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• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays and Good Luck As regular action deadlines approach, try to relax a little

  

  considering a possible course layout for the next year or so, seeing where to ... decision deadlines for many colleges, including MIT, are fast approaching, so ... California for Christmas, enjoying balmy daytime weather and good home cooking

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  's advice to people looking for UROPs is to make sure to look for UROPs that ... at MIT's Center for Materials Science have completed constructing a ... an ultrahigh vacuum. The microscope will now be used to image the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  , "I would never do a program like that. I would hate to leave MIT for a ... sometime! I've really enjoyed going to London, even just for the day, to see ... -MIT Exchange (CME)! For background on the program, check out the CME website. CME

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question Part 2 An extension of the previous thread, which grew quite long.

  

  Quoting Prashant from the last thread, "Number of ways to compare two ... 't need to win the USAMO to know that's a lot of ways. What a lively discussion it has been. It's grown too long, so we're continuing it here for

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  'm writing an article about the tournament for the MyMIT website, so I won't write much here. On Friday, I went to Charm School. I had a hard time finding someone to go with, since people tend to get offended when you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  from my house (according to Yahoo! Maps) is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what they do, think, and feel. MIT was one of the first universities to have ... that prospective students can review to help determine if MIT is the
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  Each year we aim for a class of approximately 1,100 students. Based ... 't possible to exactly predict how many students will attend each year. To help ... 't know if we will be able to select students from the wait list until
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does the MIT admissions process work?

  After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel as though your ... the details can add a lot of stress to the waiting period, so we're happy to shed some light into that black hole. In fact, we outline our
• FAQ / Interview

  What if my interview is waived?

  Counselors all over the world, we may not be able to arrange an interview for every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your ... admissions committee will be aware that we were unable to offer you an
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Minesweeper Monday Episode One: Quantum of Solace Emulator

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to episode one of Minesweeper Monday, a bit that I might never do again! In this episode I talk about Coffee and Radio and Movies and try for far too long to get an emulator of a game to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  have to learn to work together and play together, and it makes for a one ... they do at some point for everyone), I had a home and second family to ... for all my friendships has been staying up to talk until 7am (helps that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three ... everything. What's dorm life like? It varies dorm to dorm. As for me, I'm sad ... . Usually I'll go to classes and stay on campus for meals at Maseeh, studying

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  aerobic capacity, which allows them to run at blazing speeds for long ... fibers are not powerful enough to run at high speeds for long periods of ... For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  minority and I don't intend to speak for them. I don't think gender should ... than he deserves, so let's try to reorganize here before anything gets ... , saying "According to Mr. Nance, everyone who is accepted is qualified, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  for myself and I don’t like to break them when I know they work ... stuck like glue to the bus that took me directly from the apartment to where I work. For that month, I was under the impression that very few

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  aiming for a class of about 1,020 students this year. Based on our ... "yield"), we admitted 1533 students. However, it isn't possible to exactly predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  't have to wait for a machine. A view from outside (it's distorted ... This morning I went for a miserably hot run along a busy road by my ... 'd post some pictures. Plus, you can use the Z Center for free during the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  difficult to describe, but essentially it was a very moving, for lack of a ... went to see an opera for the first time ever! Specifically, we went to ... for it because, when else do you get to take a day trip to see a famous

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  tell, this is a very expensive class for MIT to run and we're all really ... the Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity, our job was to take the ... away high paying jobs for the opportunity to work at MIT and they all

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006