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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  dolphin smuggling was a bit more covert. There was no way to sneak them in ... guilty about having not blogged in a little while. I think I may have said ... packaged that contained two dolphins, wrapped in masking tape. As we marched

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  students; the following spring, we performed those pieces in a concert ... local music and perform in a concert! Day 1 Fast forward to about three weeks ago, and we’ve arrived in Manaus – a Brazilian city in the middle of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  next week. That means that most of you who have a missing document will ... have designated MIT at a score recipient, you are all set; there is no ... application is not yet complete. Over the past month, we have received more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  in a nice bow. Well, this blog is different. This is my official ... a senior in high school trying to figure out which college I would be ... be: A mission operations engineer in Tokyo, flying a lunar lander to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Deadline check your MyMIT account now

  

  MIT tracking page is for!), as it will slow down the processing of documents ... Hi all- I’m taking a break from reading applications to give our Regular Action applicants a quick update. As of today, we have

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 18, 2014
• Blog / Events

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

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... 't have a very solid background in mathematics, so he was really confused ... . When this is a choice, more students give $0, and some students steal up

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

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  great export: How accessible is campus dining? In my realm of discussion, campus dining is a porcupine in a petting zoo of tamer subjects (like the ... through a wooden door, which is why I chose to live in one of the non

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  school report form. To reiterate a few other things mentioned in previous ... , there is a giant pyramid of mail that we are working as quickly as ... you account for the fact that each has multiple documents to send in

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  they were participating in a Media Lab study. (Yes, we would dash from ... subject lines like “free leftover iceberg lettuce in E52”; in fact, a single ... a jaded programmer. What happened, you ask? Well, in my senior year

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  , but essentially this is a lab class that juniors in physics take that ... three final projects to do. I had a pretty intense week. I think this is the hardest I've ever worked in a long, long time, but I'm really proud

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  response in a few days, that does not necessarily mean the EC is ignoring you ... anything, or to dress in a particular way. My bet is the answer is "no" on ... 've interviewed students who've submitted diddly. The interview is NOT a step in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  more modern tech in the form of a Canon 70D. For our final project, we were tasked with creating a short film, about 3 minutes in length, from start to finish. And during that process, I learned that making a movie is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  college admissions office. Having spent some years in charge of a selective admissions operation, the author is keenly aware of the pitfalls that lie in ... serve as a force for the betterment of society. The key for Thresher is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  a staple for the part of China my dad is from. The food was great, but ... A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch ... image “translation” model. In this demo, it takes a line drawing as input

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Disaster Relief .

  

  you can donate directly to the China Relief Fund, here. I hope everything is alright with your family, your friends, you, out in this ... speak with a flattened dialect, like this, I say. And I say I'll take them

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  she talks about her internship in China and how “it's never too late to ... fearing "falling behind" is being constrained by the pressure of following a ... yourselves. There is so much to do here, so much to get involved in, and so

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  reason I’m in China is to intern at an architecture atelier at Beijing ... Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two ... Cheng Mountain - Fun Fact: The scenery in Kungfu Panda is based on this mountain

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  there, so that’s a pretty good sign I’ll fit in. :) I also ... "meditation room" full of balls, which I loved being in. I spent a lot of ... 's length is measured in smoots. 364.4 smoots = 2034.6 feet, so think twice

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do letters of recommendation have to be submitted in the MIT application portal?

  Our preference is for recommenders to use our application portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit their additional documents via Naviance, SOCIR, or other methods. Applications will
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  Students and Alumni Awesome! I love that MIT is putting more of a focus on ... Labs is a new startup incubator/accelerator program for MIT startups ... , MIT Class of '92, is running the show. I haven't met him, but he's a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017