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• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  questions that I'd ask: How diverse is a campus? What is the climate on ... ? Can I get ethnic food? Is there a decent radio station?) How do ... on your criteria of what's important in a college. This whole process

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  /O Brush is a project by Kimiko Ryokai in the Tangible Media Group at the Media Lab. Her site describes the invention: I/O Brush is a new drawing ... leaves me in awe. This time, it is the I/O Brush: [I just realized that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  green hoodie (which I was super happy about, because I've really been in a ... postcard, and a fridge magnet. We checked in, collected our items, got ... going to code in Johnson Ice Rink surrounded by a million other people, so

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  of a lifetime,” but to only focus on education is selling it short. In ... The Summer Science Program (SSP), which is co-sponsored by MIT, is a ... Walmart, which, in our tiny New Mexico town, was a destination akin to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Instructions on how to receive your decision online.

  

  received a "final" action in December - i.e. admitted or denied). What is the ... intended entry year (as designated in your MyMIT account) is 2007. You applied in Regular Action, or were deferred in Early Action (the system is

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  task is to choose a username for yourself. Yes, MIT believes in letting ... last name is uncommon and 8 letters or fewer, that's often a good choice ... something wacky, check with your friends to ensure it is truly a good idea

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  , too, but there is a much higher density of mythological life stories in ... let yourself rotate under the stars. On a good night in Boston, I see ... Hermes after being raped (surprise surprise) by Zeus. She is also, in case

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will you send me materials/prospectus/t-shirt/pennant?

  We appreciate your interest in MIT! We don't send a lot of mail (and ... the Bulletin, is available free online and provides a comprehensive description of all of the Institute's academic programs. We receive a lot of
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . similarly, looking at my grades is a choice i can make. i don't have to look ... too much. or, when a deadline for a decision is coming, i don't have to ... until i can listen to it. in practice, no news is urgent enough that i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  friends. A semester's worth of work culminated in 2 hours of shear ... corresponds to what its function in the circuit is. The battery is energetic ... something. . . " Off to the side of the stage a large black drape is pulled

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  drive from campus). In the midst of observing Ramadan and searching for a ... wind carried a coolness with it often. But in the past few weeks, I had ... had been hit by a drunk driver. She didn't survive. In Islam, we have a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  could make in a single turn is – I guess it's at least 8, if you could use ... my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags ... 'll be given a spot in the dorms"]never see again.[/annotation] I've mostly

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  , and left me in a somewhat disheveled state. There's homework, lab ... least six blog entries in the past month or so, I haven't had a chance to ... professor encouraged us all to stay in the class: a 46 on the exam

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our ... of projects, and is now a community of people interested in the intersection of art and technology. CPW is something we, as a club, were really

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  about life and criticisms of American foreign policy. All in all, it was a ... Satrapi said something along the lines of: "We live in such a conservative ... AIDS, there is a lot of joy. And life without joy is pointless." It

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  window, look at the sky (I hope there is a sunset) 2. Write down what you ... , feel free to email us at [email protected] and a friendly guy named ... and then besides watching traversing the MIT-verse? I asked a bunch of

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  in a sustainable fashion anytime soon. So, until we get a big ... released the MIT "Future of Coal" report -- there was a lot of interest in ... will present a summary of the findings in class on Monday. In the mean

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  matched in a way that made them very easy to stack. All you need is a ... students to customize their rooms is actually in the furniture. From my ... them up, use them to build, loft beds (or in my case a desk), and really

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  this post): 1. I have not blogged in quite a while. 2. I finally have a ... my shows, and thus there is a smaller likelihood that something will ... (Tina Fey is a comedic genius and all-around superstar)   And now

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  are, because first semester freshman year is a ball. My awesome pre ... the obvious fact that MIT is a tough place- the reputation exists for a reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006