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• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  big stacks of folders to evaluate, still with summary cards (or "E-3 ... Things are starting to get quite busy! Now that the Early Action ... rather canary yellow! Okay, so this might not be so exciting to you, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  means that if you choose to make a video streaming startup, or a social ... cost and cycle time.  If the costs in a field have come down recently, or ... in 3 months? The answer is to shorten your cycle time by aiming for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  -- got to know some of my co-workers a little better with more time in the ... anticipated "Jesus: The Ride" to much fanfare: If you're interested in ... ), and then Thursday and Friday, I met up with an MIT alum in Texas who

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT ... /January deadlines. Aside from simping over MIT a bit too intensely, I wanted to get in ... every passing day here at MIT — how to not beat myself up over turning in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  '12 tries to become one with the igloo Steve '12 tries in his own way ... Brothers of MIT Sigma Chi retreat to Maine from Thursday -> Sunday ... of 8 feet, we found that almost 13 cubic meters of snow were used in

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  sentence is to be interpreted literally in the context of “there's so many ... post in one blog!**** ****Experiment truncated in order to minimize the ... Physics Students) in your major are a fantastic way of getting to know

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  Black leadership. in that spirit, she asks us to consider -- what might ... legal in Florida to kill a Black child. For the silenced, the internet is ... isolated in their experiences to find connection and collective purpose. In

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

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  few steps along the way," said Mr. Sahin, who plans to major in ... biology teacher Barbara Pittenger for inspiring him to pursue a major in ... preparatory curriculum available to them in the Plano Independent School

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  teaches design and manufacturing, so the first month or so is dedicated to ... , which guaranteed that I would play someone who was unable to score in ... ready to kick butt: I was able to score 3 engineering balls in the A bin

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  Martha Stewart), in addition to visiting all of the above locales. We not ... Mariane Pearl to health tips, in addition to the expected celebrity news and ... their $40,000 fellowships to support women in science. With that in mind

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  application to computer science. Unlike Tic-Tac-Toe or Chess, poker is a game of ... - to determine what the best move is in any given scenario, since the ... get to sit in the same room as the real winners and eat free pizza

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  to get homework extensions or makeup exams (especially in big classes ... "]four to six weeks[/annotation]. (Spoiler alert: it was not, in fact, general ... for four to six weeks – [annotation note="In hindsight, maybe not the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  Science and Engineering, as well as a minor or concentration in Linguistics ... simple it is. I make it every week or so for my family in the evenings and ... position it's sitting in so you have to turn off the food processor, open it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  's around! He's a busy guy, after all), whether it's to chat, to get advice or an ego-boost, or even to crash on his couch. And so a few of my friends ... . Conveniently enough, my UROP is in Building E25, almost right next to Senior Haus

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  vicious attack. Not to be deterred or beaten down, a recovery mission was ... awesomest hat ever, it should be here in about a week or two. We actually ... wardrobes come new and exciting activities for MIT students to take part in

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  wide in the sun; oaks in forests grow tall and thin to get what they can ... The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read ... I liked them. It's a list of all the books I read or started any time

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  artists (or not as much as I'd like to be, anyway), but we wanted to ... year round, but I will try to write a bit more in the future, I think ... out of you to found another race. in the myths it's always unwillingly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  .01: Classical Mechanics. (Should I be linking to 8.01t or the 8.01 in lecture ... On Sunday, a coworker and I decided to be tourists in our own city ... to walk our bikes down a steep set of stairs, across a path underneath

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update The title says it all.

  

  Well, Mystery Hunt is in full swing, and let me tell you, it is quite the adventure. I just took a quick trip back to my room so I could grab my driver's license- ambulance driving lesson in less than an hour

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.

  

  Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Welcome to Round ... is rumored to contain all of mankind's knowledge to date 6) Stu's water

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 24, 2005