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• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  Here are some FAQs for deferred students... Is it all over for me ... who knows what it will be this year) What should I do now? Should I ... of these things. Simply sending in additional materials does not by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  see "what could have been." There was even free dinner!) It was a rainy ... 's holiday-decorated home... It's unmistakeably weather-oriented, no? On ... for Shakespeare. Iambic pentameter does not please my ears.) The

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  meeting did it occur to me that he could have been asking about some of our ... % of its solar array, and yet still the MIT team was able to finish in ... own shops. Design for Change: DfC does science and engineering for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  moment that feels like it will define the rest of your life. You’ve got one ... acknowledge it or not, you subconsciously know that this year is going to be ... meals. And the laundry you don’t have to do. You’re worried how the future

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  white shapes. please remember what it looks like very closely, and how it ... so-and-so urop, that sounds cool but how cool is it really? and instead ... . but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Room Tour 2017 edition

  

  peek of what is to come, I (finally!) got around to learning how to film and edit videos. Here's my first shot at it, and a room tour to show for it. Enjoy! Shameless plug -- stop by the Meet the Bloggers event

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  infrastructure in their own homes. That's how Google serves it's hundreds of ... office computer, bring all of your files down to it, do what you needed to ... system. It started in 1964 and helped timesharing become the dominant mode

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  checked my mail. A postcard! We read it, I showed it to Laura, and then part of her head exploded because she couldn't figure out how I, and only

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  certainly an unusual place. Case in point: no one really asks how your day is; they ask how your week is. That's because most MIT students take this ... work to do because you have too much and can't do it all. And there will

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Intermission Summer job: just kickin' it. And working at Pixar, too.

  

  breaths, and it's been.. really nice. That doesn't mean I've forgotten about ... "ra-ta-too-ee". Learn it! Anyway, I promise there'll be more shortly. How're your summers treating you?

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  quite a lot, and I have three finals in the next two days. Blah. Oh, how I hate finals week. I'm glad it only happens twice a year. Also, my camera ... pictures of the new 5th East kitten on it. While I am busy in testing hell

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  and I drop it off the Green Building which is 295 ft, how far will the chunks go in the radial direction when it crashes to the ground? Answer

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  titled “I am not Zorn’s Lemma”, and it made this play on how you can count ... "mother"? It’s from the same root we get alma mater and matriculate. It’s ... walang hanggan, “no end”. But it sounds so cool, awanggan, the way those

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  residents were interested in New House, so i wasn't sure how easy it would be ... 's mattress from her room in EC, but when i saw how decrepit it was, i decided ... was a challenge of its own, though. Burton Conner was cook

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  broke up with her by post-it, or the time that Miranda breaks it off with ... "Eggggghhhhhhh." I don't think it was at all acceptable to say "Google dot com" in ... looking back at the time when it was makes me go "Egggghhhhhh." It's like

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  and without battery life, so it was essentially never used. DESKTOP ... it thus became my third arm. It goes with me everywhere, and I use it ... software that is just computationally intensive, and it's not the best idea

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I ... last place" kind of deal didn't jibe with me. And I guess it didn't jibe ... how my academic life would be like died out within maybe 3 semesters of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  explain your project, what you did, how you did it, and why you enjoyed it ... website.   Q2) What is a Maker Portfolio? A2) We want to see how you ... , images, and video to record it. In total, all video elements must be less

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect ... , sometimes the match is perfect, but more often it's just pretty good, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect ... dating, sometimes the match is perfect, but more often it's just pretty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008