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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  end of July so I could spend the month of August working on Ben's couch. True story. I'm going through and tagging all of the bloggers' entries ... back and read all of the old entries. There's some good stuff in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final ... for my 7.28 final this morning, half of me was focused on the final and half of me was focused on the construction going on in Killian Court

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were ... the very best of luck wherever you choose to continue your education

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread For Those Not Admitted

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were ... the very best of luck wherever you choose to continue your education

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Public Art Projects ...for your amusement.

  

  campus or on the road, you've heard me talk about MIT's 2+ miles of underground tunnels. On mornings like these (3 degrees when I left the house), I ... mentioned one of the 4.301 projects in his blog. Knowing that these were

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of ... exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... no idea what any of those words meant). Sometime over the summer, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  four-week term at MIT that fills the month of January. For more than 50 ... tours, recitals, and contests. Here are some offerings from over the years ... materials Beekeeping 101 Make it: Pinball Ikebana: The Art of Japanese
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  awhile, we would expect to see the results of your standardized tests ... decision about what letters of support to send for review is left up to the ... There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  . "Distinguish" can mean "win every math award ever offered by the United States of ... school that offers *any* AP classes. Basically, the goal of the admissions ... deadline?" or "how many letters of recommendation do I need?" Please ask the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  -year programs. In fact, for the chemical engineering degree, instead of doing a ... DID YOU KNOW? Norah Jones is the daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi ... 'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  the middle of early apps) where I can find more information? My book is ... ?" I think you mean the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and ... have had MAJOR syllabi changes(going from ICSE to CBSE in the middle of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  the class is one of the most rewarding moments of the admissions cycle. I only wish we had room at MIT for more of the amazing people on the ... 've been thinking about that's open for discussion. The announcement of MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... -sympathetic acknowledgment: "Yeah... I just finished my fourth pset of the week and have to ... the triviality of his opponent's assignments, the other continues, "I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  seat of a rowing boat, and we would be gliding away from the dock ... , yanking the rudder ropes around like it was Head of the Charles. Other days ... , trying to hold a conversation over the sound of the Wright Brothers Wind

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  buckets of mail, plus all of the online application pieces. It's pretty ... ; Alumni goal: Leon Hsu   Sadly, a loss in our first game of the ... officers. The conference was quite interesting. Some of you might be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  it. >"< Last IAP, we had 3 hours of class everyday in the ... and have most of the day (except class hours) to have fun in Tokyo! It ... ." Pfft. Come to Japan and they'll show you what the lack of personal space

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  . Plus, I’d be on the West Coast near my family, have the chance to live in ... functionality that still hadn’t been implemented. Over the course of my internship ... placed with and the guidance of my manager. I was fortunate in that I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  here's just one example of a) how hands on the class is, and b) how it ... ? Charcoal is the product of incomplete combustion of organic matter. This ... causes the organic matter to be carbonized instead of burning away

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  offer) or decline it. We will be maintaining the waitlist for another few ... For the fifth consecutive year, we will admit students from our waitlist. Within the next few days, we plan to admit approximately 60

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , whatever you want to call it, with 5 degrees of freedom (aka it can move the ... to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time ... , sometimes at the cost of letting old skills atrophy. The second part of this

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025