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• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  the applicants. A similar number of students were denied, while those ... by leaving only a very small number of spaces for regular action ... penalize those students who apply regular action. While this 30% is a much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  would obviously be a bad idea. In other school news, for those of you who ... saying that I have successfully written, among other things, a program that takes the standard deviation of a set of numbers. Which really isn't cool

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

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some ... /Vice-President candidates' debate. I've been through two UAP/VP elections (with a 50% success ... . This is actually a good pic, though I bet my mom would disagree (she was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  from William A. Koch. Who is he, you may be asking? Well, from the MFA ... , chemical engineer trained at MIT, world-class sailor, and devoted father. A benefactor of the Museum, Koch is also a passionate collector, described by The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  .) Unfortunately, one was a casualty of some rainy weather today. Anyway, back to ... Staples building. You can't see it from this picture, but there's a ... , bean stew over rice, green tea ice cream, red bean ice cream, flan, and a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Prof. Acemoglu’s Clark Medal On the front page of the Business section of today's Boston Globe, there's a story…

  

  , there's a story on the John Bates Clark Medal being awarded to MIT ... to an American economist under the age of 40 for making a significant ... during a tumultuous period of economic crises and political unrest, when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  't write much here. On Friday, I went to Charm School. I had a hard time ... , so a lot of what you see below will look familiar. Charming music ... (Tommys?) were really cute. The five-year old one sure played a mean pinball

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  There's always this hum on campus, some whisper of a noise either from the drone of some electrical wire or the whir of a machine or the ... machines, you'll hear it. Feel it, even. A tiny, rhythmic pulse that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  directly lived has moved away into a representation.[/caption] [caption id ... aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can ... its own general unity, as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  community. Today I'd like to take a look at Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund ... . What's interesting is that a lot of DRF backed startups in the Boston ... a lot of grad student startups, as DRF isn't only limited to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  of 1929 when senior class president C. Brigham Allen brought together a member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring ... , patient, strong, hardworking, and, like all who graduate from Tech, has a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  data as being predictive or revealing: What's happening here is a ... process. When we say that the admit rate for students with a 750-800 was 15%, it does not mean that the chances of a given applicant who scores

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  Congress just raised the debt ceiling, after a protracted deeply partisan ... (D-NY) suggested using the 14th Amendment to the Constitution as a ... US politics? Professor Pauline Maier, a history professor at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until reaching a completely different planet and moving there. Until about two and a half months ago, I thought that was just one of my many fleeting

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42 ... sophomore year, she developed a strong interest in international development ... gripped Niger in 2005. After taking a few classes at MIT that focused on ID

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  't care how much you like your temp assignment. I'm sure Mollie, who's a ... versions of a lot from new frosh, is "I love my temp living group and am ... are interested in FSILGs don't have a hard time understanding why they

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  News Office). Congrats, Farhan! I took 21A.453: Anthropology of the ... . (I liked her so much that I took her class 21A.348: Photography and Truth the next semester.) Anyway, our 21A.453 class had only 3 students in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  looked forward to entering ~introvert hours~ all day... alas. A chase for ... solar geeks are on this list I thought I should share… it’s a [Kp9] night tonight, and if my tracker is accurate, we should have a chance of seeing

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  students on F-1 visas to take a full online course load this fall if they are ... decision would "encourage schools to reopen" this fall, a statement that ... MIT has participated in a legal challenge to immigration policies

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  Since its founding in 1861, MIT has been a special place for ... a fatal loophole in the founding charter, that you can actually study ... Institute of Tarantella: A lively course of study in performance. Vivace

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019