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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  I wrote this email two nights ago, a little after midnight:   woke up ~ 5 am today. it was early and the sun had not risen. i contemplated going…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  This year MIT is celebrating a century in Cambridge. “Boston Tech,” as it was known then, was established in the Back Bay in 1865, but quickly ran out of room.…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the MIT Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep understanding, and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere. Last…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  spring   verb 1. move or jump suddenly or rapidly upward or forward 2. originate or arise from noun 1. the season after winter and before summer, in which vegetation…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  The other day, I had an interesting conversation with Kayla E. ’15. She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours later,…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m_cheung_) on Apr 13, 2016 at 4:07pm PDT   If you know anything about startups, you know Y Combinator.  YC has spawned $50 billion…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  10 (more) reasons why MIT is beautiful part tvte?

  

  Part 1 here (1) Because sometimes when you’re heading home after a long day of classes, you turn around and see this: A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m_cheung_) on…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  CPW (or KAPOW, as we call it sometimes) starts tomorrow. We are thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past week, our inboxes have been…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  Study: Continuous Data Stream of MIT Student Reveals Something  Department of Physical Education | Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139   INTRODUCTION  Recruitment of Volunteer Human…

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  Hello everybody! My name is Katy and I’m a senior studying electrical engineering (6-1). Joel has kindly let me write a blog post for him about my favorite thing about…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  Planned Parenthood Youth Advocates Today at the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, I completed my final Youth Advocate training (a program that I’d introduced here). The eight Youth Advocates and our…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop a glacier…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  I’ve blogged before about how, a few years ago, Jeremy Rubin ’16 managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to distribute $100 in Bitcoin to…

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

  2020 Admitted Student Gatherings Get a vision of your future at MIT

  

  With Campus Preview Weekend just a few weeks away (sign up here if you haven’t done so already), early spring is an exciting time for the MIT community. Newly admitted…

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  This is a guest post by someone–Michael T. (UMD ’19)–whose college essays I helped edit last year. He’s a friend of a friend who wrote an entire essay about soldering.…

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now available at   > > > decisions.mit.edu < < <    You can log in using the same…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN! CELEBRATE! BE HAPPY!  

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would…

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students. For those of you who fall…

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  It’s Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to work. It was dark, and a bit chilly, but it’s a big day, and…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016