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Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET!
2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like...
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Psetting en route to North Carolina
It's been a stressful last few weeks. The weekend before Thanksgiving, though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day I left for the 2017 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Not Admitted Early
There were many wonderful applicants for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category,...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Deferred Early
As you know, we had a very competitive applicant pool in Early Action, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your application anew...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Admitted Early
YOU GOT IN! Check your MyMIT account tomorrow morning (around 10AM ET) for next steps for admitted students. But for now, go celebrate!
View ArticleMIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online
MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2021 are now available at > > > decisions.mit.edu < < < You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log...
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To Those with Dreams Deferred
My freshman spring, I had planned to put up this post about pi day, but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has been sitting in my drafts box since. However, I still...
View ArticleTips for the EA deferred
On Thursday, December 15th, we released decisions for Early Action (EA) applicants. There was a definitive resolution for those students who were admitted or denied in EA. Deferred students, however,...
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RA deadline Q & A
Hello, dear RA applicants! It's almost winter break and you are trying to finish up all your applications when you'd rather be hanging out. We understand and want this process to be as painless as...
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A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations
Hello! The 2.009 final presentations were two weeks ago, and it was AMAZING. If you haven't seen the 2.009 intro video please do, it's beautiful. If you want a summary of what 2.009 is about, Chris...
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Thanks Guys
This past weekend I was somewhere between flying and drowning. Finals were...... Finals. On the other hand I was about to be able to go home and see my family, and there was nobody I wanted to see...
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semester wrap-up
one year ago i was living in an apartment in seattle while on leave from mit. the apartment looked like this: this past semester i was an mit student again. i took four and a half classes and worked...
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A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days
When I was a kid, I always imagined my future as a certain genius billionaire playboy philanthropist. But kid me didn't worry too much about making any of that happen because it was something that...
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Mocktails
It's 2017 now according to the Gregorian calendar. I'm a frosh.5 (RIP PNR). I am currently about 1700 miles from MIT, physically where I was a year ago when I spent an entire day writing essays for a...
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It’s 2017!
Happy New Year, everyone! 2016 has been shuttered into the past, and the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of something like relief. It was certainly a tumultuous year...
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here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot
The admissions process develops seasonally and repeats cyclically. From the panoptic point of view of our office, we can tell, almost feel, the stress of the process as it gathers, crests, and breaks,...
View ArticleMIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM
This fall, I took SOC-STD 98LH Education and American Society at Harvard. It was a wonderful course, with fascinating readings and discussions, an incredibly helpful professor, and ample writing...
View ArticleUnits of Measure
I would like to direct you to this blog entry before we begin: Samuel Maurer's Day Off Good story, right? 5 months after this entry was written I moved into the same dorm, the same floor in fact, as...
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21 Firsts
It’s been 3.5 years since I came to the United States from Nigeria, to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while...
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The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT
If you've walked down the Infinite before, you've probably seen doors. A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one: What you probably don't know is that, since 1994, all...
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