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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  students reprieve and respite from the constant deluge of problem sets, essays, and tests so commonly found throughout the dread halls of the ... the MIT populace as a whole, but I have some amount of work to do - or

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and ... Traveler" and "Flirting 101." Students who "pass" the requisite number of ... of the Infinite Corridor. It's a beautiful and intriguing sight, one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!

  

  release of the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Building 9 was ... in Boston, the two biggest movie theaters, the Boston Common 19 and ... many, this is the end of an era that started with the release of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  between an absurd sense of calm and an overwhelming sense of panic. I've forgotten so much of what I learned in the EMT class I took over IAP, and I haven't had a whole lot of experience on shift. The latter, though, might

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  ? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the ... will be an exciting month. By now, I've read my first folders of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  located). in fact, it’s so small that it usually appears on the 2nd page of ... ."]graphene[/annotation] and motors and stuff, which i think may be one of the coolest jobs ive ... long, but the town is around the size of a 1 mile square) and saw some

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  feeling of being on the absolute same page with someone else, of being known ... of trust and closeness through personal revelation. In the end, the ... in search of more friends, new experiences, and potentially a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Home! I'm back in the US after three weeks in Asia.

  

  the new application season for the Class of 2010. My first Admissions ... the swing of things tomorrow. It will be a little strange to be back ... continuing of the Meet the Admissions Officers series, a look forward to our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sid Puram – Polymer Microspheres Sid Puram UROPs in the renowned chemical engineering lab of Dr. Robert Langer, developing polymer…

  

  times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, and are made ... DNA would be about the size of a ping pong ball and the air in the beach ... small bit of the procedure and the experiment finally worked. During those

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  add water, you're compromising the thickness of the sorbet and just ... some space for it to move... And then, right below where the blade of the ... the blade and still sat on top of everything not reaching the blade

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  Meetings. Across the country (and across the world) there will be meetings of ... A few updates for the Class of 2011... Tonight MIT students will be ... students now have a whole bunch of stuff on their MyMIT portal, including

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  Institute's history. At and by way of the ceremony, 1,054 undergraduates and 1 ... first Cross-Continental Solar Car race. "One of the very most important ... ). and over the past few years, including a period of time where i myself

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  exceptional. The admitted Class of 2018 includes mathematicians and marksmen and ... holding in common the highest caliber of character, conscientiousness, and ... everyone here, and for the new class perhaps most of all. As I wrote that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  solve, and must work for a massive party of hundreds. Designing the mechanics of the game happened over this past summer, and our job was to ... whole LOT of illustrator. Here is some of the stuff we made

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  Our beloved Mollie shares a birthday with another friend of mine, and ... reasons, not the least of which is emails like this: From: Mollie Burgoon To ... will be born on my birthday, vs. an average of 0.00274 = 1/365 for the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  game. Each class taken unlocks branches of other exciting classes, and ... interesting and highly-rated classes while still hitting all the requirements ... information about the requirements for each major, when classes are offered, and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  buses arrived in a cloud of dust and we stormed the orchard, wielding ... and a bottle of apple cider, we sat down between the animal pens and the pumpkin patch, breathing in the smell of falling leaves and listening to the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  ever! In front of an enthusiastic home crowd on Senior Night, the MIT ... the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. The win gave the Engineers the first nine-game undefeated regular season in MIT history. The Engineers captured their first
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  , pickup trucks, parents, boxes, and luggage. All of these are for the people ... 't had a whole lot of time to be nostalgic, mushy, and all that irritating ... , passed all of my classes, and am ready to start the next part of life at

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  weekend. First and most importantly, I got nine hours of sleep last night ... "pickles" and turned it into a ten-minute series of skits featuring the benefits of veganism and eating organic, the need to wear furry boots, a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013