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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  mission to make the world a better place. We deferred 5,853 applicants ... Updates and Notes Form, which will become available in mid-January on your ... deferred students on Saturday. Because of the competitiveness of our pool

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  major is so long as you take the required premed classes, many of which ... . It is apparently supposed to continue snowing later today, so I ... asked me to take pictures the next time it snowed (snew would be a better

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  ^_^), your host is a great resource to ask for advice about choosing which of ... Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation ... to be taking over MIT's campus in five days. You may have heard of it

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head: FIRST Robotics (or any sort of robotic shenanigans, really). Rocket ... “mens et manus” to refer to—and second, I never did any of them. Nor was I

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  Watsonville. We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which is rated the #3 ... England Aquarium, which is in Boston, just a few subway stops away from MIT. Here's our boat, the sqrt(2*kinetic energy/mass) -- or, as some like to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  , he shares a lot of wisdom about MIT. One of his posts which I read on ... old methods of learning, or appearing to learn, did not really work. In ... desk space, so there is nowhere to work on paper. In addition, my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  checking out the forums on The Art of Problem Solving. Tracy, it is best to ... . After that time, it is appropriate to send any documents again, by fax or ... is admitted to MIT is eligible for financial aid, regardless of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  Being a blogger is a bit of a weird job. Your only task is to write ... expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... 's thoughts on if a topic would make a good blog or how to structure a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  mechanisms which control anxiety. To do this, she performs brain surgery on ... . She is forming a committee which will work to reach out to more schools ... Engineering major (which is new to MIT), Brain and Cognitive Science research

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic ... is barely holding together. As events unfolded a number of questions ... ?" "Are you okay?" "What is the point? Nothing is going to change." "You

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  someone or something." The point of this is to say that it is hard. Your ... -minute speech on one of them, memorized, citing sources. Decisions were to be ... it gets better, and allowing yourself to accept that is important as

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  concentration, which is public policy. I was slightly skeptical of 17.303 at first ... checked to see what parts of the problem were correct, which parts were ... . One main benefit of this approach is the ability to iterate more quickly

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  .) LSC GUY: Hello, and on behalf of LSC, thank you for coming to this free ... , here to talk about his movie, Doug Liman. DOUG LIMAN: Hello, my name is Doug Liman and this is my movie. These clips are from a week ago, which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  -- which, well, is not something to be proud of.  As my friend Steph C. '15 ... of school is to "teach you material."  Tight, clustered deadlines don ... what I am proud of, is the fact that I've managed to put in these hours

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

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to ... your college applications (or whatever else you choose to do) this year ... of you to apply to MIT. It’s an honor and a privilege for us to read

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  introverted guy, so it's on me to keep conversations going. One-way is hard, and ... ability to sense which part of a multi-part song you're going to take, and ... usual author is at home in H-burg, I get to tell you about my recent

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  accidentally got glue on my eyelids and had to rub parts of the makeup off ... is 24 inches. I saw some videos of people tying two 14 or 18 inch locs ... 'm ashamed to say it does. I feel like the possibility of becoming great is out

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  . Or as she said, "It's good to know where you can be better, but it ... developed, which owed to the discovery of restriction enzymes. These guys ... DNA is negatively charged, it'll be loaded on the negative side of the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  to experience Interphase EDGE/x, or live on Conner 2, or host an ad ... application is open to all MIT undergraduates of any class year. This ... a cool new thing in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  thanks to our sponsors and to the wellspring of resources that is MIT AeroAstro)--most of the other planes were made out of monokote (which is sort of like ... possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014