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• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  we will notify students. I don't yet know what day we will notify

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Enigma Gold Star Winners! Don, tell them what they've won...

  

  To follow up on this entry... Thanks for playing Engima Wrapped In A Riddle! Don, tell them what they've won. Wow! I am impressed by how many of you met the challenge. Initially we had planned to only award one

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I don't know what to say. Today, President Susan Hockfield sent this message out to the MIT community: From: Susan Hockfield Subject: Tragedy at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  Ever find yourself sitting in lab, thinking "What in God's name am I doing? Does this research even matter?" Have no fear! Check out this list of the 20 Craziest Scientific Researches. Some of the Craziest

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  .edu domain (and, I might guess, those on rpi.edu and cornell.edu). Relatedly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  Perhaps the most interesting research is the work that surprises, startles, and really makes you think. On the train on the way back from a conference at Princeton, I read two articles in today's New York Times which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  sites and predict a winner! I'll think long and hard and make my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  sense of how engineering practices differ around the world. (I'd like to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  to be! Here's some general tips and comments I have about UROP hunting that will hopefully make it seem less challenging. Note: I’m not going

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  This past semester I took Intro Psychology at MIT with Professor Gabrieli. He's an incredibly intelligent and engaging professor that has some of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  now, we remember how cool and artsy we thought it was. *m a x i m u m c r i n g e* But we also remember how fun it was to make this type of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  her omgomgomg-I’m-so-excited hand gesture. Then Allan did his omgomgomg-I

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  , things worked out. I asked when the gravity of it all sunk in. There were ... opportunities is an undercurrent of amazing people. “I made my best friends ever

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  note: I'd like to give a shoutout to the team from USC, who had all their ... people's minds. Not to mention it looked fabulous--I'm beginning a campaign

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  :17-24:17 All the ponies in this town are CRAZY. Do you like ponies? I like ponies. Do you like friendship? I like friendship. Do you like magic? I like ... Random House of Pancakes: I'm a delicious warm pancake smothered in maple

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  get if you call 911.  In certain medical emergencies (I hear sports ... !). MedLinks I am one of these!  Basically, a MedLink is a student

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) It's hot. And I do mean very warm. As you all know we are in a heat wave right now. Not only did my bike handles melt a bit when I got on to ride

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  at MIT. Somehow, I had missed this. Luckily, my MIT contemporary, Joel ... . Here's the story, as I have come to understand it: The Grateful Dead

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] For the final art blog of the school year, I’d like to tell you a little more about Cracked. Cracked is a student ... Davis Square in Somerville to Harvard Square in Cambridge. As I mentioned

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008