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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand ... knowledge…we are almost like the people of Babylon. We are able to communicate

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It's a pretty big shift coming from the typical freshman classes of 200 ... promise I haven't fallen off the earth! Coming off of pass/no record, though

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  in a dorm because of the different community that it offers from my ... skimmed over and thus it makes the process of Rush seem arbitrary and random ... happen each day, and each member of the fraternity try to go out and meet

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my ... pretty wide variety of food offered on any given day, so if you don't like ... isn't cheap, but neither is any kind of food in Boston (the price of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  As you probably know by now, MIT has completed the process of admitting the class of 2010. I am very proud of the Admissions professionals ... overwhelmed with the staff's knowledge of individual cases and their passion and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap was the sofa in front of the TV. A side effect of television was the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... the University of Chicago (and many other schools), we're happy to grant ... 're quite interested in finding ways of making college admissions and the high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  Michigan, University of Texas and University of Toledo. What’s the story ... recognition, so that’s where Sarah and Marie learned a lot of the basics of writing prompts and designing this kind of system. The first time they

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  backwards-looking of my own. Kim has a collection of old Techniques (the MIT ... interesting to see what has changed, and what remains the same. Many of you will ... for the admissions officers, that’s for sure... Of course, in 1918

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  college classes because of a vague mood disorder. Bad news: The culprit was ... didn’t magically fix everything. In the fall of 2023, I quit my senior management position—the one I thought was the peak of corporate American dreams

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  degree[/annotation] weather. 15. Kill the batteries of your equipment ... -and-outs of making a film—from the very beginning of storyboarding and ... more modern tech in the form of a Canon 70D. For our final project, we

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  scenarios in which some life must be lost, (a more specific case of the ... strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution ... able to account for differing intuitions in variants of the life

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  brains are somewhat bad at understanding the value of the things we have and exceptionally good at wandering into pools of regret the example ... the instant we went virtual i’d have tried to make different kinds of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  students this year for the Class of 2016. I know many of you have been ... As the May 1st reply date has passed, I know many people on the ... . Each year, we always plan on admitting students from the waitlist

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump ... the United States is already having an impact on members of our ... contact David Elwell, associate dean and director of the International

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  , imposter syndrome just sort of, exists. It’s a voice in the back of my head ... just cover it up with the confidence of facts. Fact: I am on track to ... . Sometimes, I wish I could get rid of the voice. That it didn’t just linger in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  graduation. I haven't graduated yet so I have no direct knowledge of this.) The ... . Even more fortunately, MIT offers a wide variety of courses ... person had the chance to share his or her thoughts. If twelve of the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT ... the predictive validity of our decisions with respect to subsequent ... accessible to everyone well in advance of the application deadline

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  her treatise on the formation of the Constitution of United States ... research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and the formation of the Constitution, and yet she was willing to sit down

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  First off, congratulations to the Class of 2012! From what I hear you ... . And now, with the congratulations out of the way, it's time to get to the meat of this post. MIT is the greatest place I know to study any

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008