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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  HYPERfine question, for reasons that will become clear as you read on ... volunteered to step in for her. 8pm. I stood on the badminton court, racket in ... spontaneous tutoring session The debate started at 9, so I turned on the TV

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  you were admitted on the basis of your merit. So should you report your

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder ... Universe - which is pretty mind-blowing, since we owe much of our theories on ... will: I am currently living on a Navajo reservation, forty miles from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  -Fun-Times (although I’m working on getting that changed). Let me preface this story ... -games-I’ve-played-are-Frogger-and-Oregon-Trail n00b. As in, the-only-programming-experience-I-have-is-using-the-“Store”-function-on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  -issue. However, there are a few freshman doubles on every hall. In these, the beds ... norm. Over in Matt's blog, there was a question about why MIT is on the ... beautiful. The gestalt effect of all the murals painted on a hall or floor, or

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  . 1 trending series on Netflix right now, garnered a lot of attention ... show's creators center the plot development on her trying to get with the ... teens who get perfect scores on their PSAT's and participate in a host of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer housing for transfer students?

  Yes—transfer students are guaranteed on-campus housing for their entire undergraduate education! Learn more on the MIT Housing & Residential Services site.
• Blog / Personal Travel

  clownazoo tetazoans in the wild

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 3, 2023
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I join the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change?

  . Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change is MIT's response
• Blog / About Decisions

  These are the droids you’re looking for (on Pi Day) beep boop boop BEEEEEP

  

  be available online on Monday, March 14, 2016, beginning at 6:28 PM ET ... use our automated system to reset it. Visit MyMIT and click on the forgotten username or password links beneath the login box on the left.  

  • by Decisions Droid
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  a webinar on the science of vaccines, and the role they will play in ... here on Thursday, April 8th, at 4PM; a recording will be made available ... for ending the evolving pandemic, an Institute-wide webinar on Thursday

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / En Español

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  airplane tires stacked on top of each other and covered in glass. Meeting ... tickets and luggage…a lot of forecasting based on data and calculated assumption.” There was also analysis on card purchases made on Volaris

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  Bringing STARS to Campus: Reflections on our first STARS@MIT Fly ... -In program this fall, we’re reflecting on the incredible success of our ... STARS Ambassadors and I met the visiting students on the first evening and

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  WebcastHere is the White House Press Release: BACKGROUND ON THE PRESIDENT ... Moniz, Director of the MIT Energy Initiative, will lead the President on ... a brief summary of what the President will see on the tour: Solar

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU GOT IN! It's time to You might be wondering, “What’s next?” Well, [annotation note="or now depending on when you see this"]later today,[/annotation] you’ll receive an email with details on what’s next, so be on the look

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring Break! A little guessing game.

  

  At approximately 9.30 pm on Thursday night, Spring Break will begin. I leave for (blank) on Saturday. Anyone want to guess where I'm going ... for Spring Break, I'd definitely be down there working on 2.007) Hint #2

  • by Bryan
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  Education Office) and the last for research on village reconstruction projects ... reasonable question why an MIT math major spends so much time on the other side ... waste, I'm going to write this blog post as captions on photos. My first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  energy on campus from Day One. I want to share my experience of being an ... students are invited on campus earlier than the rest of the incoming class. During the first week on campus, MIT organizes a lot of activities to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  with you some thoughts from MIT writing faculty on AI-assisted writing ... commentary in the popular press (and Discourse™ on social media) about these ... , especially those who are focused on writing and teaching. So I was pleased to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m_cheung_) on Apr 13, 2016 at 4 ... Startups survive on momentum.  How do you maintain momentum when you're working on problems with a time scale of many years?  If you're a nuclear

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016