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  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  Kamen. Today is the kickoff to the FIRST Robotics season. And, as is the ... Mina '03 (who is now working for Kamen's company, DEKA), and JKim ... , winding driveway, one of the first things you see is a large wind turbine

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  applications for MIT. One word I would use to describe application reading is ... write this, the entire dedicated team of MIT Admissions Officers is busily ... hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  assuage my curiousity, what is it about MIT that draws you personally? I ... I'm a little exhausted from answering questions right now, so this is ... all excited and happy to be at MIT... and they are full of questions, so

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  lockers. All MIT students get Athena accounts, which allow you to have your @mit.edu email as well as some server space with MIT. This space is known ... got into MIT, how hard can it be? I totally know what FTP is (file

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... such a situation, the first reaction we might have is that of the ... collocation. The simplest approach to such recording is the list, a group of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  MIT community. Our community is comprised of good people. People who ... MIT, PAKSMIT, is collecting donations and manage any sort of ways to ... regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  : next on my calendar is the Siemens Regional Finals, hosted here at MIT by ... role and responsibilities in the office. This is a problem, but unlike most we take on here at MIT, it's a easy one to solve. As many of you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  MIT application is that we don't prompt for a single, longform essay ... Update: this list is no longer accurate as of 8/18/2015. But the ... , as readers of this blog likely know, MIT does not use the Common App

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  !!! 2.009 is the Product Engineering Process class, usually taken by ... bicyclists (One thing I really think is cool about 2.009 are the little demo ... garbage can cleaner, which will be used by MIT facilities after the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the ... move on with my life. My grad student's policy is "you can make every ... . This is turn explains why I've spent the last two hours of my life

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  This is it, finals are in two days. One of the things that scared me most about MIT were MIT Finals. I've already been through one round of ... at MIT are just like finals anywhere else, cumulative and difficult

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  :30 am to 2 pm. And where is this Luncheon? The beautiful MIT Faculty Club ... Hello, everyone. This is probably the first time anyone has heard of ... -spanking-new Faculty/Admitted Student Luncheon. This is going to be an awesome, low

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Go Sox!

  

  's even more exciting when the team is winning. The night of the seventh ... with is, until we couldn't all fit in the elevator. But that's not what this post is really about. It's not even about the fact that the Red Sox

  • by Evan B. '10
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  after Terkel's landmark book, I found myself completely drawn to MIT Sloan Professor Tom Malone's book The Future of Work. The title alone is enough for ... through the 20th century. Now as the first decade of the 21st century is

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  *Correction as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic ... , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The latter of these changes is always accompanied by questions, so I wanted to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  , the version of the MIT ring that's available for graduate students, is a ... idea of me going to MIT when he got a small, gray MIT t-shirt for me to ... -shirts, and other MIT paraphernalia, primarily because I'm much older (and well

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  technocrats REALLY the right place? Well CPW quieted all my doubts. MIT is ... ready. MIT is amazing. ... ;Nerd Pride” shirt at the Coop, went to the MIT Admissions Road Show

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  fall semester, my natural, MIT-conditioned response is to rattle off the ... answer is that IAP is truly what you want it to be. MIT students and ... when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is MITES Summer?

  MITES Summer is a rigorous six-week residential academic enrichment program for rising high school seniors—many of whom come from underrepresented or underserved communities—who have a strong academic record and are
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Research (NIBR), which is located just down the road from MIT! I pass this ... Medical Engineering Society (BMES) I quickly signed up. Novartis is a world-wide pharmaceutical company that is headquartered in Cambridge and but has a major

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005