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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  So in hopes to show you more about what classes are like, over the ... build a car to complete a specific task or set of tasks and score as many ... scorers won a free trip to Japan to compete in an even larger design

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  , whether you're a major (or double major) in Management Science, or taking advantage of the new minor in mangement, or even to people not affiliated at ... -of-the-art trading room ever built on a university campus. Identical in every detail to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  they can find out in a minute or so, before they pass you off to another ... each individual dorm in an attempt to showcase their culture. You get to rank all the dorms by how much you want to live in them (1 through 16

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of ... there. At MIT, we refer to rooms in a format like this: 10-100 (the ... . Buildings on main campus are numbered in a more or less logical system

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline & Taking Questions Advice for RA applicants; I'll answer questions Thursday.

  

  note that you do not need to express mail or overnight your application ... is ready to go, click that button, or stamp that mail! I hope these ... students applying for regular action admission to MIT. This means that you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  literally nothing compared to the doom you face Cry or groan (choose one ... Try to concentrate on assignment Fail Browse memes Try to ... food; order more Wait for more food to come; browse memes They forgot

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  to take either the 2" (50.8 mm) or 4" (101.6 mm) wide rolls, one can ... the people living in my suite, we were using it to seal off cell ... . Why? Because they don't really need to focus on marketing or anything

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  my fifth stack of homework in today on time. Yeah. I'm going to sleep ... Well, as Laura said in her latest entry, tonight was the "telethon" event. I probably called fifty or more people, though many of those calls

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  snapshot of the last two weeks picture of my brain

  

  hope to bridge gaps, not in knowledge or reason or respect, but in two ... who can't fix BART, or have never taken BART. And if Google offers to ... national sense of patriotism, or a common commitment to individual liberty

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more ... 're a student or a parent, you could forward this to your math or science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... homework, or psets, in MIT-speak. For any given pset, you likely won't be able to do everything on your own, so you'll find (or make) a few friends
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  keep us up-to-date with any news in your life. This is not required nor ... , or all new essays? No. You do not need to "improve" your application ... ...) that you feel would be helpful to the committee. We do not expect or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  scores in the Part II, but note that we ask for "Date taken (or to be taken ... 'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes for anything you might mail in (like a fee waiver request or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  . You may also want to keep us up-to-date with any news in your life. This ... essays to be particularly helpful or insightful. I generally do not ... if you can still send in music or art or a response or Question 13, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  if you're black, white, or somewhere in between. You don't get to ... disadvantaged in the workplace, in social institutions, or even just in day-to ... . In other countries, issues of class divide, race, or religion may not

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  on more college admissions decisions (and/or maybe happen to like ... different environment. And then in the third phase we get to do whatever kind ... continue to study it in school. We are bringing it to Twitter. We tossed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  are caught up in their research, maybe just want to show off how smart ... and say, “Man it sucks to have to do this paperwork or to deal with this administration or to deal with blah blah but I am damn lucky to being doing what I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  deferred in EA. Can I call or email to find out why I was deferred? No. We ... who were admitted or denied in EA. Deferred students, however, will have to wait a little longer as we reconsider their cases in Regular Action

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  decisions are released online. But you still get a tube and/or big packet in ... - what's your story? Feel free to share in the form of pictures, haiku ... ). Looking forward to meeting you all in a few weeks! :)

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  If you follow me on Instagram, Twitter, or (god forbid) LinkedIn, you ... taste or research in some way.” Danielle, the journalist: “What do you ... friends, or vice versa. As a corollary to #1, it’s fine to have bad taste

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023