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• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Update The Waitlist Committee has finalized decisions and has emailed all waitlisted applicants.

  

  We are writing with a quick followup to Matt's recent entry. The ... waitlisted applicants. A brief overview: Of the 629 students currently on the waitlist, the committee has chosen to admit 35, to keep 64 on the waitlist

  • by Decisions
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  I have nothing but analysis left to do for the last Junior Lab experiment for the rest of the week. I went to the gym today, I'll probably go ... screwed as I thought I was. To celebrate w/ me is the MIT cheerleading squad

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  -based article short but sweet. Enough with the excuses, onto the introduction! My ... of guy. So from the minute I leapt off my five-hour plane flight to ... of two constants during the four-day trip was the cacophonous racket

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are ... estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

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

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  Happy May 2nd! With the final responses in the mail by today, it will be a little while until all the dust settles and we can tell you more about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I play football at MIT?

  The 2014 Engineers were the winningest (real word!) MIT football team 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
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  scenarios in which some life must be lost, (a more specific case of the ... being rationed) and will argue for how to resolve the life allocation ... rigorous moral principle that completely solves the problem, but that we can

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  joined the rest of the MIT cycling team for training camp in Borrego Springs, CA. The beautiful photos are by Peter Vanderwarker. All of them can ... about the MIT cycling team here. As thirty travel-weary MIT cyclists

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  entry. MIT is intimidating. This was the first thing that I saw from the bus: Yep, THE Stata Center. Designed by The Frank Gehry that I learned about in school. Later, I met The Snively and The Ben Jones at

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  I'm finally recovered from the Mystery Hunt... here's the "official synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in Lobby 7. The Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight announced the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  We have nice things on the walls And I have pictures.

  

  French House occupies the top two floors of House 6 (one of the six towers in New House), and the top floor of House 5. There are around 27 +/- 3 beds (too sleepy to think harder about it); two are doubles, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed Human Cancer Genome Project: The proposed Human Cancer Genome Project, as it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  Last night, I attended the ceremonial unveiling of the design of the MIT Class of 2007 class ring. (Thanks to Mitra for the invitation!) Each class year at MIT officially gathers three times -- once, at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  learning with the MIT Glass Lab, and I had an absolutely amazing time. Here's a walkthrough of all the different things I made this semester and ... I get something wrong!) This semester, I was taking the beginner

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  uncle. And although I am 2,880 miles away from MIT, I still attended the 148th Commencement (mainly through the live feed and Instagram). Last ... were plenty of people I could root for as they walked down the aisle

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  's "Under the Dome" Open House. To put that into perspective, hosting this ... place at the same time. Wow. If you haven't seen the flashmob video yet ... . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Future of Work How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals,…

  

  When I was in high school one of the most influential non ... "). This landmark book provides profiles of the inner work life of hundreds ... . "Working" had a profound affect on me as I thought about work, and the basic

  • by Laurie Everett
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  in Japan; research the potential of shale gas as an energy source at ... work. I have continued in the energy sector as a MITEI and NSF doctoral ... -plant efficiency. The project: I designed a hybrid solar-geothermal power

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  better job eulogizing the Milk than I ever could. If you're a milk ... Milk in the bottom of your cereal bowl, mug, or biohazard bin. The annual ... housing over the summer, trickling in from EC and MacGregor on August 13th

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  . Numerous posters in the Infinite advertised concerts, dinners, and movie viewings. I’d never seen MIT so formal and tame. But that didn’t stifle the MIT hacking culture. (If the term sounds unfamiliar, make sure to check

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014