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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  21st Century Education? Food for thought.

  

  don't know know? 4. What type of environments are most conducive to ... out of the 20th century. So putting this in the context of your ... to develop the most in college? 2. What are the most important classes

  • by Bryan
  • December 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PrimeShooter An addictive factoring game.

  

  My friend Shefali '04 sent me a link to an addictive math nerd video game which actually relates to the name of this very blog. It's like factoring Tetris! Check out PrimeShooter: If you love math, you may want to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 play by play It slices and it dices.

  

  Her name is Betsy, and she got me to the finals of 2.007. This just goes to show you how lucky one individual can be. I actually thought I'd lost my round, and then when I went to go put my car down, they

  • by Bryan
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Saves The Pact God bless Stu's hairy face.

  

  Just when I thought I couldn't make it through another minute of the agony of yesterday's events, I walked into our weekly staff meeting to ... Officer and Director of the Educational Council, has become my new bearded

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  ago we did our traditional decorating of the tree. Just 2.8 miles from my house (according to Yahoo! Maps) is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  Here's something else to love about MIT! The first semester at MIT ... of A/B/C. As part of the flexible pass/no record grading option, you may designate up to 48 units to be graded on a pass/no record basis
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  The MIT Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) at MIT was founded to ... multidisciplinary approach. The Center's goal is to improve the ability to accurately predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate ... H. '20 is one of the students who has earned official MIT Pirate
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  men and women) and he introduced me to the sport. I watched one of his ... like my kind of sport. The lightweight men got to go to England this ... and back. It was really cool to see different parts of Boston and

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  you on campus. We get to find out which of you we'll be host ... 'll finally get to meet you in person. For those of you coming to CPW - be prepared for an amazing time, complete with the prospect of little to no

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  of a flower, the people of my orientation group seemed to blossom.  As ... less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice ... think of something fun to do. I know people who've regretted losing theirs

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  also tend to be the best ones. Because of the general lack of change in ... backlog of things to do grew larger. Friday, April 16th, in the Evening I ... smoothly—an opening meeting, and then off to rounds for the rest of the day

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  people to come just by buying a bunch of these cannoli and advertising them ... , and enjoy a wider sampling of pastries. From left to right: Brianna ... heads against the insides of the benches and whispering to each other. It

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  traditions that motivate a significant population of students to stay in their ... Random Hall also allow cats to wander the halls of floors designated as cat ... suite/floor/hall, or will they return to their rooms only at the end of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels ... of the murals, meaning if you put your phone up to the murals, an ... to a project that preserves some of that energy for this year's ad

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  Rhinoceros, learning how to use AutoCAD took a bit of time. Eventually I ... . The flowiness of the script works to portray the fluidity of our culture ... 4.500, Intro to Design Computing, my favorite class this semester, is

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course ... information. Why do we do this? Well, it's really just for us to keep track of ... "expressed interest" in the school, and they try to use that piece of data to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  updates (if you must). First of all, you do not need to send us anything ... , however, almost half of our domestic applicants chose to apply during Early ... acceptance during Early Action. One byproduct of this is that we were able to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  Charles River, just adjacent to East Campus. Now, I'm not much of a swimmer ... a part of East Campus rush. He spent a lot of time writing C code to make letters display, and his goal is to make a display board out of an

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  With all these applications, it's tough to find time to blog. There are lots of terrific applications! This will be a challenging year to ... conservationists to study the behavior of large populations, what marine biologists

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006