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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  Infinite like the rest of campus. It's a historic summer at MIT, for ... like taking a picture of a bathroom door at 1:30 in the afternoon in the busiest hallway on campus? No, really, just think about it for a sec. "Uh

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  Howdy folks, First of all, thanks so much for the phenomenal advice ... . I wrapped up paternity leave last weekend and have been at the Harvard Summer Admissions Institute since Sunday. It starts at 8AM with breakfast

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  Today's tie: See for yourself below! An eventful day! Today, my ... Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT ... . Ben answered the phone and they chatted for a little while... On our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision letters mailed

  

  Admits525438383 Well, there are two factors at work here. First, we are ... spaces for regular action, further pressuring people to apply early. We don ... 're aiming for a smaller class this year. So, given our 1/3 constraint, our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  desires has occurred for me while at mit the really powerful thing about ... every iap at mit. i took the class in 2020 and was an instructor in 2022 ... on the back, which you’ve wanted for like two years. take the extra

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  Growing up, Thanksgiving was an extremely important holiday for my ... graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... . Cooking for thirty people was no easy task. Every year, a menu would go up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  marathon at Chicago in 2021. Chicago is known for its fast course and it ... at night, but opt for the late afternoon (I still cannot get up early ... "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  't take for credit (or at all) at MIT, we cross register at the ... , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts high school we went to, and for 11th and 12th grade, we transferred to a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  for tumblr to this post, which I hope will shed some light on the ... students into steel (see last week's post for even more fire metaphors ... guess that at your high school–just as in many high schools–the days you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to ... , and have no class at all on Fridays! First, there's 17.303/11.003: Methods of Policy Analysis. I need this class for my humanities

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  and with a full schedule. Here is a look at how I am keeping busy for ... infinite corridor is total chaos as tourists and students battle for ... grapefruit, and sat in front of my Real Analysis class (18.100A) for a solid

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that ... the same lecture, but if I sit in office hours for enough time, it ... year, registration for this class is lotteried probably because Professor

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  for the most part electrical), the brickwork at the bus stop has a ... the time. I will say: I'm excited for sophomore year at MIT. I ... guys come out for the parades: That's a pirate ship in downtown

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  Ideas, so I approve. East Campus has been buzzing and punting for the past few weeks in preparation for this weekend's events.  You can see the ... found things to do, like observe the meat eaters preparing for their

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  Midyear Grade Report is intended for students who have indicated on the ... released, which defeats at least half the purpose of the whole form. And ... that there is also an option in the Report for students whose schools do

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  than usual. I’m reigniting my IAP resolution to cook dinner for myself for every night in January. During the semester, I usually grab dinner at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I need a mule. I also need to train for ... camera at the MIT Hobby Shop. After months designing and building this ... August, just in time for its first shoot during the Student Art Association

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  . I have only a few days left in Switzerland (I will post pictures at ... picture of MIT at night, looking out over West Campus. You can see the West ... didn't take it. :) What, you've been reading this for months and you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  Taking aim at MIT Plano West sending 4 students, more than any school ... MIT as Plano West. "When I look at them, I see gears turning," Timur ... 're going to do great things, and I'm happy I get to be there for the first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  their ballots today. Here at MIT, employees are guaranteed time off for ... exams to help students have more time to vote. For students and staff who ... the franchise."]polling location at Kresge Auditorium

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020