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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  MIT has its own police department on campus to ensure the safety and well-being of the entire MIT community. "The MIT Police mission is to ... on a safe academic environment as well as emergency medical service 24
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  application questions at this time). I am on vacation celebrating the new year ... the holidays, I'll try to field some questions here. Please remember ... regular action admission to MIT. This means that you should you should click

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  my first trip to the farmer's market in Boston, on a lovely Saturday ... went to go do some yoga at a great (and affordable!) place on Newbury ... breathe. Here's a great article on how to make your berries last longer. 7

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT DDR Tetris on 6-foot LED Matrix "We did this because we were bored." -- Russell Cohen '13

  

  both, on a 6-foot tall LED display, thanks to three bored MIT students. Burton-Conner Tetris Battle (Burton Conner is the MIT dorm that is home to ... Andrew Carlson '12. In the comments on Engadget, Russell said, "We did this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google has a new site up: http://moon.google.com. If you zoom in close enough, you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  To start out the new school year, I'm going to try including more fun ... writing text posts, but I just want to experiment more beyond comics and static images. And Lydia may or may not have suggested that I try to vlog

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  , ever try to launch a very sketchy-looking homebuilt watercraft on a ... idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of ... together on a big project and learn from each other along the way, even the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m in New York Picturesss on flickrsss

  

  Staying with my friend Larisa in her and her mom's swanky apartment across the river from the city. And taking some pictures. Finals seemed like forever ago. Taking the train back to New Haven tomorrow.

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  figured a simulator is a good place to do it.  Until I saw a shiny, shiny ... was my turn. I handed my phone (man, why didn't I think to bring a real ... the Cessnas I was used to. A stick instead of a yoke, and my steering

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... on our refrigerator, listing all the dishes that had to be made. It

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is MIT a diverse community?

  currently on our campus who felt the same way before their dream became a ... At MIT diversity isn’t simply a word, it is an integral part of the MIT experience. MIT Admissions is committed to reaching students from
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  a huge achievement and will still lead to new beginnings; welcome them ... There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  starting with mechanical engineering and now going on to PhD programs in ... then apply it to biological systems. It will be a love/hate relationship ... questions in science, but it will also be a little scary to give the next 5 to

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  have a schedule that I stick to. I'm not one to sleep in really, so I ... friends. They really contribute a lot to my sanity some days. They really ... there to do something fun when I need a study break. As far as

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  to be working)." One thing to remember is that just because a hall is ... th West 2nd East 4th East And on to the point of the entry... One ... deliberately circled around here to make it easier for Yoyo to get a pic. "Grrr

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  morning, I felt a faint red soreness on my uvula, which can only mean that I ... pipe flow. This is what writing a 21-page proposal on drag reduction in ... thing I said to the lab assistant was, "Can you give me a hand? I have no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San ... , we climb a tall ladder and stand on a tiny platform, where we get ... . Then your left hand. (It really helps to trust the person holding on to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Giving Back (Guest Entry) Guest Entry by Kenny '13

  

  taught me: all that I have to be grateful for. I've got a great set of ... I am also a brother of Zeta Beta Tau here at MIT, working to help the community in a brand new way. I've taken this opportunity with my brotherhood

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  of the class. Or somebody happens to be one of a dozen people on their ... tend to have a lot more on hacks from the '80s and '90s than the '60s and ... 's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005