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• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s MIT’s mission statement?

  The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the ... academic study and the excitement of discovery with the support and
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on the School of Engineering?

  The MIT School of Engineering is world renowned. Covering everything from ocean engineering to aeronautics, there's something exciting going on in every department, lab, and classroom. There's way too much to
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  endorsement of Firefox still holds, though.] For the first time since August, my inner conscience begs pardon for the prolific plastering of my face on mitblogs; the bloggable fraction of my life has, since the start of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  List of Rejected Halloween Costume Ideas, 2008 Edition 1.Washing ... was to create an political statement about the troubled state of Random ... dryers. It's like the CNN of laundry. 2.My physics class: I had physics on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  So, it's the middle of January and although it was an unseasonably ... take breaks from reading so I used one of them to take a quick walk around campus mid-afternoon today. I went by some of my favorite spots, the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7:15PM ET!

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  [By Miren Bamforth ‘15] On behalf of the four other freshmen ... state something: our advising seminar might be one of the coolest classes ever. Each week we spend the first hour or so of class learning about

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  The Infinite Corridor at MIT is the pulsing spine of central campus. As the artery which connects most of the main academic and ... site of random tomfoolery. For example, MITHenge, which, according to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cheat Sheet This amazed me when I first saw it.

  

  about Mystery Hunt. This is an entry about one of the tools our team has for Mystery Hunt. We rarely used it, but the sheer amount of information on this PDF is awesome! If you even have a slight bit of geekiness

  • by Snively '11
  • August 2, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Being First is Important There can be many firsts

  

  Sometimes you should stop to identify all of the different pictures ... lot if you would write the names of what's in these pictures down and casually glance at the first letters. You know, just in the spirit of things. : )

  • by Snively '11
  • May 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D-Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... sort of pressure to some mixture of dirt and concrete. It has to be able

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  Hey, so as Shannon just mentioned, all of the EA admits got V ... ominous pile of ~500 cards, and started signing. Signing your name that ... , and perhaps some of the other bloggers, took some time to make some

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Class of 2012 guestbook and an update on The Tubes.

  

  As of yesterday, all 522 admitted students can log into MyMIT for the Class of 2012 guestbook directory (post your picture!). Also, all of the decision letters -- including the famed "tubes" -- were mailed yesterday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Fireworks over MIT’s Great Dome Fireworks and music and Dome, oh my.

  

  As I noted two entries ago, MIT has a front row seat for Boston's 4th of July celebration -- one of the biggest and best fireworks shows around. And now, you can watch a excerpt of the fireworks over the Dome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Wrapup Final thoughts on Campus Preview Weekend 2006.

  

  For those of you who attended: How was it? What was your favorite ... 't attend? For those of you who couldn't make it: What would you like to know? It was great to meet so many of you! See you again in the fall =)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties MIT alumni-hosted parties in your area.

  

  host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of ... list of all of the events. Tomorrow (Saturday) Bay Area, California. Meeting location: the beautiful home of an MIT alum. Tuesday Miami. With

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  destroy the organic unity of this entry. Anyway, in the midst of this not the greatest week, I was thinking about limericks, which of course led ... . Beethoven wrote only one opera, and it was called "Fidelio." 2. Nearly all of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  Read this book. Or you can just solve one of these math problems. The distribution of such prime numbers among all natural numbers does ... .F.B. Riemann (1826 - 1866) observed that the frequency of prime numbers is very

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  it really is beginning and so it begins

  

  That kind of means summer is ending. Jessie wrote in her blog how everyone is getting ramped up for probably one of the most exciting times of the year, Orientation. In about 10 minutes, we start our pre

  • by Bryan
  • August 24, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is the Sloan School of Management for undergrads, too?

  MIT Sloan School of Management will challenge undergraduates to expand their analytical and quantitative skills and apply a business ... . Fueled by the groundbreaking work of our faculty in such critical areas as