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• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is ... time filled with tons of events that will help you get to know the ... about the different parts of campus that you otherwise might not get to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  students from the waitlist. As such, it isn't ethical to keep all of those people on the waitlist at this point, so we will notify hundreds of ... the best of luck at the college they've chosen. We also will keep some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  -scale method of dismantling prions, the proteins that cause mad cow disease ... spread via the common American practice of feeding rendered animal parts ... ? To see the rest of the article, you'll have to subscribe to Discover

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the DCI site says: The goal of the Media Lab Digital Currency initiative ... important new area of research. The effort will reach across the MIT campus ... the DCI was established, the Media Lab hired three of the core

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] For me, one of the greatest things about MIT is the culture. It's hard to describe, but there's a peculiar mix of ... the number of neat things you get involved with, the more things you

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13 ... colleges in terms of waitlist size, usually keeping one of the proportionally ... uncertainty around yield, we decided to significantly increase the size of our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Halloween, Part 2 Sometimes it's fun to be somebody you're not.

  

  my friends in Senior Haus. Note the mural of Death (from Neil Gaiman's Sandman) in the background, which is one of my favorites, out of all the ... Anna '11, who loaned me most of the costume, including the marvelous coat

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  ) promising. You push open the door and smile as you hear the familiar jingle of a little golden bell. And then you see the dessert case; instead of ... it belongs in Plato’s theory of Forms; it exudes the very essence of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  city, my dog, my friends... So I googled for the email addresses of some ... , or the *clears throat* Documents of Early England Data Set. [caption ... subject of the contract (some land being given to monks from Pontigny

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  hue of morpho butterflies, the super water-resistant Lotus leaf, the highly maneuverable fins of the Bluegill sunfish: all of these natural ... . The initial discovery of the science behind the gecko’s stickiness

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  obvious drawbacks of being sick, it's impossible to catch up during the ... yourself healthy. Take this advice from a hypocrite. At the end of freshman year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  Prelude. In light of the halfways, quarterways, three ... someone out there is reading, learning something, or just caring out of the ... announcement that I'm throwing my hat into the ring with the rest of them. Nobody

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  Since nearly two-thirds of the admitted students are attending Campus ... of you a well-matched host for the weekend. Like online dating ... ": One part of CPW mythology is the "Weather Machine" -- that somehow, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What career services are available?

  that can help. Approximately 44% of graduates go directly to employment, and 49% of the Class of 2024 went directly to grad school. The average starting salary for an MIT undergraduate—regardless of major—is $126
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  beautiful spring day... ...when pushed off the roof of a 7-story dormitory ... should have tossed the upright piano onto the baby grand instead of the ... friends and I gathered around the frazzled remains of both the upright and

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu To you, and you, and you and you and you.

  

  Registration Day for MIT students (the official start of the new academic year) I ... opportunity to help people discover the MIT that I know. Those of you who are ... at MIT, I wish you the best of luck. It's a fabulous place, and I hope

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  wrote down "computer science" on the line of my application indicating my ... has one of the nation's top undergrad business schools, and I could even ... of shaping new developments in the world's train networks were starting

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  play dough

  

  things are out of place, which is funny because to the average viewer, my ... out and the thought of having random paint on my face always disturbed ... of all, I disliked play dough. I hated the way that the kids around me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  're awaiting finals, admissions decisions, or just the general end of the world ... responsible for the bad quality on half of these pictures. Blame the tech, not ... turning off all overhead lighting in favor of string lights in the halls

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  had today and failing pretty miserably. So, for the sake of my sanity, I ... hold, I kind of dropped it. Maybe the exhaustion kickstarted my creative ... all of last week's craziness, watching the sun rise with toast in one

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019