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• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions ... fundamental confusion between our admissions process and the results of that ... %, it does not mean that the chances of a given applicant who scores

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  about this time during my senior year of high school and that was really ... state college the next. And I got lots of work here now, but at least I ... Applicant for the Class of 2021, and see how you’re doing. If you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures ... regardless of what you call it, there are many, many ways to acquire sustenance at MIT. Some of these include: Meal plans 5-star restaurants

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  Ruth said: "Seriously, update! A more pictures, less blocks of text ... , gracefully has her cake and eats it too. And the rest of Conner 2 (plus ... ? Well, I finally made it home and then spent a lot of time catching up on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  [annotation note="Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture ... week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth week of school. But hey! I did build that loft! And she is BEAUTIFUL

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  detect front and back foot taps with a fair degree of accuracy.  But you ... interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time ... understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  + snoozes. 8:53: First snap! Of a TMAYD MIT (Tell Me About Your Day MIT ... elevator art on point? (We’re the Home of the Velociraptors, in case you were wondering) 9:06: Aaaand it’s cold outside at a crisp 45 degrees. But good

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  the end of the month. As for the online application -- which is how most ... 's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have ... applicants who love MIT and show high passion, how does MIT choose? Of course

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  the bottom of this blog entry. You may have caught this news item ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... . If the program beats the humans, the field of artificial intelligence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  lot of stuff left unblogged. Taylor V. '19 did something like this in August 2018 when she strung together some scraps of potential posts that ... going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... needs to be capable of being made somehow. 2.008 teaches us how to make it real. Of course, this is MIT, where we believe the best way to learn is

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  In the summer of 2011, MISTI sent 22 Biology students across the ... brief look at some of those internhips: Samin Houshyar Class of 2011 ... about France. The project: The aim of my project was to verify

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  . Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may ... Ever heard of Alan Lightman? He’s one of the most famous professors at ... have heard of some of his books: Einstein’s Dreams (1993), Good Benito

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I live are preparing to celebrate Marathon Monday tomorrow but for those of ... can provide. Since I am involved with many of the parent events during

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  that work great rather than offering a whole array of less robust ... April, a group of four sophomores, who are all incoming GEL students, won ... -recognition application, EatOn. This program helps drivers choose restaurants by offering

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  some sort of Associates’ Degree, from a community college*. So I became ... know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the ... people who tested out of a lot of our required courses and were already

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  Last day of lab Friday was my last day at my UROP lab after three years of research. I cried. Thankfully, I didn't cry until after I got ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  at least some degree. Just recently, a friend of mine was having a ... Ahhh, yes. I know this time of year. Left and right you have tiny ... petals. Baby bunnies hopping around gleefully at your feet. The smell of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  years ago!) This summer, one of our goals was to find another sea turtle ... more than 2 months to no avail… One of the nights we wrote a poem with ... and started laying her eggs. It was around an hour or so of her mainly

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  . 450 degrees is also okay. Add a generous amount of salt and pepper and ... degrees Fahrenheit. Pour about a cup of olive oil into a large bowl. Add a ... This is the more hardcore half or so of the 42 recipes. Most of these

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013