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• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  like we captured the memey, spontaneous, chaotic energy of BC perfectly. I'm a big fan of the "testimonials" section and even wrote my own, but decided to not include it in the final version of the website... burton

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  reference to Cambridge and its neighbor Somerville) The weather here sucks. It has been 45 degrees and raining for the last week. Yes, this is ... I'd heard that Anna '02 (like Rax, an alum of my hall, and now a grad

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  reply date for other colleges? You should accept the offer of admission ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  he fit in the aisle in front of the first fold-out seat. Here’s the view from my seat in the last row, and then some of us in front of the ... end there were two of us in the first row, including the driver, three

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  , and partying, the months of August, September, October, and now, November, passed in rapid succession. One of the things that you learn ... day. You can pray for 36, but it isn't going to happen. One of the best

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  whatever classes they want, within the constraint of satisfying their degree ... experiences with Course 6-9 and give an overview of what the major is like ... departments! It was announced in the spring of 2019 and remains MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

   https://www.facebook.com/data4blacklives * * * i'm sad i won't be able to attend most of the ... talked about the the power of technology and data science to bring change to the criminal justice system. CATHY O'NEIL, author of Weapons of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  list helps us manage the inherent uncertainty of not knowing how many students will accept our offer of admission and enroll at MIT in the fall (as ... students accept our offer on May 1, and also a great deal of uncertainty

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT ... 've ever wanted to get out of the wind more in my life. While my thick, wooly ... -ness whenever I go outside. Moral of the story: wind-proof jackets are your friend

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  other courses I want for the remainder of the day. Today, in artificial ... any requirements. I walk into the classroom and a bunch of people wave ... visit the computer science office to discuss my prospects of double

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  , next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer admission today, we ... Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to have fired a cosmic EMP directly into the heart of our server farm

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  into the hundreds of activities and announcements that line our hallways ... add research, books, art, etc to our archive of inventions. Down the ... manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2028 are now ... to the MIT Class of 2028, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have ... here. Given the competitiveness of our pool, we have also informed 3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  specifically. However, many of MIT's larger departments offer courses and other ... addition to taking classes, the best way to become part of the nanotechnology movement is to get a UROP at one of the many laboratories conducting nanotech

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  description reads: Lectures by leading experts on the fundamentals of COVID-19 ... -focused credit limit for first year students. As of today, you (the person reading ... salience of this subject, and consistent with a tradition of opening the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken ... issue, whereas currently the weather in boston is around 50 degrees and i ... of my feet, i had several minor foot injuries during the past year

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... on Monday about the importance of small farms 4. Brigitte Madrian (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  real. Of course, this is MIT, where we believe the best way to learn is ... yo-yos! Faced with the challenge of deciding what what we wanted our ... Space Jam. For those of you who aren't familiar with the movie (sad day

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... such a situation, the first reaction we might have is that of the registrar, taking note of the many forms of being. Let’s adopt ontography as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  the left of "Advanced" to get to that setting). This is what you should ... change the size of each page by clicking the symbol boxed in solid Basics There's a bunch of tools to the left side of the screen. Every icon with

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019