... Medical Report and the Supplemental Medical History for Varsity Athletes ... required for all incoming freshmen, so I hope everyone met the deadline

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  write about like the first-year bloggers have been doing (at least not for this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose ... workings of the black-box tools we took for granted in 6.2050. For example

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I join a fraternity/sorority?

  -of-class experience for the students at MIT and be a proponent of the shared values that living-learning communities provide. The office works to promote a cohesive ... principles of leadership, scholarship, and citizenship, the FSILG Office
• Blog / Admissions

  All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…

  

  I wanted to let you know of a change in the admissions process for ... . There is no preference in our process for early applicants. We use the same procedures for admission during EA and RA. MIT limits the number

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  ) Tower Bridge, for comparison A rather progressive afternoon tea in the ... city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and ... -made channel. Within a few years, the London Bridge became Arizona's second

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  that were clear around me were the oceans - and, for a moment, my mind ... from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... any excuses, I've been looking for ways to recharge myself and face the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  As I've said many a time, but will say again for new readers, I live ... across the hall. Sara '12 is also a resident of Conner 2. You may remember ... taunting and the teasing came to a head. Sara misspoke one day, and Yuki

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What other student resources are available?

  MIT offers a myriad of health and well-being support resources for students. See the DoingWell site for more info.