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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  . Uglier than anything you've ever seen. On the other hand, you may instead think that it's the most beautiful thing on earth. The reason for this is quite simple: MIT has a middle school crush on weird

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  art and architecture. We were accompanied on our tour of La Défense by ... in France. The students of JSF 2018 and our chaperone, Prof. Perreau (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  unmanned spacecraft in 2010. "Choose a location on the outside of the spacecraft and get pictures of your content photographed in space. Choose a ... on a spacecraft! The MIT Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is selling

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  As though we weren’t hosed enough…

  

  of my dedication to bringing you interesting campus news and rants, I was out there attempting to take pictures at 5AM, while most of you, I ... ...we've been graced with a fire truck on the Great Dome! In case

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What kind of study abroad programs are available?

  spending a summer in China or heading to Spain during the month of January ... Italy, France, or Hong Kong? MIT International Science and Technology ... matches MIT students with a fully-funded internship, research, and teaching
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered. Pretty cool. And the winners of the ... reducing the radiation exposure of both patients and doctors the "Vac ... are being transported to clinics in remote locations  ...and a

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Goodbye, Hope to See You Again For those moving on today...

  

  are 500 individuals who find a better match, and letting go of other options can be hard on both sides. That can be emotional. To those of you ... , thank you for your friendship, and congratulations on making a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Countdown To Mail Drop I'll update this post over the course of the day as we get closer to…

  

  stack of admit letters in my hands; it was sublime). I was on the team ... and then call the post office for pickup. So to summarize, we're on ... Today is mail day. I'll save my emotional post on this topic for a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  ’ve been getting more than usual on the blogs lately, and it’s a trend that ... go with the SPAM joke?” Will he follow through on the Monty Python subject line? Will he show a can of the eponymous meat-like substance (now

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  Mile and Grosse Pointe Blank, and missed sneaks of School of Rock and ... very small number of schools, and that some colleges spend most of the fall (and sometimes a good chunk of the spring) visiting half a dozen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  Campus Preview Weekend is fast approaching, and I'm sure many of you ... not writing a whole lot this evening -- I'm still on Stockholm time, and ... be fun, and you'll get to meet all of the students you've been reading

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  on the wall, with a picture of a spiral galaxy, and a Frisbee on the ... , because we're geeks, and a cup of Something Caffeinated on our desks ... to it. So, here's a snapshot of what I'm doing RIGHT NOW, at 11:52am on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  ). Then there's that dizzying moment on the first day of classes where you ... largest part of your life. Like an aimless spectre you open doors and see ... landmines good and bad. You walk the halls that housed you on the hottest

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  and a walking encyclopedia of information on health and nutrition. We've done a comprehensive study of Beijing's performance in the Olympics and ... . To the Class of 2012 -- four years is an incredibly short time, and

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  shades of brilliant, MIT handles grades. On a 0% – 100% scale? Maybe “A ... externally. (Here is a list of all the letters/symbols that may appear on an ... the design process with introductions, a lot of questioning, and very

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  day. I'm currently running on 3 hours of sleep and will probably go to ... upon, Winnie has agreed to take over for now and help all of bloggers ... of the technical aspects of blogging are maintained and taken care of

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for ... the final "submit" button of your online application on or before January 1. If you are applying on paper, have the Post Office postmark and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  missed out on getting the best cooking book of all time at Barnes and Noble ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... questions and not on thermodynamic principles running subconsciously through

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  interesting in that 90% of our grade is based on problem sets, 5% on participation, and the remaining 5% on some in-class assignment that is supposedly ... my class notes consists of me quoting him and accompanying these quotes

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  was still unfinished, and so I finshed typing it on the bus ... this and I'm about to hit publish. And that's a little bit of insight ... the course of a week following my progress on writing this post. I want

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017