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• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Decisions Coming soon to a web site near you!

  

  Hi folks, So sorry for the delay in posting this - we wanted to be ... to check your decision online, you will need to have registered for a ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log into

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am ... corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math ... this year will be published on Tuesday. To make this a little fun, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s ... sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... purchase a solar-powered biodiesel station to make their dream of turning

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  and Emilia-Romagna regions. Interestingly enough, a deep foundation in ... . During my overnight stay in Milan, I travelled the roads of time to meet ... provide a residential congregation place for poor singers and musicians in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  dogfighters and barnstormers…and for two weekends in October, they host a Fall ... , then compete to see who could make the most cuts in the paper before it ... Tiger Moth taxiing back ahead of the Fleet Finch. We then got to see a

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  before I graduate... basically this means I have a lot to do in a very ... flew in from Texas, we now have the beginnings of a competition routine ... flip in the air instead of a twist.   Wrote two essays. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  to consider again in a few weeks."]deferred 10,656 applicants ... available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... in between. We can't wait to welcome them to campus to join the 4

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... Emeritus Mollie posted this helpful and interesting post to a discussion board recently; it is such a good start to answering your question that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  which enables women in poor communities to "get back the eight hours a ... are being transported to clinics in remote locations  ...and a ... Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  to be important.” *Helena Lam is a girl I knew in high school who liked ... then she walked with me to 6-120, where a Physics class was in progress. I went in and pretended to be a student, which was easy given the 100

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  planning to write a little feature about MIT mailing lists in the near future ... , layered with ice, piled in drifts...I'm no stranger to snow. But snow before ... ? That's really short! I haven't had a chance to contact the coach yet." I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine ... usual routines with reckless abandon in a desperate attempt to hold too ... Technically, there isn't much to shooting a pistol. Load rounds into

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  Jebby's so productive"[/caption] Anyway, I'm not going to do a full tour ... supposed to be Ultra Productive Study Session Day. Every two weeks, I make a pilgrimage to Lamont Library in Harvard and camp there for hours. It's far

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  and practice for the first time in eight and a half months? You guessed it: I did! Since my injury in preseason this past fall, where a collision in our scrimmage against Harvard left me with a broken bone and a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about ... how stressful a semester of classes really was. Being submerged in work and day to day obligations became the new norm. A shift of reference

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  I didn't start out this weekend trying to write a scathing expose on what it's like to survive at MIT with no TechCash, no cash, and a terrible desire to spend money on food at least once a day. This certainly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  UROP. Basically, my lab is moving to a new building in a few weeks (more ... moving over in a few weeks, and our head lab tech had asked me to stop by ... apparently caused my neck to stop working in a neck-like way (I would post

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  ’m not too familiar with Whitespace, but it appears to function in a ... renumbering classes relatively soon so this might become obsolete in a few ... more (in)famous esolangs. It stores its memory in a one-dimensional list

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of ... technical oral presentations and exposure to communication skills useful in a ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  forgot to bring food in a green take-out box from Maseeh lunch, and ... [/caption] Do you dare to reach forth and scoop a spoonful for yourself? If you ... to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022