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• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  strengths and limitations of fMRI compared to other techniques, and the design and analysis of fMRI experiments, focusing primarily on experiments on ... . Chebyshev inequality, law of large numbers, and central limit theorem. My

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  in the shops around MIT, of any gender, have been respectful and ... building project is like a sidequest: fully unnecessary and a lot of work ... these things. I simply had some copper plate and a bandsaw in front of me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I get on the mailing list?

  We don't do a lot of mailing, but you can sign up for our awesome monthly email newsletter that shares what's happening on campus and—if you're applying—provides updates and tips.    
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz ... on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a ... surprisingly large pool of obscure and random knowledge, and even more

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Although three members of Queen routinely sang lead and ... Freddie Mercury, recorded on four separate tracks and mixed together ... liederhosen, many of whom were even playing oom-pa-pa music on tubas. Do people

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Does MIT offer a pre-med program?

  Approximately 10 percent of MIT's senior class enter medical and ... prehealth major; rather, students can pursue a variety of majors and take classes in any department. However, students need to fulfill certain subject
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the ... respond to this e-mail with your name and your year. In the case of too many ... Committees but thought they sounded neat. and, of course: (2) Free food is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  's kind of clear what to do at any given moment, though, and coupled with ... watched Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts and streamed random things until we got tired and slept. That night, people shared some of their

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  entry, Kevin '11, Joe '12, and I had an on-camera discussion about how GEL ... -night adventure in the MIT tunnels in which he surprisingly relied on a lot of ... . And in case you don't believe us... The cabinets on their epic

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.

  

  Did any of you notice today was a square root day? I didn't, until I got a friendly email reminding me of this rare mathematical oddity ... with Groundhog Day. The next is seven years away, on April 4, 2016

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  your chances of getting to meet me and Mitra! You could see such amazing ... me, not that he took my exam and then handed it in. Of course, that ... very pleasant and fluent conversation with Frau Bittner of which I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  years ago. I was left with pieces of pepperoni and cheese on the ground, a large stain on my pants, and a burnt-and-undercooked slice of tomato sauce ... perplexingly, the tip of the slice always flops down and [annotation note

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  and found a bench to sit on. The number of spelling errors significantly ... molasses exploded and flooded the streets of boston, and it straight up ... of an overhead view of Charlestown and the North End. The trees were

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Michael Stipe played an ice cream man on one episode of "The Adventures of Pete and Pete." Happy Groundhog Day! Wow, thanks for ... frightening nightmare last night. Read on if you dare. So as Melis and Bryan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  afraid to take advantage of that resource (and thank them afterwards ... television of our youth. guilty as charged). Because I graduated a little over ... they love questions and interacting with students, so don't be shy! Two

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  provide any and all grades available for classes you’ve taken in your ... ;Semester grades will be available on ______________________ and I will mail or fax ... on time.  Thanks for taking care of business!

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  't even fully erased! One of the nice and amazing things about Diamond ... announced while he was still on his flight (I believe). His wife and son ... makes 3 current or emeritus faculty (Diamond, Robert Merton PhD '70, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  in AP Calc BC, and was kind of let down when I got a 98 on my third ... week ago, one of the admins on the MIT Class of 2017 Facebook page asked ... .  And while that's nice for the ego, it's not so helpful in terms of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can I find info on Graduate Admissions/Masters/PhD?

  The Office of Undergraduate Admissions handles first-year and ... one of our departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department has its own application website and admissions requirements.
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  , and every open space was packed with people. Some of the exhibitors even ... didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register ... media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019