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  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  In 1966, B. Alden Thresher, an economist and the first ever Director ... the Public Interest. It's a longstanding handbook of the admissions ... more than 50 years ago. What I love about CAPI (as it's called) is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  Previously on the blogs, I’ve written about MIT’s commitment to diversity throughout history. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ... and Latin America (read more here). At the beginning of the 21st century

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  "It has been calculated that if no accident prevented the hatching of the eggs and each egg reached maturity, it would take only three years to fill the sea so that you could walk across the Atlantic dryshod on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and ... applications yesterday to experience 5 fun events. First was the famous MIT Charm ... Someone Something They'd Rather Not Hear," "Hello, World: Manners for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  There was an article in the New York Times yesterday about a topic ... . You can read it: Some New Help for the Extremely Gifted (registration required). The article has two components. One half talked about the newly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the ... ("non-linear optics," "top of the class"), Colin Farrell's secret agent in the film The Recruit Dilbert (electrical engineering), from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a finite time horizon. Infinite games where the goal is to keep contributing to the indefinite play of the game itself. For example, art

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  was one of a series of events organized by The Committee, an elected ... wholesome gingerbread house and person decorating event quickly went off the rails, thanks to some wonderful teamwork—we’re all about the collaboration

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the traditions that temper the pains of work and study with the welcome relief of ... between the entire constitution of Pecker, plus a few friends from

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  The first MIT sign appears on the corner of the gracefully named Emerald Parkway 20 walking minutes from the destination. Whoever made the track this far through the August sun must’ve cared greatly for his guests

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  defense the other bloggers didn’t believe i could write a post about basketball

  

  and my favorite part of the game is seeing very effective defense. there ... this post, so i won’t try to. instead i’ll just say that the most common kind of defense is man-to-man defense, where each player on the defending

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  Back in the day (TM) when I was a prefrosh participating in the ... for you. The rainbow is the symbol of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Community, so the Rainbow Lounge at MIT is the home to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  Late November, fall hangs over the Charles, obscuring the river’s sparkle with a curtain of grey. The life of the Frosh shifts. Dulled is the thrill of the first impossible PSet. On sleepy breakfast runs, the Dome is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  Blogging the Ring Premiere is a big deal. Like, really, it's a big deal. Look at the application that Snively used to determine which ... 't know that blogging the Ring Premiere has become, and I here quote, from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  Note: xTalks: Digital Discourses is a seminar series from the ... Mehta, The University of the Future: Lessons from a 2600 Year History. This blog post is a summary of the event

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South Dakota was, for the most part, uneventful. I[annotation note="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  Today is an exciting anniversary -- July 20, 1969, was the day Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the moon landing, folks around here are pretty excited. Start with the short

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  - 4.141, where you apply the iterative design process throughout the semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a tl;dr, here's the document I used to present my final project (edited

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  ," as it was known then, was established in the Back Bay in 1865, but ... the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court annulled the merger, then ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  hosted a graduation barbecue in the backyard for 40 people. We set up a big blue and white striped tent, rented round tables, brought out the outdoor fireplace and placed it way back on the lawn with chairs organized around it

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011