Search

Search Results

• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  If I'm not mistaken this is the time of year when you begin in ... . Why do we send you all of that stuff? Good question. The answer is that ... at this point.The only way to know that you can't afford a school is

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  laptop cases? this is not that post. this is a post about my desk, which ... semester but balancing school and writing is hard"] my novel manuscript ... recycled [annotation note = "an MIT Reads selection. the author came and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  cannot get here fast enough. My brain is very fried. There's only a couple things that have kept me going. And a big one is listening to this video ... .  You have many aunts. One of them is your father's sister, Askale. The

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of ... . '17, is a Chrome extension whose birth I witnessed (and blogged about) at HackMIT last October. Then called "ImagesAsText," he took home

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  -quarters-ways done with MIT posts that have been popping up left and right and the all ... someone out there is reading, learning something, or just caring out of the ... is startled. I'm sure. But I'm going to do it anyways. I've lost the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  sorts of majors here at MIT to choose from that have nothing to do with ... physics. Awesome, I picked a major that essentially is everything that I ... harder. Check this out Junior Year of High School: This is a nice summary

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  . This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT ... system is missing something? First, do not worry. We do not assign blame on ... will not look at your application unfavorably because it is missing an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  applying to college. Not just applying to MIT, but the entire college ... hope is that the students who are reading this will realize they're not ... , and home state or country. There is no prize for "winning" except that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  about 2.001. 2.001, Mechanics of Materials, is pretty straightforward ... forces always equals zero, or else you did it wrong and life is unhappy ... were wondering about my programming issues (why is d+=1 legal normally

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Up To Date! Tracking your application.

  

  have received. Now we're really ready to read applications! This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will ... . What happens if the tracking system is missing something? First, do not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). As for the admit letter, it is unlikely to be mistaken for anything else. Jane asked, "I always wondered....why is MIT ... While this is a much smaller percentage of the class admitted early than

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  The thing about short weeks at MIT is that they're not really all ... work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly ... -Thanksgiving dinner last night. We had two turkeys! In this picture, everybody is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  's Wok and Noodle Diner for a birthday dinner. Betty's is right behind Symphony Hall, so if you were to use your free College Card courtesy of Arts@MIT ... night is when one of the more interesting parts of the celebration began

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  to yourself, self, those look like classes at MIT. You would be right. Since MIT lives in numbers instead of words, the next step is to gather ... going to win? "Here is my schedule. I just can't seem to get the times

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is ... opportunity to do so. Greg is one of the most talented makers I've ever met. He ... , like our own Chris M and Snively, is someone who is really fantastically

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  everyone's... but mine. In mathspeak, for all MIT students not equal to Kate Rudolph, the set of parents of those students is a subset of the set of ... here for what is now over nine weeks, the longest I've ever been away

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper ... .” My goal for the upcoming academic year is to expand into as much ... couch as a bed and a chair as a desk in the past 2 days is a reliable sign

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  , "Academics" it is. The MIT Outreach Initiative "seeks to disseminate ... goal, isn't it? The Outreach Initiative with which I am most familiar is iCampus, which is funded/sponsored by Microsoft. Undergraduates

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the ... things that I like. First, the word "factor," which is something I like to ... realized that my nine-digit social security number is prime. I don't quite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  ; specifically what comes to mind is the Schachter-Singer theory, where the ... itself and (2) the interpretation of that arousal. Obviously this theory is ... from something I know is good for me, but I know it is not what I need

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023